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Yao Ming Mania: Translation of Sports Illustrated (China) article on Yao’s Sportsman of the Year award

  • Zoe · 2 years ago
    Dear John:

    Thanks for bringing this wonderful article to our attention - It has been a while to read an article like this. This remind us why we fans love him - it is not only because of basketball. Indeed, he brings a fresh air to the NBA. It is true he may never win an Olympic Gold in his career as a basketball player, but he still has the opportunity to win a gold as a coach; he may or may never win an NBA title if he stays at Houston for his entire career, but he may win a Nobel Peace Prize, just as Gore.

    This article and this award are specially important at this moment to Yao Ming and his fans, as Yao Ming has been experiencing some of the most difficult points of his NBA career recently.
  • pryuen · 2 years ago
    John

    Thank you very much for that nicely written article from Mary Nicole Nazzaro on Sports Illustrated. I'm deeply impressed about what she wrote and the nice comments from every of the Rockets and Steve Nash about Yao Ming.

    BTW, I guess you should say the original instead of the translated article. Most of the articles in Sports Illustrated China are either translated articles from Sports Illustrated or written by expat reporters that worked for Sports Illustrated China. I think Mary Nicole Nazzaro is one of those. And she is the lady that stood by Yao Ming in one of those photos that I posted in the thread.

    Best regards
    Raymond
  • Nancy Foster · 2 years ago
    Thanks for posting this wonderful article about a wonderful man. Yao really is something special and it's good to see his accomplishments acknowledged. To me, he's more than just a tall Chinese basketball player, he's Yao Ming -- international citizen of goodwill and all around nice guy. The world could use more like him.
  • aynoo · 2 years ago
    He tells Yao’s fans not to expect Yao’s numbers to increase so much as his efficiency, now that Adelman’s faster, more fluid offense is giving Yao the opportunity to shoot from the field and make more assists.========

    no body cares much about assists for a center. People care about the hype- so when YAO number keeps going up and up especially when he is in his prime there is more fan and more hype. When his number decrease, people will think he is descending. But he is just getting started and in his prime so why would he descend?

    adelman's system sucks