@@kylacambly4012 Especially with how different Mandarin is to western languages, its a lot harder than a native English speaker learning French or Spanish for example.
+haoran chen Wrong.... No where near D-League FOH... The media tell yall some bullshit and you agree... Gibson, Gooden, Ilgauskas, Jones, Hughes, Pollard, Snow, Marshall, Wesley,..... Solid WELL EXPERIENCED VETS who were key parts to good teams in the past.. Plus the east was weak af in 2007. Indiana was the only decent team that year. Detroit was old and finished. Nonetheless Iverson isn’t the physical powerhouse LeBron is who is playing with a mismatch every night.
Yao Ming is such a humble guy and a good person. Doesn't matter his race or nationality. When he first got to the Rockets he needed a translator. Now here he is giving a speech, saying it in American English, and then dowsing it with humor. Demonstrating his deep respect for A.I. Yao is such a class act. And so is A.I. for whole-heartedly taking it in the spirit it was meant.
@@Dada-uz2sq You missed my whole point. There are people posting things dissing on Yao Ming, judging him harshly, and disrespecting him as a person and a basketball player just because he is from China. To them I say 'As if ANY of that matters as to how good a person he is and how great a basketball player he was.' There are others criticizing him for "not speaking English" good enough. I defended Yao by giving my own personal , first hand observations of his amazing grasp of English from his first years with the Rockets till today.
@@ATLienForLife This didn't age well. He is a communist apologist, Enes called him out. Yao extended an invite to Enes to come to China and see what it's like. Enes called out the Muslim genocide in China right now demanding Yao to show him that too and Yao ghosted him blocking him on Twitter. Yao is a fraud, great basketball player Awful human being
To have a sense of humor in your native tongue is hard enough, but to be able to do it in your second language and make is seem natural, that's an art form.
@Marc Dumont i think over half the people on the planet are bilingual, i just thought an american reaching for superlatives to describe someone bilingual was kind of funny.
as a matter of fact, we CAN see Kobe accepting his HOF speech, like tupac or MJ or gorillaz, he can be made into a hologram, OH! you mean the real biology of kobe, well yeah you cant. hes bigger than that tho.
The interview is a lot deeper than most people think or even know. During a press conference, Iverson, was asked about the murder of his best friend. As he grew emotional during his response, a journalist randomly asked him about practice. Iverson looked at him with surprise and replied, “We sitting in here -- I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we in here talking about practice.” He openly expressed himself about his friends passing and how it effected him only to be abruptly asked about practice. People make it seem like he disregarded practice when he didn’t. The media flipped this to make him seem reckless and careless about basketball. Watch the press conference in its entirety to understand why he gets offended when asked about “Practice.”
The timing....the delivery...well done Yao Ming 😂👏👏👏 Credit to Allen for the ability to laugh at himself. And to Yao for learning English. Cannot imagine learning Chinese. Spanish was hard enough and that is so similar to English.
That's such a perfectly clean, well-structed joke. Start-to-finish. And it both simultaneously mocks _and_ doesn't mock Iverson at all. Hahahaha legend
This clip is all time great. A mixture of comedy and inspiration. When something simultaneously touches your heart and makes you laugh it’s truly priceless. A great gesture of humility and tasteful comedy by the great Yao Ming.
Yao was NOT a great basketball player his numbers over his career is garbage NBA just put him in because of his Race simple as that his stats are no where worthy of hall of fame Greats
@@djdevyn1967 he didn't impact the game like Shaq or Hakeem did...it is because of his race ... first seven foot Asian man who can ball a lil bit....dude not top 10 all time in blocks
I admire how yao ming shows his humbleness in this event, he even tried to make everyone laugh with his joke... Hands up to Allen Iverson and Yao ming for showing how Chinese value good manners.
Yao deserves the recognition he gets today. Whether his career was short he was at the highest level of performance throughout his entire, but short career.
I remember watching him in the NCAA tourney at Georgetown and rooting so hard, he quickly became my favorite player at the time along with Ray Allen at UCONN...man, I'm old.
Yao was a tower bro.... gravity has its ways of messing with big men unless you just physically in shape at that height to withstand everything that comes your way. But all in all, they just like Malone and Stock, came in during a era where the greats were all over the place, not taking anything away from the Great Wall him self though! #Respect
Uh, did all the guys lol-ing miss the "pound for pound, inch for inch" part of the sentence? Yao was inarguably the *most* athletic athlete of all of others in his size class. Got up and down the court, playing heavy minutes while being a team's key component on offense and defense at his size. Could spin, dream-shake low-post defenders out of their socks that were quicker than him at 7'7 and hit fade aways with as much ease as he could dunk over them. Not to mention is the best free throw shooting 7-footer in NBA history. Pound-for-pound, inch-for-inch, Yao *is* the greatest athlete of his size.
@Trap Muzik You say that like there exists a list of players in Yao's size class that were just as good or better athletes. To suggest that someone needs to be on drugs to call Yao the best athlete of his size? You must know something everyone else doesn't. Care to list the names on that list that nobody else in the world knows about? Also you might want to apply for a scouting job in the NBA because clearly someone hasn't been doing their job getting these amazing 7'5 300+ pound and above players with great finesse low-post games, fadeaways, soft shooting touch from 15-feet out down to the free throw line, that could also backdown and dunk on strong, defensive stalwarts of his day like Ben Wallace and make a HOF big-man like Shaquille O'Neal feel personally challenged every single game and call him a Top 6 center of all time, all the while having the stamina to play 34-37mins up and down the court as a primary offensive option and a team's defensive anchor. They must be growing like trees in your world. We've been so deprived.
@@wesmyone9562 It's probably a bittersweet thing for Iverson. Many people don't know but he was drunk when he said that. Or was coming off being drunk either one. His best friend died either earlier that day or the day before and he was angry that his coaches were talking about him not practicing while a man he called his best friend lay dead in the street.
He didn't make a mistake. His best friend died. He was devastated and they wanted to talk about something frivolous like practice. The only mistake made was the press for selective editing. When I saw the full statement, my mind was blown. He is amazing to have enough humor to laugh at a lie that pretty much started the end of his career.
Iverson barely made it through his speech. The audience was non stop cheering for this man shouting MVP and what not. I didn't even see MJ get that reaction.
Yao really speaks good English! Nice jab on himself using Allen's remark on "practice". But, most of all I always felt Yao had the biggest smile that makes one just want to smile for no reason!
