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shawn79

07-08-2011, 10:29 AM

Houston Rockets center Yao Ming has decided to retire after nine NBA seasons, Yahoo! Sports and the Houston Chronicle have reported, citing league sources.

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Yao's contract had expired after this past season with the Rockets, who have missed the playoffs the last two seasons.

They played nearly all of that time without Yao as he battled various injuries. He was limited to five games last season after missing all of 2009-10.

"We'd all be really happy if Yao comes back to play, and I hope he can," new Rockets coach Kevin McHale said when he was introduced last month. "I think he'll give it his best shot. His body is going to dictate if he can come back and play. That's all going to be laid out in the future.

"But who wouldn't like Yao Ming, a big guy who can really make shots, just a huge force in the middle? That's out of my control. We'll see where that goes."

In May, Yao said his surgically repaired left ankle was healing properly and he wanted to remain with the Rockets.

But Yao, who had surgery in January, said he wouldn't know until this summer if he'd be able to play again. He became a restricted free agent July 1.

Yao would finish with a 19 points-per-game average with 9.2 rebounds in his seven-plus seasons.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

biggest international NBA icon will make his retirement :okay:

:fuckthatshit:

Porschedog

07-08-2011, 10:37 AM

Damn I am going to miss Yao =[
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AlphaKappa

07-08-2011, 10:49 AM

Yao Ming still plays basketball? :fuckthatshit:

SkinnyPupp

07-08-2011, 10:52 AM

Yao Ming still plays basketball? :fuckthatshit:

Gumby

07-08-2011, 10:58 AM

Yao Ming still plays basketball? :fuckthatshit:

sonick

07-08-2011, 11:10 AM

Yao Ming steel pray basketbarl? :fuckthatshit:

MWR34

07-08-2011, 11:45 AM

:fuckthatshit:steel pray brasketbawl?:fuckthatshit:

CRS

07-08-2011, 11:49 AM

Yao Ming still plays 籃球? :fuckthatshit:

411ken

07-08-2011, 11:53 AM

姚明還是打籃球？ :fuckthatshit:

TRDood

07-08-2011, 11:56 AM

姚明还是打篮球? :fuckthatshit:

jaguar604

07-08-2011, 11:57 AM

Basketball still plays Yao Ming? :fuckthatshit: :fulloffuck:

K.Dubz

07-08-2011, 12:03 PM

:fuckthatshit:

StealthFighter

07-08-2011, 12:05 PM

c-c-c-ombobreaker:troll:

RacePace

07-08-2011, 12:28 PM

he's probably more well known for this meme now :fuckthatshit:

shawn79

07-08-2011, 12:38 PM

Groot

07-08-2011, 12:47 PM

http://webservice.imagesauce.net/image/754995/400x.jpg
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LsquareD

07-08-2011, 12:56 PM

http://pictureschat.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/yao-funny.jpg

shawn79

07-08-2011, 12:59 PM

Yao ming best free throw percentage center ever?

i bet he will come out of retirement in a yr or so to join a contending team for a championship ring.

07-08-2011, 01:02 PM

YAo still runs restaurant in china?

lol

shawn79

07-08-2011, 01:03 PM

he runs china pretty much...

:fuckthatshit:

604nguyen

07-08-2011, 01:07 PM

basketball?!

http://assets.diylol.com/hfs/ef5/32c/b1d/resized/yao-ming-meme-generator-fuck-that-shit-fe9d08.jpg

strykn

07-08-2011, 01:08 PM

:fuckthatshit:

nosaj

07-08-2011, 01:11 PM

dayum yao!
maybe he will just retire from nba and plays for Team China?

found this pic pretty funny :rofl:

http://pinoyambisyoso.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/yao-ming-tallest-nba-player.jpg

shawn79

07-08-2011, 01:17 PM

No he will be back in the nba next season at the dunk competition for new players to dunk over him.:troll:

:fuckthatshit:

dachinesedude

07-08-2011, 01:18 PM

its a shame, cuz he was actually really good, very entertaining to watch

too bad he cant jump...not like he needs to though

shenmecar

07-08-2011, 02:04 PM

:fuckthatshit:

you!

07-08-2011, 02:47 PM

whos yao ming

you!

07-08-2011, 02:49 PM

:fuckthatshit:

Qmx323

07-08-2011, 03:26 PM

http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/political-pictures-yao-ming-china-olympics-ball-drops.jpg

:fuckthatshit::okay:

shawn79

07-08-2011, 04:44 PM

whos yao ming

this guy ----> :fuckthatshit:

Vansterdam

07-08-2011, 04:53 PM

:fuckthatshit:

:fuckthatshit:

:fuckthatshit:

Stealthy

07-08-2011, 04:56 PM

Basketball?
:fuckthatshit:

nsmb

07-08-2011, 06:44 PM

basketball...

http://i.min.us/imv8y2.png

SkinnyPupp

07-08-2011, 07:53 PM

yao ming made a larger impact than jordan did promoting the nba world wide

most nba all star votes ever and largest partner deals? I read an article about it how he will still be making a fortune if he retires now... Fans in china feel ashamed wearing his jersey from what i heard :okay:

Every post must end with :fuckthatshit: to contribute to our beloved yao ming.
Yao Ming didn't do shit to promote NBA worldwide. He is very well known in China, but they don't give a shit about NBA, they like Yao Ming. In fact after his retirement from NBA, he will probably return to China and become an even bigger star doing whatever...

And "worldwide".... come on. Ask anyone in Europe or Australia or Brazil or Asia outside China, who is more familiar - Yao Ming or Michael Jordan...

dlo

07-08-2011, 08:06 PM

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Gumby

07-08-2011, 09:13 PM

AzNightmare

07-08-2011, 09:13 PM

damn. must be the injuries?
I don't follow NBA, but he had a pretty short career.

But he can pretty much live off with all the money he has now
:fuckthatshit:

SkinnyPupp

07-08-2011, 09:47 PM

Are you sure about that? Isn't basketball huge in China?
Not from what I can tell. Yao Ming is huge though, you see him everywhere. But never wearing a (whatever team he plays on) jersey

It is certainly bigger than it was before Yao Ming though, that is for sure! And surely bigger than any other American league.

CorneringArtist

07-08-2011, 10:22 PM

Sucks to see him go, but he's probably gonna dip into major endorsement deals in China, and possibly coach a la Michael Jordan?

oh, and to keep with the meme see <-

StylinRed

07-09-2011, 12:05 AM

:fuckthatshit: :fulloffuck:

http://news.stareastasia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/jackie-yao-ming.jpg

Ronin

07-09-2011, 12:06 AM

Wait, that "Fuck That Shit" meme guy plays basketball?

Ikkaku

07-09-2011, 01:18 AM

Houston Rockets were pretty big in China, firstly because of Yao Ming, and then somehow of all people -- Shane Battier became a superstar there (for a bit, but not anymore).

1exotic

07-09-2011, 01:25 AM

:fuckthatshit:

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fetched

07-09-2011, 02:13 AM

SkinnyPupp

07-09-2011, 03:48 AM

FAIL

There is more people in China that watches NBA (especially playoffs) than anywhere in the world, With Yao Ming or not, since he hasn't played very often for the last couple of years.

Please stop with your misinformation about China lol ..

There is NBA games everyday, plus tons of NBA variety shows and reports. :speechless: I go to pubs to watch regular NBA games all the time, and yes, with other chinamen

Michael Jordan made NBA what it is in China. Not Yao ming
Ratings for Rockets games are high in China. I guess because of Michael Jordan? Rockets get a lot of sponsorship from China, what about the other teams? How many Chinese sponsors followed Michael Jordan's teams? None.

Of course there is an overall impact (like I said) but nothing matters as much as Yao Ming.

Like I said, NBA is easily the most popular american league in China, because of Yao Ming (not Michael Jordan). So that is why the pubs you go to are playing NBA games instead of, say, NFL or NHL.

So... umm what was all your horn tooting about, with bolded "FAIL" and all that nonsense? You pretty much reiterated what I said (unintentionally which is funny), and spouted off more bullshit about "failing" and stopping with my "misinformation". The only part where you are really wrong is the one part that you disagreed with me on.

So yeah. :fuckthatshit:

goo3

07-09-2011, 05:15 AM

shame he's done

you have to wonder if china didn't mismanage him early in his career, would he still be playing

:fuckthatshit:

XplicitLuder

07-09-2011, 08:57 AM

:fuckthatshit::fuckthatshit: He'll come back, they always do lool jk

nlo

07-09-2011, 10:06 AM

I haven't heard about Yao Ming for a long time....:fuckthatshit:

MoBettah

07-09-2011, 10:20 AM

Mad respect for Yao, the man carried a burden that few people could even fathom and did so with humility, character and honor.

How many nba stars can you say that about these days?

AlphaKappa

07-09-2011, 10:30 AM

kobe bryant :fuckthatshit:

twitchyzero

07-09-2011, 10:36 AM

i said this somewhere else, someone his height will benefit from retiring early and enjoy life...since he'll probably have a shorter lifespan :fuckthatshit:

G-spec

07-09-2011, 02:32 PM

Yao Ming for a guy his height was an incredible player, such good soft hands good shooter good at everything except jumping, but you cant blame him for that...

All this Jordan China talk just reminded me, i was watching the '86 dunk contest on nba tv the other day and heard the funniest fckin thing in a while....

MJ goes up for his baseline windmill and the commentator goes, "MJ with what I call the Chinese Superman dunk" I'm trying to process that, failing... then the guy finishes what he was saying "You see how he takes off SLANTED and hits the superman pose while in the air"

haha, so racist but too funny, that shit wouldnt fly today for sure
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MR_BIGGS

07-09-2011, 08:21 PM

Yao was an international basketball star - ESPN (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=adande_ja&page=yaoretired-110708)

Forgive my limited frame of reference for a person of such global impact on the basketball scene, but all my thoughts on Yao Ming keep coming back to events at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Maybe that's a true measure of how grand the scale of Yao was, that so many small moments could essentially summarize the man, the player, the marketing phenomenon.

To begin with, Staples Center was the first place I ever saw Yao in person. It's a moment that sticks with me like the first time I saw the Eiffel Tower. Some things just need to be witnessed yourself, and Yao is one of them. It was Nov. 17, 2003. (That also happened to be the first time Yao scored more than 19 points in an NBA game, which led to this unusual method of honoring a bet by Charles Barkley.)
A couple of hours before the Rockets played the Lakers, Yao was shooting jumpers on the court, and I stopped in my tracks to marvel at just how tall a human being he was. I covered Gheorghe Muresan on the Washington Bullets before. Muresan was 7-foot-7. But Muresan moved awkwardly, like those stop-motion-animation monsters in the "Jason and the Argonauts" movies. Yao was smoother than Muresan, but thicker than the freakishly thin Shawn Bradley and Manute Bol. He was big, yet normal, if that makes sense, and that's what made him so unusual.

He was so tall that even the 7-foot-2, 300-whatever-pounds Shaquille O'Neal said: "That's a big dude."

Yao brought out the worst and the best in Shaq. The worst was when O'Neal went on television and used a cheesy kung fu movie dialect to issue a challenge to Yao. The best came the first time they squared off in the playoffs (at Staples Center, of course) and O'Neal played the most inspired defense I've ever seen from him. He jumped out on screens, recovered on pick-and-rolls, dedicated himself to preventing Yao from being a factor and held him to 10 points on 4-for-11 shooting. It was actually a sign of respect from Shaq, that he took Yao seriously enough to exert maximum effort.

Shaq respected Yao because Yao was a big man who relied on skill in addition to size, but never to the point he set up shop 20 feet from the basket. The NBA needed more of those players, just as the NBA needed more stars from China. Yao did his part -- more than his part, really -- in establishing the connection between the league and the most populated country in the world.

Which brings us to his legacy. Another notable Yao Ming Staples Center memory came when Yao wasn't even playing. It was about an hour before this year's All-Star Game, and the media interview room was taken over by Sprite's China division. There was Sprite signage everywhere, TV monitors and speakers blaring loud music. There was a crowd of Chinese journalists. Then out came Kobe Bryant, who sat down and took questions from a moderator, all to promote an ad campaign with Taiwanese star Jay Chou.

I can't imagine Kobe doing any other corporate promotion right before the All-Star Game, not even for Nike. But that's how much these players value Chinese endorsements. We've seen players such as Steve Nash and Baron Davis sign deals with Chinese shoe companies. Maybe these things would have happened eventually without Yao. But not as quickly, and not for as much money.

Yao doesn't get credit for taking the NBA overseas. You can thank Detlef Schrempf, Drazen Petrovic, Vlade Divac, Toni Kukoc and the Dream Team's triumphant run through Barcelona for that. But Yao certainly gave the league entrée to Asia. For now there's a trade imbalance, with more Americans heading to China to seek profits than Chinese players entering the NBA for their own benefits. Maybe it will take 19 years after Yao for his influence to come to fruition the way the Dream Team was reflected in the number of foreigners selected in this year's draft.

Yao will always be the precedent. Not only because he was the first foreign player selected with the No. 1 overall pick, but because of the way he blasted through any American cultural ignorance and won a place in our hearts with his sense of humor.

Just as his career was cut short because his body kept breaking down, I'm disappointed we didn't get the full scope of his jokes because of the language barrier, despite his rapid acclimation to English.

I'll leave with one more impression of Yao I picked up at Staples Center, albeit one I found on a quote sheet laying on a table in the media room during the 2004 All-Star Weekend in L.A.

MR_BIGGS

07-10-2011, 11:42 AM

While we are on the MJ Yao Ming topic:fuckthatshit:

YouTube - ‪*Rare* Yao Ming "blocks" Michael jordan(is actually a goaltend)‬&rlm;

Wongtouski

07-10-2011, 01:07 PM

Surprised no one has posted this yet.

Yao Ming Song

Kobe´s reaction to the song

GLOW

07-10-2011, 05:38 PM

i wonder if he still plays world of warcraft

YouTube - ‪Yao Ming vs Big Bad Tauren Warrior‬&rlm;

he had a good career. hope to see more quality nba players come out of china.

:fuckthatshit::fuckthatshit::fuckthatshit:

AlphaKappa

07-11-2011, 10:17 AM

^ :fuckthatshit:

7seven

07-11-2011, 11:43 AM

I actually hated Yao because anytime anyone would ask if I followed the NBA, after I respond not as much as I used to but occasionally, they would without fail say, you must be a Yao Ming fan just because I'm asian :facepalm:

asahai69

07-11-2011, 12:39 PM

AlphaKappa

07-11-2011, 12:42 PM

i love the meme more than basketball

:fuckthatshit:

GLOW

07-11-2011, 12:57 PM

If lebron should be pissed at anyone. He should be pissed at yao ming. They won the same amout of championships. Yet yao is still loved by a billion +
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that's cuz yao is humble, a nice guy, and isn't selfish :troll:

oh, and he can actually hit jump shots when needed :fuckthatshit:

Kickit604

07-11-2011, 12:58 PM

gonna miss yao!:fuckthatshit:

bigG

07-11-2011, 03:04 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6lUJ3qIUCQ
:fuckthatshit::fuckthatshit:

EmperorIS

07-12-2011, 12:22 AM

in for :fuckthatshit:

goo3

07-12-2011, 02:28 AM

Yao.. you funny :fuckthatshit:

shawn79

07-12-2011, 12:18 PM

:fuckthatshit:

AlphaKappa

07-12-2011, 12:37 PM

free posts :fuckthatshit:

411ken

07-13-2011, 07:48 AM

:Popcorn

:fuckthatshit:

:5shots:

Vansterdam

07-20-2011, 05:40 AM

he just announced his retirement

SkinnyPupp

07-23-2011, 03:41 AM

This thread is now about Yao Ming :thumbsup:

http://natart.weebly.com/uploads/3/2/3/7/3237393/3395608.jpeg

Vansterdam

07-23-2011, 04:50 AM

:fuckthatshit:

GLOW

07-23-2011, 05:24 AM

speaking of classy...you know who's classy? yao ming

:fuckthatshit:

SkinnyPupp

07-23-2011, 05:28 AM

Keep it on topic, please. I deleted the posts because this thread was ruined beyond hope. A misunderstanding on both sides led to this mess. Let's let the thread continue on topic. If you want, I don't mind addressing comments in PM, as there still seems to be some major misinterpretations going on for some reason. :thumbsup:

Now back to the topic: :fuckthatshit:

ChaKo

07-25-2011, 11:22 PM

Yao Ming didn't do shit to promote NBA worldwide. He is very well known in China, but they don't give a shit about NBA, they like Yao Ming. In fact after his retirement from NBA, he will probably return to China and become an even bigger star doing whatever...

And "worldwide".... come on. Ask anyone in Europe or Australia or Brazil or Asia outside China, who is more familiar - Yao Ming or Michael Jordan...

These are only a few examples, but most of what I've read, and my experience in China, seems to suggest otherwise. I'm not saying Jordan is bigger than Yao in China, but to say that they don't care about the NBA? The NBA was being televised in China before Yao's arrival and people line the streets just to get a glimpse of Kobe Bryant.

The NBA Has Become A Leading Export to China (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/14/AR2006021401827.html)

"Yao generated a lot of attention for basketball among his countrymen, but Cheong said American players have always enjoyed a popularity here independent of national pride in Yao's achievements. Recognition surveys back in the 1990s, she noted, showed Michael Jordan outranked even Zhou Enlai, the revolutionary hero and companion of Mao Zedong who figures prominently in Chinese schoolbooks."

NBA IN CHINA - China | Facts and Details (http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=1041&catid=12&subcatid=78)

"Michael Jordan is still a household name in China. In one popularity poll he ranked higher than Mao. Many Chinese will tell you that his team, the Chicago "Red Oxen," is their favorite NBA team. Allen Iverson is also very popular.

There is a Nike-sponsored LeBron James Museum in Shanghai.

The top-selling NBA jerseys in China in 2007-2008 were: 1) Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers; 2) Kevin Gannett, Boston Celtics; 3) Tracy McGrady, Houston Rockets; 4) Paul Pierce, Boston Celtics; 5) Allen Iverson, Denver Nuggets; 6) Gilbert Arenas, Washington Wizards; 7) LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers; 8) Dwayne Wade, Miami Heat; 9) Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic; 10) Yao Ming, Houston Rockets. Many thought that Yao Ming only managed 10th because most fans had purchased his jersey some time ago."