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Yao Getting Chastised For His Words?

Posted by Jeff Sack under NBA Off The Court Issues, Slam Dunk Olympics Central 

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The Houston Chronicle reported that the Houston Rockets are shocked at the reaction by fans of what injured Rockets center Yao Ming said after suffering a stress fracture which will keep him on the sidelines for the balance of the NBA season. Yao was asked what would be the bigger disappointment missing the rest of the NBA campaign or missing the 2008 Olympic Games to be held in his homeland China. Naturally Yao said the Olympics would be the greater loss to him personally. He plays yearly in the NBA, the Olympics comes around only once every four years, and an Olympics in your homeland probably takes place once in a lifetime (unless you live in the USA, where I can come up with four pretty quickly) and yet fans are giving him grief. As an old song by Joe South was titled back in the Sixties (Walk A Mile In My Shoes) you can’t put your values on someone from a different culture. There is no harder working athlete in the NBA than Yao Ming.

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2 Responses to “Yao Getting Chastised For His Words?”

  1. DX on October 19th, 2008 4:19 am

    No one will blame Kobe if he leave Lakers for 76ers because he was born in Phili. Why should Yao being blamed just because he went back to fight for his own Country?
    Player’s homesick complex should be respected, let alone player’s patriotic feelings.
    Of course the passion of all the Yao’s Fans is excusable.

  2. sxm on October 19th, 2008 7:49 am

    I quite agree with “you can’t your values on someone from a different culture.” One’s value as the core of culture is not likely to change. As a Chinese myself, I fully understand Yao. We cherish the opportunity of the Olympics coming to homeland. Though Huston is paying Yao for his performance, it does not entail him changing value. As long as Yao is performaning his worth and in this case he is indeed, media should give more tolerence to the culture differences. It is not a question of right or wrong.

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