Posts Tagged ‘Yao Ming’

Brandon Roy For The Win

Friday, November 7th, 2008

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Now that is how you finish an NBA game: two clutch shots by Brandon Roy sandwiching a huge turnaround jump shot from Yao Ming. In fact, Roy was involved in all three of these plays as he hit [...]

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Um, Yao?

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Last Rockets post of the day. Promise. It’s not often you get to see a 7′6″ basketball player get stuffed by the rim on a dunk attempt — until now, courtesy of Yao Ming (via Tirico Suave). It’s almost like seeing a futbol player miss a wide-open goal: It’s more shocking than [...]

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Ron Artest to the Rescue?

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Is this a kinder, gentler Ron Artest we are witnessing? Doubtful … but there is something to be said about last night’s technical foul business against the Mavericks. What we have is Yao getting tangled up with Josh Howard and Ron-Ron running in to actually pull Yao away — after making contact [...]

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NBA Tonight - Is Houston Ready For Liftoff?

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

A few of us out there eschewed conventional wisdom and picked the Houston Rockets to represent the Western Conference in the NBA Championship, myself included. Hell, I even picked them to win it all, but I think that had as much to do with me not wanting to pick Lakers over whoever like everyone [...]

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Ron Artest = Rocket Man

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Welcome to Houston, Ron Artest. How does the idea of being in a starting five that includes Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady strike you? From where I’m standing, it looks like you should be ecstatic because now that you’ve been acquired, your new team now has the makings of being one of the [...]

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Yao’s Olympic Reeboks Are Noticeable

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Apparently, these things have been known about since January, but obviously, I missed the memo. Nevertheless, these are the Reeboks Yao will be wearing when Chinese Olympic basketball team begins playing (their first game is against Team USA on August 10).
According to beRecruited, the shoes will sell for $150; however, the distribution [...]

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