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 Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 5:47 pm Post subject: Rockets to retire Yao Ming's jersey |
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http://nba.nbcsports.com/2016/09/12/reports-rockets-to-retire-yao-mings-jersey/
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Reports: Rockets to retire Yao Ming’s jersey
Generally, if a Chinese news organization is BREAKING NEWS about the NBA, I’m taking the report with half a box of Kosher salt. But in this case, they likely are on to something.
CBS Houston found that Chinese news sources have reported that the Houston Rockets will retire the jersey of Yao Ming, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame last weekend. (Hat tip to Reddit)
“China Radio International’s English website cited that the China’s Basketball Pioneers website posted on its Weibo (China’s most prominent social media platform) account that an unnamed member of the Rockets front office said there was a plan in place to honor Yao during the upcoming season.
According to the report the Rockets plan to hold the ceremony close to the Chinese Lunar New Year which will be near the end of January 2017.”
That Houston would retire the number of one of the franchise’s great players right after he entered the Hall of Fame makes a lot of sense. As would the reported timing.
Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady helped spark some excellent Rockets teams in the mid-2000s, teams that were just never able to get over the hump and contend for a title. However, Ming’s popularity in China has made the Rockets a popular team there to this day and helped open up that and other international markets to the entire NBA. He’s an important player who also was an excellent one on the court.
Good on the Rockets for taking this step. |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| This feels a little like the Clippers hanging division banners...but hey, I'm not against it. |
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999
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| Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 9:44 am Post subject: |
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| lakerjoshua wrote: | | This feels a little like the Clippers hanging division banners...but hey, I'm not against it. |
well... isn't Yao going in the hall of fame?... that something more than the clippers past or current ever did. |
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| 999 wrote: | | lakerjoshua wrote: | | This feels a little like the Clippers hanging division banners...but hey, I'm not against it. |
well... isn't Yao going in the hall of fame?... that something more than the clippers past or current ever did. |
Yao and his career is more valuable then a division banner.. He did to much for the NBA and the Houston franchise, not even worth the debate. |
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| lakerjoshua wrote: | | This feels a little like the Clippers hanging division banners...but hey, I'm not against it. |
Yao is in the HOF, it is nothing like the Clippers hanging division banners. It is like the Lakers hanging the jerseys of HOF players.
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Yao deserves to have his jersey hung especially after making the HOF.
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| venturalakersfan wrote: | | lakerjoshua wrote: | | This feels a little like the Clippers hanging division banners...but hey, I'm not against it. |
Yao is in the HOF, it is nothing like the Clippers hanging division banners. It is like the Lakers hanging the jerseys of HOF players. |
To be fair he never got the Rockets out of the 2nd round and injuries severely hindered his career.
If there was ever an "honorary" entry to the HOF is Yao, imho. It's all, "clipper-ish".
But again, I don't have an issue with it just an opinion on how it sits with me. |
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If Yao didn't get hurt in 2009 against us I don't think we beat the Rockets. He was very scary in that series. His impact was absolutely Shaq-like.
Well deserved. |
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| VegasLakerFan wrote: | If Yao didn't get hurt in 2009 against us I don't think we beat the Rockets. He was very scary in that series. His impact was absolutely Shaq-like.
Well deserved. |
i think it was more of the fact that Aaron brooks decides to go all Oscar Robertson during that series that made it a close series |
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| 999 wrote: | | VegasLakerFan wrote: | If Yao didn't get hurt in 2009 against us I don't think we beat the Rockets. He was very scary in that series. His impact was absolutely Shaq-like.
Well deserved. |
i think it was more of the fact that Aaron brooks decides to go all Oscar Robertson during that series that made it a close series |
That didn't help our cause, but Yao was averaging something like 20, 11, 1.5 blocks, 1.5 assists and scoring pretty efficiently. I guess he wasn't Shaq-like in Shaq's prime, but he was definitely giving us buckets. Usually Pau played him well but in that series before Yao got hurt he was clearly the better big. |
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 8:33 am Post subject: |
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| Yao deserves it... his career was just cut short. But he's one of the best centers of the generation. |
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Great guy, great player.
Well deserved.
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