Yao Ming Retires

by AllThatJazzBasketball on Jul 8, 2011 11:42 AM MDT in NBA - News, Chatter, & Links

Yao Ming, of the Houston Rockets, has retired from the NBA, according to a number of sources. Obviously, not directly Jazz related news, but we see the continuing death of true, back to the basket big men in the passing of Yao Ming from being an "active" player to retiring from the NBA. He will be missed. Love him or hate him, he was a very nice man who advanced basketball in his nation (China), his continent (Asia), and across the globe. Yes, he got a lot of All-Star votes every year - but you can't hate a guy for being popular. (The under-reported issue is that the majority of Yao Ming votes came from the US, not China...) He finishes his NBA years with career averages of 19.0 ppg (52.4 fg%, 83.3 ft%), 9.2 rpg, and 1.9 bpg. Hall of Famer? He'll get in for sure. Even if he only got out of the 1st round once in his career.

He will be missed.

And yes, Rockets fans, this is the picture I'm using for this post. Don't like it? Use a pic of Yao dunking on AK when Andrei Kirilenko retires.

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I'm almost certain

that Yao Ming’s legs weigh more than Andrei’s entire body, back in those 2001-2002 days . . .

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by AllThatJazzBasketball on Jul 8, 2011 11:45 AM MDT reply actions

The best part of the pic

is Ostertag standing helplessly behind both of them. The Fred Flintstone tat on his calf is a dead giveaway.

by JasonInPG on Jul 8, 2011 12:41 PM MDT reply actions

they were a good tandem inside, we had good interior defense that year

by AllThatJazzBasketball on Jul 8, 2011 1:04 PM MDT up reply actions

dream shake

is gonna blow a gasket when they see we put this as our pic.

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Stockton to Malone- The perfect combination!!

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by ForTheLove on Jul 8, 2011 12:49 PM MDT reply actions

just like the Rockets blew that Game 7 at home

by AllThatJazzBasketball on Jul 8, 2011 1:03 PM MDT up reply actions

I can give some respect to it

Nicely done sir.

And in retort: How many championships do the Jazz have? How about Stockton and Malone?

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by UofTOrange on Jul 8, 2011 1:18 PM MDT up reply actions

Rockets have 2 and the Jazz have 0

But Yao Ming has as many as Greg Ostertag.

by AllThatJazzBasketball on Jul 8, 2011 1:35 PM MDT up reply actions

When the Mavericks got one, I started to devalue them a bit.

In a league of “haves” and “have nots” I still put the Rockets in the “have nots” with the Jazz. Basically you never want your trump card in an argument to be an argument that a Lakers fan wins 16-2.

by tyrantking on Jul 8, 2011 1:59 PM MDT up reply actions

No blown gaskets. Just all kinda sad that he left.

Yao got blocked many times. I’d fully expect you guys to put up a pic like that. We’d do the same. I just think it’s cool ya’ll made a post about him.

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by TheChuckwagonisrolling on Jul 9, 2011 10:24 AM MDT up reply actions