Why Does Yao Ming have to go to China in the summer???

because Chinese gov. is a much complicated system and Wang's act were considered as sort of 'betrayal", it's all about politics, man

 

Yao went this summer to play the Asian championships. Only the WINNER qualify for the next years Olympics. Plus the game is played IN CHINA. Do you think Yao can or should pass that?

Other players like Dirk and Peja also play for their respective countries, so Yao is not special. If anything, China produce one Yao Ming once in 100 years, do you think he will not play for China?

As for the money, I heard it was a fixed amount, not percentage. I think it wasn't very smart. But in China, the player are brought up by the country. The country put in a lot of resources in producing players, free accomodations, free travels etc, so I guess they felt they should get some'ing back. The American universities received the students' fee in the first place, and the players will bring some advertisement effect as well. So things are kind of different.

 

YAO = Slave of the Chinese Basketball Association. The big fella should stay in the land of freedom and be granted U.S. citizenship.

 

Also Wang Zhi Zhi is a memeber of PLA, the army. He probably will face punishment for not obeying orders. At least I think that's what he's afraid of.

 

errr... I think you should ask Yao himself, where is home? China, or 'land of freedom'.

 

You want to know why he goes?

Because he wants to, because he's Chinese, and he loves it.


Yao has gotten bigger and better over the summer, so there's nothing to complain about.

 

I just have a question for u. Should Francis join the dream team and play for USA next year if he gets the invitation? By your logic, "why the heck Francis goes over to Athen and play with guys that mostly cant even make to the NBA. You will only get real competition by playing with real competitors in the N.B.A. That is the only way Francis can get better at his god gifted skills."

And who cares about Wang. Yao and Wang are two individuals and they make their own decisions about their life. Yao has chosen to play for his country and nobody can deny his right to do so, including rockets, u and me. If rockets want him to stay in US in the summer, they should have included this clause in the contract.

I dont know about the sharing of Yao's salary. But who cares anyway as it's the agreement between yao and the govt. Yao's a billion anyway.

 

That's absurd. Even players in China's men's soccer league average around 6ft. In fact even their women soccer players are taller than 5'1-5'3 on average. The players in their basketball leagues average around 6ft7.

 

Holy smoke, you must be on some very potent stuff !

FYI

Minus Yao, the avg height of Chinese NT is 6'5, their avg weight is 183 lbs

 

Your parents lose about half of their income to the US government in taxes alone. Is that fair?

you sound like one of those americans who go abroad and complain about the foreigners.

 

You are a "slave" to propoganda and misguided American patriotism.

--rhad

 

Let's see how many complaints come at the half-way point in the season when Yao hits the wall again and his play drops off.

We've all seen how much more fatigued the NBA players get during the season when they have to play in the Olympics. Many NBA players say playing this much basketball can't be done, hopefully Yao is a different beast and will be able to prove them wrong.

 

To get as far away from Yetti as possible...

 

You, Sir, are a genius!

 

He goes because he HAS to... we get the short end of this deal, always!! He cannot play year round for very long. The Rockets organization should've never agreed to letting him play year round. The organization should've played hardball in negotiations with China and it should've been either he plays here full time or over there full time. Mark my words, this year round playing will eventually catch up to him and we'll be the one's to feel the pain of it when he craps out in the playoffs or finals!! I love Yao, but year round playing is going to kill him.

 

djunior is the guy who loves his freedom, his land of freedom, his freedom fries but has probably never set foot outside of his texas town...i say he's FREE to be an idiot, but he should nonetheless keep his comments here to basketball...

 

As much as i want him to stay he's just representing his county and i cant hate on that.

 

You are freaking ridiculous.

Play with 5'1-5-3'? The average height of the Chinese National team is 6'7" or 6'8". Just look at Bateer (6'11") with the Raptors and Wang (7'1") with Clippers.

Make a point when you have the fact!

 

Why are you guys responding to someone who's stupid enough to say that?