Still remember how difficult it was to sign Yao. Do you guys think all these are worth the trouble considering Yao injuries? Yep, at that time we don't have the luxuries to tell what the future hold. Neither do we know what will happen when Yao returns next season. Who knows? Rockets may achieve the ultimate goal. Yao Ming will need nine entities to sign off on any NBA contract before he can play in the league. "If any of these parties refuse to sign off, then Yao Ming cannot go," says Li Yao Min, general manager of the Shanghai Sharks, Yao's present club. The nine: 1. Yao Ming 2. Yao's parents 3. The Shanghai Sharks 4. The Chinese Basketball Association 5. The Shanghai Municipal Sports Management 6. The Chinese National Basketball Agency 7. The Chinese National Sports Commission 8. The NBA 9. The NBA team that drafts him
7/9 things u mentioned can be taken care of by $$$ so those are not the problem. I don't find a reason why Yao doesn't want to play in the states and i don't see why his parents wouldn't want him to play here neither. Thus, it's most likely that he will play in the states. i HOPE.
Daryl Morey bypasses all of those. Put him at the top. If Daryl wants Yao, then Yao has no choice but to play.
THANK YOU. Geez, it's not like the Rockets have to go back and ask the Shanghai Sharks if they'll let Yao out of his contract. Yao OWNS the Sharks now, for God's sake. The situation now and nine years ago aren't remotely comparable.
the OP realizes that yao was drafted 9 years ago, he made this thread remembering how difficult it was to acquire The Great Wall.
The shanghai sharks and shangai and china only needed to approve hwen he was drafted. So the only people are yao, the nba, and the rockets. all 3 will agree, yao will be in a rockets uniform for his entire career, gurantee it
1. Yao appears to like it in Houston from what most see and regularly still tries to attend Rockets games and functions. 2. Yao is how old right now? I can understand early twenties needing his parents permission, but if he can't sign a new contract when he is in his late 20s, has a wife and baby on the way, my man has issues. 3. He owns the team now. 4. See the previously listed, they will want him to keep earning money. 5. Legit, if he is still with them. 6. Legit, although I doubt they will care if he still keeps playing their national games for international competitions. 7. See the previous. 8. Legit, but Stern loves internationall money just as much as National cash. 9. Unless he gets another season ending injury, I doubt that the Rockets would turn him down for anything, short of the reincarnation of Hakeem or Micheal Jordan.
This thread is dumb and the subsequent replies where posters miss the entire point of the thread is even funnier. Yes it is worth it. Without Yao, there would be no Tmac (and his good seasons with us) and no present team, which we all love.
I don't see the point of this thread. We all know what was required to get him here the first time, so I dont see why bring it up now since what he had to do PRIOR to joining means absolutely nothing in regards to what it will take to extend(or re-sign) his contract. The rest of your premise could very easily fit into the existing Yao threads. so with that in mind plus the general failure of half the respondents to realize that the list is a past-tense list and means absolutely nothing to us in current day.
