Yao Ming Got D@ssed and Bashed on Washington Times

19.9 points, 9.0 rebounds .. its not bad at all.. and deserves the all star if u count his presence in the game. If u want to talk about overpaid or overrated talk about players like K-Mart!!!

 

Perhaps that is true but it doesn't change the fact that the article is horribly written. The writer is comparing apples and oranges here. WTF does an eastern conference guard and forward have to do with a western conference center?

 

Washington Times is owned by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who claimed to be second coming of Messiah.

 

Washington Times always do these China bashing things based on false information. Yao, as a famous Chinese NBA player, become one of their attacking target naturally. The Boss of the news paper is a crazy anti-China guy.

 

somewhat accurate. washington times is a very conservative-leaning newspaper--compare it to fox news corporation/murdoch. if you stick with the hard news, generally speaking, you'll get roughly the same info as the moderate/left-leaning news sources. the paper is notorious for its china bashing when it comes to editorials and what not. but that's no surprise. it's a legitimate publication, although it's pretty sad when you compare it to the washingtonpost in terms of writing quality and scope of coverage.

on the other hand, the new york post (owned by murdoch) doesn't pretend to be an objective source of news. it's a tabloid, both in terms of physical presentation and content. the writing quality is horrible, and the news pieces are written in the same tone as columns. incredible.

i did an some informal observation when i lived in new york, by using stereotypes on the subway. my blanket conclusions and stereotypes: "native"/working class new yorkers read the post and daily news (more local based and conservative)--few people outside of manhattan seem to buy the times. it's readership is national. the only people reading the times were white collar workers and young transients/hipsters (more left-leaning). people read what they know they will agree with--it makes the day go faster.

 

The Fact he put Jamison is a foot shorter but has the same numbers as Yao.

He failed to mention that this is Jamison's 8th year. He also failed to talk about the East being weaker, the fact no fouls are called on Yao, the fact Jamison plays 40 MPG vs Yao's 33 MPG. Also about voting if you are just a good Forward or Guard that won't get you into the All Star Game because there are just way too many (forwards: Bron, Jermaine O'Neal, Pierce, Rasheed Wallace, Chris Bosh, Dwight Howard, Maybe even Tayshaun Prince all deserve a bid over Jamison). Now just being a good center will because I mean basically its Yao, Camby, Brad Miller are only 3 real canidates to actually contend for a chance at center in the West.

This guy is a moron... his team blows so he needs something to get angry about.

 

This article is terrible, and devoid of logic. I don't get the connection between the Wizards and Yao. I give this article a great big WTF?

THAT PRETTY MUCH SUMS IT UP, I AGREE THAT THE ALL STAR BALLOTING DOES NOT YIELD THE BEST PLAYER AT THEIR RESPECTIVE POSITIONS EVERY YEAR, BUT THIS GUYS CRITICISM IS JUST IDIOTIC.
ARENAS IS SIMPLY NOT AMONG THE TOP FIVE GUARDS IN THE EAST, HE'S VERY GOOD BUT HE IS NOT BETTER THAN IVERSON, LEBRON, WADE, OR EVEN KIDD IN MY OPINION. HE'S IN THAT SECOND TIER WITH FRANCIS, AND MARBURY AND THAT'S WHY HE WON'T MAKE THE ALL STAR TEAM NOT BECAUSE OF YAO AND A BILLION CHINESE. BOTTOM LINE INJURED OR NOT, YAO IS THE BEST CENTER IN THE WEST AND HE DESERVES TO START.

 

Wow, thanx pryuen for clearing that up, cause I really didn't already not know that. U should have been this guys editor.

 

Stephen A. Smith is an AfroCentric person. That's his shtick, if you're not black, he wont have anything to say about you unless you try to be a wigga or something. I think most people recognize his act for what it is, which is probably why his talkshow has like a sub 1 Nielsen rating.

 

PERPETUAL = ALWAYS. You start a sentence talking about the year 2001, and then use PERPETUAL, unless your grammar is terrible, it means you're talking aobut the time period between then and now.

Why don't you get your facts straight instead?

 

like i said, the washington times readership is largely very conservative, especially in terms of foreign policy and relations with china. they've been bashing on yao ever since he became a public figure--their position is one of future confrontation with china, and the yao articles are only small glimpses of that.

 

Wonder what this guy thinks of Grant Hill.

 

HUH?

Actually, I think 100% of Mack's responses make sense in context of the article.

He was pointing out that the entire article was irrelevant. As Mack said, comparing Eastern conference all-star guards and forwards to western conference all-star centers is idiotic, and thus the entire basis for the article was illogical.

Is Sam Cassell going to b**** that Ben Wallace is overrated when big Ben is picked for the Eastern team, and Sam gets left off the West team? I bet Mehmet Okur's really pissed he's not gonna make the team because Allen Iverson is the one they put on TV all the time...

 

Yeah, saying "you're a lower form of non-human life" and "you talk funny" are roughly equivalent . . .

 

Dude, please edit your post so you have the right poster and the right quote

 

This was the caption at Yao's picture on the NBA page at SI

"Despite significant injuries and lackluster play, the Rockets' Yao Ming was among this season's leading All-Star vote-getters"

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/



Poor guy just can't get any respect--people do realize that he had the highest points per game among centers before his "significant injuries" right ?