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in no. that .
No. Too injury prone.
Yes. Iconic figre in Asia
Don't care much. I do like egg rolls though
Curious what you guys has to say...
in no. that .
As a player? no.
As an icon, representative of the game, representative of a country, and player? yes.
He's had more pressure on him than anybody in NBA history imho. He had to represent China for the American fans, he has to represent the NBA for the Chinese fans, he had to prove himself to the almost impossibly high hype, and he has to not lick Wang ZhiZhi balls to be taken seriously by anybody.
The day he was drafted, he was already being penned as a failure for not being the greatest center of all time. He had American fans scrutinizing the out of him, he had a billion Chinese doing the same from the opposite perspective. Nobody else has had the pressure Yao Ming has had on his shoulders. What he's accomplished is remarkable, considering most young Americans would just cry and give up with that kind of pressure upon them.
It's a bunch of crap how China ed his career up by never letting him rest in the offseason. This discussion would likely be completely different had he been able to properly recover from his injuries through the NBA seasons, instead of being forced to play through them in China.
lol never letting him rest. Nothing made Yao his NBA team over by playing ball over the summer, that was a decision he made, and a decision that will tarnish his legacy.
let us proceed...
how bout you tell the Chinese goverment you won't be playing for them next summer, especially when they have the names, addresses, and every thing else associated with all of your friends and family.
I thought Yao was forced to play during summers. Just a presumption based on him always playing and the fact China is a communist dictatorship.
I woulda moved my family out of that pisshole within 1 year of being drafted.
tbh it's easy to say that when ur an american and haven't dealt with like that. take it from Rogue and the picklebreath brothers, it's harder than that.
When you say the pickle breath brothers, you mean two Koreans who currently live in American and don't have to worry about what the government back east thinks?
Ming cared more about his career than his NBA career, it's blatantly obvious. When he fractured his foot in 2008, the very first thing he had to say was "I hope I can still play in the Olympics." Nothing about how he let his team down or how he is pissed he won't be there for the playoffs. Nope, as long as he got that paycheck, he didn't give a about whether or not he was healthy for his NBA team. It was all about playing for the boys back east.
tbh if Mao's henchmen had a gun to ur mom's head, you'd say the same thing.
I highly doubt that comment was pressure from the Chinese government, and I highly doubt that if he commented on his he let his team down before commenting on how he still wants to play in the Olympics anything would have happened to his family.
MJ said Yao was definitely in...the top ten Chinese centers to play in the NBA.
This is a make or break year for Yao's legacy. If he can bounce back to something respectable after the surgery he'll have a shot, simply because of the immeasurable number of off the court factors that mono listed. I've been in Houston for his whole career and for all the pressure and he's taken from all sides at one time or another he's been a class act and true ambassador for the game.
He was.... breath doesn't know what the he's talking about.
It was one of the stipulations for him being allowed to come over here.
Yao could retire tomorrow and he'd be in the HOF one day.
The basketball HOF isn't like the football HOF or baseball HOF. Yao will get in on just his contributions to the global growth of the game alone.
no, he has size and skills, has no heart
I keep hearing about his "contribution"....
What did he really do, other than being a who played basketball at an all star level for a couple of seasons?
He has to win something, anything to be inducted to the HoF, or at least have superstar stats and accomplishments. He has neither, I don't think he is HoF material.
This.
If he hasn't accomplished anything on the court overseas or the Nba he will not be in the HOF.
Nope, haven't really seen him do much other than be a decent center who happens to be from China.
He will get into the HOF because of the way his presence globalized the game. Not because if his on the court achievements. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to be educated.
e has earned no honor at all and ain't having any. If u can find out another HOF that has no honor all his career, then it'll be OK to let e in tbh. I can hardly find any tbh. Even dirk has earned some personal honors like the NBA regular season MVP and numerous honors from Europe, while e hasn't gained none at all, not in america nor even in asia and his commie land.
if e really wants to escape the hole he will always get a way out. e just chose to act pussy and never got the balls to disobey the commies. it's only difficult for picklebreath brothers and rogue to escape free because they are obscure and hence are easily prosecuted by commies. e is different tbh. although e isn't really that good in the basketball court, he's overachieved world-wide reputation and i assume it would be quite easy for him to quit the commie country if he wanted. he just remained a pussy and didn't even make a try.
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