Poet pens ‘First Draft of Yao Ming’s Retirement Speech'

DCkid · Sep 22, 2011

"Why wouldn't I stop talking? Y'all been telling me my own story for so long, I figured no one wanted to hear it from my lips anyway."

Of course, these words don't come from Yao Ming's lips, either; they were written and spoken by Giles Li, an Asian-American poet and performer based in Boston. In this spoken word piece, Li puts himself in Yao's now-hung-up size 18s and tries to move the spotlight away from the former Houston Rockets center's much-discussed impact as a cultural ambassador and global economic force. Instead, Li looks to illuminate Yao as a flesh-and-blood person, a view frequently shielded from the eyes of the world by all those macro-associations.
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Rest is here: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Video-Poet-pens-8216-First-Draft-of-Yao-Ming-?urn=nba-wp8637

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