Poor Yao has to play 2 games during the all-star weekend

Hmmm, someone is having a bad day.....

I hope Yao skips this meaningless game. It's bad enough that he has to play in the ASG and now this BS game. C'mon. Give Yao a break.

 

LOL. I heard it was one of the best rookie class in years.

 

Nothing good can come of this.

 

Yikes. Thought it was wrong... but I guess not.

http://www.tsn.ca/nba/news_story.asp?id=69824

Stuart

 

why poor? he gets to play bball, dude poor us that have to work and go to school everyday, he's fine, I would rather be a profesional bball player and play two all star games, that be a student at U of H and have two or three exams a day.

 

Good grief!

The All-Star game is for the fans, and that's who pays their salaries. Almost every player in the league WISHES that he could play in either game, where they are honored as being the cream of the crop in the best league in the world.

It is an honor. Yao is a man of honor. I can't imagine him NOT wanting to play, and doing his best.

He has made comments about this as a joke, and self-deprecating humor. I can't believe any of you are taking him serious.

 

if shaq wins the votes, there has been talk of pickin brad miller over yao, so maybe he wont play in the all star game and just in the rookie challenge....... we'll see

 

ROOKIE TEAM ROSTER
Player Team Pos. Ht. Wt. College/Country
Carmelo Anthony Denver F 6-8 230 Syracuse
Chris Bosh Toronto F 6-10 225 Georgia Tech
Udonis Haslem Miami F 6-8 230 Florida
LeBron James Cleveland G 6-8 258 St. Vincent-St. Mary HS
Jarvis Hayes Washington G/F 6-7 220 Georgia
Kirk Hinrich Chicago G 6-3 186 Kansas
Josh Howard Dallas F 6-5 210 Wake Forest
Chris Kaman L.A. Clippers C 7-0 268 Central Michigan
Dwyane Wade Miami G 6-4 212 Marquette

SOPHOMORE TEAM ROSTER
Player Team Pos. Ht. Wt. College/Country
Carlos Boozer Cleveland F 6-8 258 Duke
Mike Dunleavy Golden State F 6-8 230 Duke
Manu Ginobili San Antonio F 6-6 210 Argentina
Marko Jaric L.A. Clippers G 6-7 217 Serbia-Montenegro
Ronald Murray Seattle G 6-3 197 Shaw
Nenê Denver F 6-11 260 Brazil
Tayshaun Prince Detroit F 6-9 215 Kentucky
Amaré Stoudemire Phoenix F 6-10 245 Cypress Creek HS
Yao Ming Houston C 7-5 296 China

 

Yao should tell the NBA: "The average worker in America has his vacation time. The ASG weekend is my vacation time. I have the right to do whatever I want during my vacation time. So back off."

Yao, to become the next most dominating center, you'll have to learn some attitude from Shaq.

 

same here

 

Yao should play in both games.

 

welcome to the NBA.

 

Doesn't it seem a little beneath Yao to play in the rook-soph game? The guy is a bona fide all-star already. Seems like that game is the junior varsity all-stars.

 

Isn't it the first time for the NBA to allow players to play in both games?

 

yep, but with all the training and closely scheduled games he should be accustomed to playing these two. And as someone else pointed out earlier, its not the same as a regular game, I dont see him spending more than 5 minutes on the court at a time.

 

so true. on the other hand if he doesn't get voted in or/and picked he'd feel left out and disappointed. this is an honor and also a recognition.

 

No precious time for Yao to rest.

Poor guy!