(Little intro since this is my first post here: I'm a huge YaoMing fan. I watched his every single game and organized a group of 100 people in Chicago to see his game on Jan.26th vs BULLS. ) No doubt, refs are giving YaoMing veteran's calls. This is from David Stern. NBA is searching(establishing) the next big thing. Besides media work, they also let refs to be nicer to the candidates. It seems to me that YaoMing is one of their candidates right now. He should take the advantage by all means. Look at the frustration on Divac's face when he got the reach-in foul. Well, YaoMing has all the talents and now NBA is at his side. Too perfect? I'm praying for that he won't get severe injuries in future. NBA is cruel... when Carter went down coz his injury, he got no calls from refs... sad.
Maybe the referees are happy to have a guy who is so RESPECTFUL to them. And because of this respect, they return it in kind. DaDakota