LOL I knew the twist was coming and I was waiting for it That guy said Lin leads the lead amongst GUARDS in BLOCKS. He was totally busted for being a liar. And then the twist. No mention of per 48 or PG or SG So is Lin a PG or a SG for the hornets?
CometsWin the proponent of Affirmative Action based on skin color rather than income, is a blind racist. Denigrating Houston Rockets Franchise cornerstone Yao Ming for Orlando Magic's Dwight Howard makes him a fake Rockets fan, or just blinded by racial tendencies.
So, somehow, him being 3rd for PG's and 6th for SG's REGARDLESS of playing time is a negative? And he plays both depending on who else is on the court.
You should go to Rucker park and call everyone not supportive of Affirmative Action based on the color of their skin, self-hating Uncle Toms.
Yao Ming was the exact opposite of Jeremy Lin. Basketball wise, he's an legit allstar and starter for many years Yao didn't grow up privileged like Jeremy Lin in Palo Alto with parents being rich engineers in Silicon Valley. Lin's only responsibility was to God and his NBA team. Yao had to deal with God, the NBA, the USA, and China. Yao mentioned that he will forever be a Houstonian, Lin has said he's always been a California boy During the debates I've had with the LOF, they claim that Yao and Jeremy Lin are not the same because Jeremy is Asian and had it worse than Yao. Yao is a foreigner. Foreigners have it worse. Lin was teased by rich kids in California. Oh boo hoo. Yao had to get an interpreter when he came here while Jeremy Lin fully understands the Michael W Smith and Amy Grant music he's blasting on his Ipod. Yao won respect by his game, not his hair.
Let me also add, Yao Ming had fantastic personality and was really funny. he was really witty and also cracked jokes when he was Inside the NBA with Charles and Kenny. He was media friendly, he had great quotes. Jeremy Lin's personality is exactly you get from a sheltered church going rich kid. It doesn't matter to his core fans because they don't see his personality.
In terms of basketball, Lin definitely had it tougher than Yao. Yao was the child of two Chinese National Team players and from a very early age was provided with all the opportunity to develop by the Chinese sports bureau, getting him on a CBA team as a teenager and given all the resources needed to make him China's best. Lin, on the other hand, was a skinny little kid who learned basketball from his middle-aged father and had to deal with all the barriers that come with being that skinny Asian kid on the playgrounds and schools that the majority of Asian-American kids face. You could even say that his Palo Alto upbringing by "rich" (not really) Silicon Valley engineers hurt his basketball development, because academics was the priority (whereas for Yao and countless other athletes in China's national sports programs had little/no academics to worry about)...since professional sports was pretty much a pipe dream for a middle-class Asian-American kid, the option to quit and focus on a white-collar career was always present. So the idea that Yao's road to the NBA was "easier" than Jeremy's is flat out false. Yao had an entire country's support to get him here, and Jeremy only had the support of his family. Thankfully for Yao, his talent and his character made him a success here. Other Chinese players, like Wang Zhi-Zhi and Yi Jianlian did not succeed in the NBA because although they had great athletic skills and basketball talent, they did not have the drive and character to make it. Jeremy is making it in the NBA not because of his talent/skill (probably average at best), but because of his drive and his character. Is he an all-star? No...but he's a solid player and a great teammate (for teammates that care about team). And given the right set of circumstances (coach, system, teammates, etc), he has shown that he can be great. Hopefully he will get that opportunity again, but even if he doesn't, he has proven that he is a legitimate NBA player who can help his team win.
Plus Yao was also a true Rocket. we saw him grow from the #1 pick , a skinny kid from china who could hardly speak english, to someone who we proudly love a Rocket great Yao called Houston his second home , he's true to Clutch City and we were true to him. Lin wasn't true.
Lin absolutely wanted to make Houston his home. When he came to the team, he set up an organization to help local communities and had a strong desire to be a part of it. Not his fault the team decided to trade him away.
Agreed, Yao was just a awesome human being and a great Rocket. why are we comparing Lin with Yao? They shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence unless the sentence is this one.
You must not have seen the ones he did when he first came to the NBA. He had no production team then. And despite what his videos may have indicated, he hasn't changed, bro...
surely you can't be serious... Yao had the pressure and weight of an entire country being the #1! in a draft. Lin was a undrafted summer league addition. Yao also had to be politically savvy. He wasn't just a basketball player but an ambassador. You definitely seem to have forgotten that not everyone was behind yao and supporting him to come here. The CBA, Govt, etc all had opinions and restrictions of Yao declaring for the draft. Anyways again yao and lin shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence. Not a Lin hater here by any stretch but Yao is a Rocket hall of famer.
They both had to overcome tremendous obstacles. (As did every other single NBA player or professional athlete). No one makes it to the professional level without beating a million-to-one odds. The difference is, Yao becoming a professional ball player was NEVER in question. He was groomed to be a basketball player since a child. If he did not make it to the NBA, he would have at the very least played in the CBA and for the Chinese National Team. Jeremy Lin didn't get any D1 college scholarships, and only was guaranteed a starting spot from non-athletic scholarship Harvard. He nearly had to give up playing basketball, for real life practical reasons. That's a key difference and if you don't see it, you're living in fantasy world.
Please read what I said. I said the road TO the NBA was harder for Lin...not his time IN the NBA. And yes, not everyone was behind Yao coming to the NBA...but he had a lot of people/organizations that did support him to come. Lin basically had to do it by himself...
