My friends follow basketball, most will call me when the rockets lose but not when they win, luckily for me the only games i missed this year was the grizzlies game over thanksgiving and the clipper game last week (stupid dvr!) but otherwise was able to watch them all live or later on the same day with the score unknown to me. but i was referring to yao with that comment, had china won or lost his former teammates would have let him know right away especially if they won so i am sure he wasnt too distraught over not being able to follow the game live. as for the hotels i think it varies on the hotel and where you use the internet. most hotels the internet in the room is moderate to slightly expensive price wise, but if you use the "tech" room lobby downstairs thats where the prices are downright flithy. not sure if that was the case with yao, but you would figure a busy man like him would have a laptop to use in his room.
Agree, but one mistake. A typical NBA game usually takes 2.5 hours (150 minutes), which translates to $150 to watch tv or box score on internet. I will not pay that price either.
Learn something from YAO all you paycheck to paycheck people!! and SAVE!! didn't yo mama teach you anything!
That is probably a load of bull. Best Western also charges maybe 20 times less than those expensive hotels... I am sure the Hyatt can afford it, they also know that the people that stay in their hotels NEED to use the internet for business or whatnot, so why not earn a few more bucks? I am assuming that Yao doesn't care THAT much for the team. It would be like me cheering for some NHL team in the Stanley Cup. Sure I would like to know who wins, but I don't care enough to pay money/go somewhere with free wifi, etc.
if saving 10$ was important to him, he could have put it on his per diem travel allowance and charged the Rockets for it. Come on Yao. Maybe he already spent 10$ on in-room pr0n.
Speaking of which does anyone here know where the rockets may be staying at when they visit the LA teams at the end of this month. i would love to try to go to the hotel and try to meet and greet some of the players
watch this comment man........lol.......the last guys that tried this got creamed for 20 some odd pages!!!!!!!!!!
no i was just hoping to hang out in the lobby thursday night and if i meet any of them cool, if not i would go back home i am not going to go snooping around finding out what rooms they are in etc. i am not that type of person. i am sure at least tmac and yao will be busy in la (they probably have some commercial shoots or appearances somewhere on the thursday between the two games) but it would be cool to try to be able to meet some of the other players. its more like waiting outside of a stadium to meet the players after the game rather than following them to their personal residence to take pictures.
The amount of money they have is irrelevant. There are plenty of Asians who life comfortably enough to not have to worry about money (even if they are not filthy rich sports icons) and they are still conservative spenders. Besides, Yao has to give a lot of his salary to the Chinese government, so he's not as rich as many other players.
nobody who's chinese would be broke after one year in the NBA .. i guarantee you that much.. we don't buy grills and platinum chains. we invest.
what is Yao talking about, his home internet isn't free, it's just cheaper than $10/10min. somebody's gotta pay for it and it's probably him, since he earns whatever China lets him have (haha), so he should know that it's not free.
Why not just pay 60 dollars a month to get the wireless internet through a cell phone carrier. If he has a laptop, just put in the wireless card, and he'll have service, and it's pretty fast. I know if I had that much money, I wouldn't mind paying 60 dollars a month for internet I can take anywheres.
Mobile internet is quite slow and unreliable, not to mention all the troubles to setup it for a no-IT guy. I think what you can get is about 128kbits/s, although 384bits/s maybe available in theory, barely enough for a low-low-quality video streaming. Unless it is Wi-max, a wifi can go quite far, which is not available yet.
