Yao Ming is one of the greatest basketball players in the history of Chinese sports. His strength is at the same level as the world's top, and his achievements are unprecedented in Asia. But for decades, there have been ball blindness that has denied him.
The biggest reason for the denial of ball blindness is that Yao Ming's achievements are due to his height, and they believe that Yao Ming's height, skills, ability, and ball quotient are average in addition to 2 meters 26 meters.
Although tall players do have great advantages in basketball, if height can solve all problems, then the achievements of a large number of people around the world will surpass Yao Ming, because they are higher than Yao Ming.
So let's pick a few people to say, they are also basketball players, but also centers, some have also mixed in the NBA, and there are people who are the same as Yao Ming or even taller than Yao Ming, but none of them have achieved a brilliant career like Yao Ming.
Because of China's Yao Ming, there is only one.
One, "Yao Ming of Korea": "Big Hippopotamus" Hasheng Town
The height of 2 meters 21, it is reasonable to say that this height is the height of a normal person, because Yao Ming, Ilgoskas, and Hadadi all look like normal people, but Hesheng Town, who is only 2 meters 21 meters tall, has an abnormal face of gigantism.
Ha Seung Jin, born in 1985, height 2 meters 21, South Korean national team center, the first player in Korean history to play in the NBA, a qualified NBA water dispenser administrator, briefly played for the Blazers and Bucks, similar to the Bundesliga Wolfsburg midfielder Jang Se-chol.
In the 04-05 and 05-06 seasons, Hesheng Town ushered in a highlight moment, making 46 appearances at the Portland Trail Blazers, averaging 6.7 minutes per game, scoring 1.4 points, 1.5 rebounds, 0.3 blocks and 0.5 assists.
Hesheng Town is large, clumsy, slow to move, general confrontational ability, offensive side will not be low singles, will not hit the shot, will not hook, scoring means rely on leaks to make up baskets and dunks, defensive rebounding ability and block ability is average, lack of excellent center toughness and aggression.
In South Korea, a country that is good at plagiarism and brainless bragging, the emergence of Ha Seung-jin has allowed South Korea to climax for a while. At that time, the Korean variety show blew up this person and shouted out the slogan of "breaking up Yao Ming", and even the coach of the South Korean national youth team, Jiang Yijun, vowed to say: "The future of Hasheng Town is immeasurable, because the 18-year-old is stronger than the 18-year-old Yao Ming." ”
However, in the NBA career, Hesheng town and Yao Ming played 4 times, Yao Ming averaged 28 minutes per game, a total of 83 points, and Hesheng town averaged 8.5 minutes per game, a total of only 5 points.
In 2006, Hasheng Town was sent to the Milwaukee Bucks by the Blazers, but was cut before the start of the new season, and then played in the NBA Development League for a while, but still unsatisfactory, in 2007, Hasheng Town returned to South Korea to end the NBA dream ahead of schedule, at the same time, the slogan of "breaking Yao Ming" was no longer mentioned.
Second, The German Yao Ming": "Bamboo Pole" Sean Bradley
The most classic shot of this person is the super background board that is buckled by Maddy in the playoffs.
Sean Bradley, born in 1972, 2 meters 29 tall, hometown of Landstuhl, Germany, basketball player, professional center, because of his thin body and has the reputation of "bamboo pole".
In 1993, Bradley was selected by Philadelphia with the second pick in the first round of the draft. But the rookie season was unfavorable, playing 49 games and getting injured, averaging 10.3 points, 6.2 rebounds and 3 blocks per game.
In 1997, Bradley moved to the Mavericks and his career gradually got on track, but the injury curse came to the door again, and the back injury and leg injury severely limited his state, so he gradually fell behind in the competition with Eric Dampier, and his position was completely marginalized. In 2005, at the age of 33, Bradley, who was plagued by injuries, reached a buyout agreement with the Mavericks and then retired.
Bradley had high hopes when he first entered the NBA, and the 76ers who selected him as the cornerstone of the interior and gave him the No. 76 jersey. However, as an interior player, Bradley is weak, the ability to fight is low, the shooting rate is only 40%, coupled with frequent injuries, going around several teams, and finally regretting retirement is not surprising.
It is said that Yao Ming just entered the NBA that meeting, the media's prediction to Yao is that the upper limit is white All-Star center Schmitz, and the lower limit is Bradley. It seems that in the eyes of the US media, Bradley, whose height and arm span are amazing, has been regarded as a failed player.
After retiring from the army, Bradley was equally ill-fated. In March 21, Bradley suffered a catastrophe. Riding a bicycle in front of his home, he was in a car accident and caused a traumatic spinal cord injury that led to paralysis. After being paralyzed, Bradley was in physical pain, depressed, and even had suicidal thoughts, but it is said that he has survived.
Experts say it is possible for him to recover, but the road to recovery is difficult and long, and here, I wish the big man on the pitch a speedy recovery.
Third, "Japanese Yao Ming": "Fuji Mountain Tip" Gangshan Gongchong
Born in 1954, he is the tallest athlete in the history of Japanese basketball, and was selected by the NBA Warriors but failed to enter the NBA to play. He is said to be a true gigantism sufferer.
When Okayama was a child, he was a normal person, only a little taller than his peers, which was completely different from the tall man who was born to play basketball and was particularly conspicuous in the crowd. Okayama had practiced baseball, judo, and judo was still black belt level, but the older Okayama grew, the more he found something was wrong.
Okayama received letters of recommendation from 30 universities at the university, hoping to become a judo player, but at that time, the height was more than 2 meters 1, so he had to give up and switch to basketball, and due to the huge height advantage, Okayama quickly became the main player of the school basketball team.
In his sophomore year, Okayama came to the University of Portland in the United States to study, hoping to become a professional basketball player, but during the physical examination, he found that he had gigantism, and his heart could not bear the high load and high-intensity confrontation of basketball, so he chose to return to China in desperation.
But Okayama, who returned to Japan, did not give up on his dream of being an athlete. After some hard work, he joined the Japanese Professional Basketball League and officially began his career. In his first year, Okayama won the title of Rookie King, becoming the most dominant center in the league. By that time, his height had grown to 2 meters 3.
In 1981, Okayama was favored by the NBA Golden State Warriors, and in the eighth round of the draft, he was selected with the 171st pick, becoming the first player in Japanese history to enter the NBA. But after the trial, the Warriors still gave up the 2-meter 34 big man.
Okayama Kyocho University only chose basketball, belongs to the monk who is halfway out of the family, but in the end because of slow action, poor athletic ability was rejected by the NBA, but in Japan, this giantism patient killed four parties, helped the team win the league championship, won the league MVP himself, twice scored the king, and is also a better mix!
Fourth, "Sultan Yao Ming": "Telephone pole" Manute Bohr
Born in Sudan in 1962, he is a professional basketball player with a height of 2.31 meters and plays as a center on the court.
Born into a tribal family in Africa, Manut is said to have hunted a lion at the age of 15. His entire family has inherited tall genes, his parents and sister are both 2 meters 03 meters tall, and his grandfather is 2 meters 39 tall.
He has a taller height and arm span than Yao Ming, but he is thinner than Zhou Qi.
He is over 2.3 meters tall, but weighs only 90 kilograms, extreme leg-to-body ratio, and wears shorts, which makes him stand on the basketball court like a pole that rocks with an unstable foundation and is embarrassed to touch him.
Because there is an illusion that the slightest touch of the leg is broken.
In 1985, the 23-year-old Manute was selected by Washington with the 30th overall pick and officially began his career.
Despite his astonishing height, Manute didn't have the slow, clumsy, extremely thin body that made him agile on the court, with the ability to play in the NBA as a professional player. However, Manute's disadvantages are obvious, his basket footwork is very amateurish, the shooting rate of medium and long-range shooting is very low, but his movement and defensive awareness is very good, in 1996, he was selected to the NBA's best defensive team second team, twice won the block king, averaging 3.34 blocks per game in the second place in history.
Manute played in the NBA for 10 seasons, but averaged only 2.6 points and 4.2 rebounds per game, which is a pale statistic for a player who is more than 2.3 meters tall.
In 1996, at the age of 34, Manute chose to retire, ending a career that was not a success. After retiring from the army, Manute was concerned about his homeland, enthusiastic about charity, held various charity boxing matches, and even donated more than $3.5 million to The Sultan, and was a good man without compromise, but fate played a joke with him.
In 2004, Manute was in a car accident while riding a taxi, and he suffered serious injuries to his neck, left knee, and chest, but due to the NBA league's rule that under 45 players cannot receive pensions, Manute's life was in trouble, and finally raised 80,000 medical expenses with the help of his former teammates.
In June 2010, Manute died of kidney failure caused by Parkinson's syndrome at the Age of 47 at the University Hospital of Virginia in the United States.
Fifth, "Joseon Yao Ming": "Giant Spirit God" Lee Myung Hoon
Born in 1969, North Koreans, 2 meters 34 tall, once selected for the Guinness Book of World Records, the world's naturally grown, the highest living person, and later this record was broken by The Mainland 2 meters 36 Bao Hee-soon.
Lee Myung-hoon is a North Korean basketball player, once the spiritual totem of the North Korean team, his idol is basketball superstar Mike Jordan, he named himself Mike Lee.
Li Mingxun still has a certain strength. Although there is also a common problem of the big man moving slowly, his shots are very soft. At the 1991 Asian Championships, he scored 55 points in the Philippines, completely confusing his opponents. The battle for fame made him the "first center in Asia" before Yao Ming's rise.
In 1997, Lee Myung-hoon had the opportunity to play in the NBA. In Ottawa, former Canadian national team coach Donohue specially trained him, and 10 teams before and after watched Lee Myung-hoon's training, but the cloud of nuclear continued to dissipate, and finally let Lee Myung-hoon's NBA dream come to naught.
Returning to China, Lee Myung-hoon had a bad fate, encountered a car accident in an accident, was seriously injured, and recuperated for a long time before returning to the arena.
The 2002 Busan Asian Games was Lee Myung-hoon's last glory, but his North Korean team was weak and was eliminated without encountering the Chinese team, and the "first center in Asia" in the two eras missed the opportunity to meet head-to-head.
After retiring from the military, Lee Myung-hoon continued to engage in basketball, and his position in North Korea was equivalent to Chairman Yao's status in China, although the achievements of the two careers were very different, but it did not affect Lee Myung-hoon's flagship status in North Korean basketball.
The excessive height makes Lee Myung-hoon after retirement in shape and inaccessible, which is completely different from Chairman Yao, who wears suits and shoes and is full of vigor and vigor. It seems that the height of 2 meters 26 meters like Yao Ming is the upper limit of normal human beings!