Jun 17, 2014 · The man standing next to Yao is 7'4" Ralph Sampson!!! I can only think of three players as tall, or taller than Yao who played in the NBA. 7'6" Shawn Bradley. He actually looks taller than Yao here. If memory serves, when Yao first came into the league he was listed at 7'5". 7'7" Manute Bol. He did many interviews where he mentioned he was (he ...

Jul 6, 2020 · My nephew walked up and introduced himself to Yao in an airport back in late 2014 and took a pic with him, looks just like that one... except my nephew is white. Him and Yao have the same birthday, and he said Yao was so cool and talked to him for 10 minutes.

Aug 12, 2021 · Boban plays and Yao was just Boban but better at absolutely everything. The Rockets were always in the hunt, but Yao and T-Mac, who were magical together, could not stay in the court together. Just read a stat on Wiki, “of the 463 regular season games for which they were teammates, Yao missed 146 and McGrady 160.”

Jun 15, 2019 · This has got to be the most ignorant American take I've heard in a long time. Jeremy Lin raised the bar, he broke a pretty impressive barrier regarding pro basketball, but Yao Ming set the damn bar. He's the reason the bar even existed. Yao is a HoF player who went toe to toe against freaking Shaq his first year.

Aug 5, 2020 · But Walton is listed at 6-11 (looks underbilled), Ewing was listed at 7-0 (looks maybe overbilled?) and Mu Tiezhu was listed at 7-5.75 and 353lbs (probably overbilled height, maybe an in shoes number based on Wilt's height). Yao Ming was actually 7-5.75 barefoot according to an article I had come across.

Dec 2, 2020 · People think being tall is the only thing that got him in the NBA, I've seen people say "imagine a player as tall as Yao but very skilled". What they don't understand is the ungodly amount of dexterity and balance needed just to move that freakish body around normally, and he did it on an NBA court with some amazing footwork and a silky smooth ...

Most people said no. But what about the other side of that height spectrum. Will we ever see another 7 ft 5/7 ft 6 player that's not just a human victory cigar? Porzingis is probably the closest we've seen to that, but even he's not as tall as Yao. Idk. It'd be incredible to see someone Tacko's size, that's an actual All-Star like Yao was ...

Yup. A 2016 study of American men and women found a connection between height and cancer risk, as well as death from all causes. Researchers analyzed death certificate data for 14,440 men and 16,3

Jul 19, 2020 · 104K votes, 1.2K comments. 8.7M subscribers in the nextfuckinglevel community. Comes with the air space. As long as people keep it relatively still with their body, and are aware that they have that there, as opposed to some people who just flap it about as an extension of their arm to make expressions and such, I can’t blame anyone.

Jul 8, 2011 · 300 million, and growing. That is the number of people who play basketball in China. And that is a tiny fraction of the number of people whose lives Yao Ming has touched and changed. Arg 9: Yao Ming has expanded basketball Great read. If Yao Ming makes the HOF, it won’t be because of Arguments 1, 2, 3, or 4 in your essay.