Never missed an All-Star, consecutive capping O'Neill! Earning $93.39 million, is he a supergiant

At the 2002 draft, when David Stern pronounced Yao's name at the draft, everyone boiled. This is the first top pick in China and even Asia to enter the NBA, and everyone has high hopes for Yao Ming, but on the other side of the ocean, many people in the league are not optimistic about Yao Ming.

8 years career

Yao, who is 2.29 meters, was once thought to be just a big man with well-developed limbs. In his NBA debut, Yao Ming wandered out of form, was scored by O'Neal Jr. in consecutive singles, played 11 minutes, 0 points, 2 rebounds, 2 turnovers and 3 fouls, and booed on the spot. But that was just the beginning, and after adapting to the rhythm of the NBA, Yao gradually established himself in the NBA and began to dominate the NBA's interior line. In the first "Yao Shark Showdown", Yao Ming was slightly inferior with 10 points and 10 rebounds, but in that game, Yao Ming contributed 6 blocks, including O'Neal, who blocked three consecutive times at his peak, which became a forever classic and won everyone's respect.

In his seventh game in the NBA, he scored double-doubles and in the eighth game with 20+, punching Barkley in the face and making the latter kiss the ass in public. In the tenth game, Yao Ming's score had reached 30+, and Yao Ming began to slowly realize his talent. In the first five seasons of his NBA career, Yao Ming improved year by year, from a rookie averaging 13 points per game to an All-Star center averaging 25 points per game, Yao Ming used his strength to punch everyone who did not think highly of him in the face.

The soft feel and superb ball intelligence and dominance under the basket are the best summaries of Yao's career. During his eight-year NBA career, Yao Ming never missed an All-Star and was selected as a starting center. He was also named to the All-Rookie First Team once, the All-NBA Third Team three times, and the All-NBA Second Team twice. He played 15,818 minutes in his career, scoring 9,247 points, 4,494 rebounds, 769 assists, 189 steals and 920 blocks.

In the eight years of playing in the NBA, Yao Ming has earned a total of 93.39 million US dollars, which is the most among local players in China. Not only that, Yao Ming's jersey was successfully retired from the Rockets, and he himself was successfully inducted into the NBA Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016, which is an affirmation of Yao's career and respect for Yao.

Is he considered a supergiant

Compared with several other Chinese players who have entered the NBA, Yao Ming is more well-known and more influential, as the first player in China and even Asia to log in to the NBA as a champion, Yao Ming lived up to expectations, gained a firm foothold in the NBA, and made players on the other side of the ocean have a different view of Chinese players and even Asian players.

Compared with other superstars in the same position, Yao Ming's career is slightly short, and at the same time it is slightly bleak, but at least in that era, Yao Ming was already a leading player in the league at that time, and it is no exaggeration to call him a superstar, and his influence even far exceeds that of many players of the same position.

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