wow i dont know how many of yall played basketball but trash talking is part of the game like it or not...and for yall to say that the great ones didnt talk **** on the court are so wrong..for people that get upset of the fact ppl cuz while playing must be the ones that got picked last to play on the team... because any competitor that plays game doesnt get offended and if they do then the other person did their job by getting in there head..but at the end of the day its all love unless your the senstive type which are the ones i pick on during a game
Lol, I remember Steve Francis in a post game interview when they were just a few minutes removed from the game, he said 'They called some bullsh*t calls there...' And Shaq in a live interview also said 'They gave us a fu*king game...Shaq, we are on live.......I don't give a sh*t.' Now that was aboslutely hilarious on TV! What makes you think that Jordan, Bird, Kobe didn't curse when they were on court?
i think we can all see yao's confidence is growing day by day, but this sort of confirms it in a weird way. i love yao ming.
Hope this wasn't directed at me, but incase it was.. I've no problem with the swearing, part of showing emotion and getting into the game. I do it often. I do have an issue though with people miscontruing this as 'growing up' or being a man. Just perpetuates the juvenile belief that you have to be a punk to be tough, to immaturely self promote by degrading your competition, and to act threatening to be taken seriously. etc etc.
I can't beleive how some of you guys complain about Yao cussing. He's has always been cussing since his rookie year. The only diff is he cusses in English now. Just because you cuss in an emotionally charged game doesn't mean you're a bad boy. Not like Yao got tats, hit his wife, drove around while pleasuring himself, gets drunk or startsa brawl. Seriously,fansare impossible to please.
Cheryl Raye: Does it bother you, though, that some of the guys are coming on now the new generation-it's not swagger, it's almost demeaning the way they can be. The trash-talking-I mean, you're a good trash-talker, everybody knows that-but they've taken it to a level that's almost harmful in a way. Jordan: I see that. It's always a conscious effort not to get caught up into that.... Me, I just stick to my game, and let my game do my talking. People that I know, Charles [Oakley], Patrick [Ewing], I may say a little bit and talk a little trash. People I don't know, I'm very quiet about that. I won't say that to those people. But today's athletes, they don't care, they just show it. And some players use it as motivation. It's hard to tell them not to. I think the league is trying to contain that as much as possible, because it initiates fights and it initiates hard feelings. In the old days, when we used to talk trash, it was never a demeaning situation where you walked off the court and hated someone. If anything, you walked off the court and respected that person. And now it's a little different. It has a little bit more of a dagger to it, where it's personal to the point of being harmful.
Does'nt Chris Ka(ve)man look like a gay Sith Lord with the towel looking like the hood of a cloak? (not from today's game but still recent). Should we start calling him Sith Kaveman? Beware of the pink/gay side of the force.
Please, cursing is hardly a sign of poor character. I mean, it might be if you are a close-minded prude... or if it was another situation, but come on, it's a basketball game. And really, I think he was just saying it to his teammates, not Kaman since he's backing up and his other Rocket players are running in his direction. He gives someone a high five off the screen, in the direction he was shouting. And I highly doubt that it was Kaman.
To be fair. There is a difference. Before, it was out of frustration. This time, just look at the highlight. Yao's clearly chock full of himself, cocky and condescending with "Just try to f***ing stop me". Which made me LOL in disbelief.
I am Chinese and I don't feel comfortable with his speaking f curse word .Yao should be a nice and modest guy.It would change his great impression in people's mind when he did this .Playing basketball doesn't mean you have to do curse thing ,right?
I once bellowed sh*t on a football (soccer) pitch because I caught the ball with my hands when I was playing defense. The goalie at the other end of the pitch heard me nothing wrong with letting our your emotion, as long as it's in words and not in punches (coughAnthonyrobinsonrcough).
No worries, Yao's still the Mr. good guy in the league. The curse shows that he's got the confidence to be clutch down the strech and that's what is encouraging. Being from Shanghai myself too, I know cursing is really no big deal and often used on the playground.
I cannot vouch for what he said based on video evidence(s) available to us. I must submit that the header is more a figment of our imagination, wishful thinking or similar at best - upon further review (Yao confirms it himself, which is as likely as null). For now, we can have fun with it but the fact remains that it is not clear what Yao said enough to come to a serious conclussion. P.S. If an expert lip-reader contributed their trained skill on then matter and I missed it, I apologize.
