In our Chinese basketball world, the most talented player is Yao Ming, who led the team to win the first and only championship trophy of the Shanghai Sharks in the CBA, after which Yao Ming logged on to the NBA and began to show his basketball talent in the world's top basketball league.
Many post-80s and post-90s chased Yao Ming and Rockets in the game is very attentive, the post-80s and post-90s are still middle school students, but many fans even skip class in order to watch yao Ming and Rockets game. Although we do not advocate this approach, it also reflects how influential Yao Ming was at that time. Although the NBA currently has Asian players such as Yamura and Yuta Watanabe, their abilities and status are far worse than Yao Ming's.
When Yao Ming was in the NBA, centers like Big Ben and Gasol could be easily suppressed, and The Warcraft Howard was physically strong and excellent, but he was also beaten by Yao Ming without a little temper, and there was Yao Ming's "eating and sleeping and playing Warcraft" among the fans. Even O'Neal, the no. 1 center in NBA league history, Yao Ming can not be left behind. But Yao Ming has also been retired for 11 years, and most of the post-zero fans have not seen Yao Ming's game, so how strong is Yao Ming at the peak? Let's hear what Kobe Bryant had to say!
Yao Ming played in the NBA for nine years, from 2005 to 2009, the four years, Yao Ming entered the peak state, these four seasons Yao Ming is basically in the double 20 club, that is, averaging 20 points + 10 rebounds per game! Led by Yao Ming, the Rockets rushed to the Western Conference Semifinals in the 2008-2009 season, which frankly means that Yao Ming has come closest to a championship since his career. In this season, as long as Yao Ming's score is more than 25 points, the Rockets have not lost, and the Rockets have only lost one game in the game with more than 20 points, it can be said that Yao Ming's performance is the barometer of the Rockets.
Yao Ming has also become the object of the NBA League's various teams, and when he is wrapped, Yao Ming can be used as a central axis to pass to the shooters who are ambushed on the perimeter! It can be said that in 2009, Yao Ming has become the best center in the league at that time, and Yao Ming in that period has almost no weaknesses, his skills are already very comprehensive, and the confrontation is becoming more and more excellent, even if the opponent fouls, Yao Ming's stable free throw can also punish the opponent.
The Western Conference semifinals Rockets and the Lakers played very glue, the first game Yao Ming let the Lakers suffer a lot, without Maddy, Yao Ming led the team to play very brilliantly, although the first game Yao Ming hit the knee, but he suddenly turned back in the players' tunnel and insisted on playing the whole game. The Lakers' three major internal lines and Kobe Bryant just can't prevent Yao Ming, and Kobe Bryant said in an interview after the game: "Facing Yao Ming, who is tall, strong and has very good skills, the Lakers have no players who can defend him one-on-one." "If you know how luxurious the Lakers' lineup was that year, how outstanding Kobe Bryant was, you can clearly understand how strong Yao Ming really was that year."
Yao Ming was the strongest inside player in the league after O'Neal, and he was also close to the NBA championship, but because of Kobe, Yao Ming and his Rockets lost the series, and then Yao Ming retired early due to injury, but no matter what, Yao Ming's achievements in the NBA that year were absolutely very high, which we can feel from Kobe's evaluation of Yao Ming that year.