CBA offical said :"Yao will be back with China NT after the playoffs"

As I said, if Yao don't want to spend his whole summer playing those garbage games, speak himself! It is not about playing for the honor of the country, it is about wasting life playing for these meaningless games.

Don't always try to be a good baby. Fight for yourself for once. why do others have to fight for you then?

 

That's what I was thinking.

 

How can I apply to join that system?

jk

 

This definitely has some to do with the way NBA drafting player across the world.

In the world soccer system, the new club “PAY” to the old club to get a player. Think about it, if you spend 10 years or even more to train or grow a professional player, I say it makes sense to get some pay back to justify the investment otherwise smaller and poorer club will die sooner or later.

Then there is NBA, who doesn’t want to share its benefits at all. More than often you hear the NBA official BS something it’s up to the player to get the agreement from their original club or nations to let go. What can a player do, besides reaching some sort of agreements? Why cannot NBA pay CNT a one time deal three years ago and everyone is clear that there is no future obligation what’s so ever.

And people, stop bragging how greedy CNT is, I mean maybe they are, but at least they helped growing Yao in his earlier year, now you tell me what did Uncle Sam do to get at least 28% from Yao’s income?

 

No you dont. You keep your job if you suck. Others keeps their job if they are suck-er than you. And guess what, you guys get paid the same. So this is even not a good system for the slackers.

 

Bull crap.
In your logic, we all should work for the rice farm, because they feed us. Yao has paid his dues, where is the end. How do you measure sacrifice? No you cant. So this bull crap. Yao has paid big back to the CNT. That's it.

 

He is not kidding. According to various Yao book and Yao's autobiography, the sports official did pick the kids that are tall and give you a choice if you want to be train to be a bball player, if you chose so, you entered a life of many practices and training and they try to make you live and breath bball and while you were there you were being fed the nationalistic thought that "your country develop you, you should be grateful and play for the glory of the country". They don't pick the kid with most talent, they pick the kid with the most height.

 

I know, that is why I said "JK"

 

Funny. How else do you expect sports officials to pick talents while they are 7, other than growth potentials? And these talents WERE given a choice. But the given the choice part basically implied they didn't choose your career.

 

Well, you did pay at the grocery story, didn't you? You can't just take the rice away by saying "you are fulfilling the rice's purpose"

Guess what, NBA did just that.

Also, the “Yao has paid due” part is rather bogus. Let alone how will you measure this, what’s his due anyway? If Yao announces an earlier retirement today, will he be the most hated rocket ever in this board?

I think he’s proud to play for CNT. If that’s what he chooses to do, so be it. We like him to win some championship for rockets, but you can just blame CNT for this, they probably thought the entire rocket organization is just a training camp for Yao to get future success with their national basket ball team. And that’s probably nothing wrong if you were them.

 

If you're really asking, there's a lot of things besides height you can consider, for example: court sense, court vision, ability to pick up plays quickly, strong passion and desire to win, raw atheletic ability such as jumping/leaping ability, etc etc...

 

What somebody has described about chinese selection is exactly what the french, spanish, italian, belgian and yougoslavian countries do.

Very tall boys & grils are tracked and trained in special schools as young as the age of 9.

Shorter players are selected in national teams based on talent later, here too as young as 14 (aka Tony Parker) to play at a professional, or semi-professionnal level ( at that level, by boat loads, that is how the smaller clubs make a living: by selling young talents to bigger clubs / teams). For example: I was sold 2000 dollars to a bigger club / team , talk about relativity!

You have junior and cadets national team for this age groups but some quickly play in senior teams if they are good enough.

I know the USA is the beacon of the freewold and defender of the universe but please cut China some slack, they can (and are) very good capitalists too as your bufget deficit probably indicates.

If you can be proud and willing to represent and play for your country, why can't you allow Yao to be proud of doing so to?

Finally, who invested the most on Yao based on return? Who took the biggest risk and who makes the most money? The NBA or the chinese government?

If you say the NBA, consider how easy it would have been for China to prevent Yao from being in the USA based on the Wang experience...

Sharing is a wonderfull thing.

 

Couldn't agree more. The only issue here is how to get the most out of this "training camp", some rest and less unimportant games will help in the long run. Taking minimum involvement for Asian games will be good for Yao and have the least impact to CNT compared to other international games.

 

cba official better watch his mouth or it'll be goldenstate or the la clippers he'll be making demands to. cba official demands yao come back and train with nt for asian championship team so they can show up new zealand and istanbul and korea? well cba official has another thing coming. cba official got a big mouth. and i don't like big mouths. never have, never will. cba official 'after the playoffs' doesn't this scoundrel mean after the finals? and what about the parade, the championship parade. will yao ming allowed to stay for that, will that be ok with this oficial cba dude? and can Yao take a piss sometime in between then cba official? this ******* commie cba official can shove his demands up his ass. Yao Ming is ours. we own him. not you. he is a houstonian now - you sucker.

 

Come on, Stoke... I'd be happy if Yao just owned himself.

 

calm down, i thought you were going to have a Texas Stroke.

 

yes he does. but communities comes before country. and yao ming is a houstonian first, chinese national second. thats the way it is around here. communities are what make the world go 'round. and yao ming owes it to the community which is an extension of himself to take a rest in the summer. see, communities care, understand the soul of a man and his true needs, while big goverments and countries don't, they think like machines. yao ming owes it to his soul and community to kick back watch his business thrive and stretch out a little. he can keep up with the national team and send them advice on how to play by fax.

 

For all the contribution Yao made for National team and Chinese people, one would think that it's only natural that the Chinese officials would want to protect their most valued athelet, and at least considered Yao's input on the matter. To these officials, Yao was just a property they owned, so it's not Yao's personal decision as to wether or not he wants to play these tournaments. As long as your country called on you, Yao you got to go. Yao has said in the Houston Chronicle he would like to rest a bit for the summer and train here, no doubt chinese officials knew that, they still pull that sht. There's nothing good can come out of this, forcing Yao to play in stupid tournaments that doesn't mean much.

(Don't bother telling me Yao wants to play because he did not, and Yao sees the stupidity in that)

I respect Yao for his loyalty to his country, for that loyalty I think Yao earn the right to stay and rest if he chose to.

Chinese sports officials are gonna take a lot of heat come summer time for forcing a injured Yao to play and deal a detrimental blow to Yao's development as a player.

 

The thing pissed me off most is it sounds like Yao does not have a choice but to go because Chinese national team owned him despite Yao himself expressed desire to stay and rest and improve his game here in Houston.

 

Damn....people. We are lucky that they let Yao come over here in the first place. I agree that he would be a better player if he could learn in the offseason. This is part of his agreement and loyalty to a country he loves. Get over it. I wish it would but don't think it's going to change. By the way this is like the 1,234,243rd thread about this.