Yao Ming

fandom.

So, like, if I'm Chinese and I want to come to the game because Yao Ming's there, they're like, no, you're not Chinese.

You're

Clipper-nese.

While Heiner left American football, baseball, and hockey to Reebok, he entrusted basketball to Adidas.

Basketball was the most popular support in Asia, and star players like Yao Ming had captured the attention of over 80 million Chinese fans in the 2000s.

To Heiner, basketball was critical to winning Asia, and Reebok's former leaders had failed to tap into the sport's true commercial potential.

If Adidas could become the leading basketball brand and leading soccer brand in the world, it would have a moat that Nike could never cross.

Incredible.

Reminiscent of Nate Robinson on Yao Ming.

There've already been two highlight Wemby blocks this year.

He's a Joe

Miami Heat Keith just gives us an all big man lineup.

Shaq, Birdman, Amari Stoudemire, Yao Ming.

That would be funny, Yao Ming.

Yao, you so big.

Birdman?

there.

He's like, remember back in the day when Yao Ming was on the Chinese national basketball team? And he's like 7'5", and everyone else is like 6' tall at best.

That's what it's like.

Yeah, it's pretty funny.

Cohen Loney

is Yao Ming.

Okay, let's look at the Canterra Seats Pick'em Pool leaderboards.

This is you, the fans.

And the year that we were really active, 08, 09, I can't remember which one it was.

It was the Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady year with the Houston Rockets.

And they had labbed the game, and they figured out there was a drop pass from Tracy to Yao Ming that was unstoppable.

No matter the defense, no matter the team you played, you could not stop that play.

And if you won the tip, and when you got to the championship, everybody was either the Houston Rockets, or I think it was the, was it Boston that year? With Kevin Garnett and Paul? That's possible, I guess.

Of Brittany Griner.

That's right next to Yao Ming.

Her wingspan.

Was longer.