LOL. At beginning I thought this thread is very stupid, but once I saw another thread "Yao Ming cost Rockets another season" posted before this one and I saw more people voted "yes" than "no" in that poll, I fully understand why OP made such a thread. Good job OP. I don't feel sorry for those extremely biased fans.
i agree with your sentiment. People shouldn't feel such a way. But my opinion is that it has become such trite topic people just vote yes because they're frustrated with how times it been brought up. Its clear that injuries are no one's fault in particular, unless they intentionally commit them, so wondering why is just meaningless imo.
I'm not Chinese, but these types of comments are not necessary. China has not been communist since the 1980s. There is no reason for comments like that here.
Yeah they're not communist anymore, LOL. They just control the internet and will imprison anyone who speaks out against the government.
Communism is an economic system. China is a capitalist country, not a communist country. It has not been communist since the 1980s. So there is no need for people here to keep making ignorant remarks about "commies" and all that other nonsense.
We have a Debate and Discussion forum down in the bowels of the BBS, D&D for short, where folks can argue or discuss or declaim all things political, and otherwise. The Chinese government stuff, if folks are actually interested, is supposed to stay down there, if it has to go anywhere. Think of the forum as the Tums or Pepto-Bismol of ClutchFans. The cure for heartburn and acid indigestion. The toilet you run to when you have the runs. The open sewer of the... you get the idea.
The rockets knew the short term risk and rewards of yao prior to the draft. They knew his career would be short and the rockets were hoping he would be great for that short time. They also knew his loyalty toward the national team and they signed off on it. The other guy they had rated at that spot was Amare. Yao was good,very good when healthy and thats that. He will never be in the same sentence as great bigs, but thats ok. If the rockets wouldnt have pulled the trigger or if yao decided to never play in the nba, he would still be playing in the chineesse league and probably be just an urban legend of sorts. Kind like how sabonis waited till he was 30 and people talk or wonder aloud how good he wouldve been in the 80's.
Before you judge other countries...look at your own. China's dirty laundry get aired out on every western media outlet in the world while the U.S. just covers theirs up with lies and deceit. As far as which country has started more wars and murdered more innocent civilians, the US undoubtedly takes the top spot.
Poor Yao, getting paid tens of millions of dollars to come to this backqards ass place to play basketball and be marketed as a world superstar, I mean he could have stayed home and played ball for the Sharks and played video games with his homies and become the star player that nobody everd heard of. I can't imagine why he chose to play for those dirty capitalist Houston Rockets. Poor fella, let the pity party begin.
In that case, tell me this. Who is more grateful to the other. Cleveland towards Lebron James when they picked him #1 in the draft? Or vice versa? What about Dwight Howard and the Magic? Should DH be forever licking Magic owner's boots for giving him a "chance" to play in the NBA? You really should go back and re-take high school economics class. No. He could've pulled a Kobe and cherry-picked his team. Or are you telling me that as the NUMBER ONE PICK IN THE ENTIRE DRAFT, that Yao wasn't garnering interest from any team besides the Rockets?
I like how this thread has morphed into some weird thing about who should be "grateful" to who, since the initial premise failed so spectacularly. For the record, if somebody handed me $30 million expressly to play basketball for them for the last two years, and I didn't play it, I'd be pretty grateful.
