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Yao Ming Retires at 30

TylerDurden

By TylerDurden,
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I'm going to miss seeing Yao play. I remember everyone saying he would be a bust when he was drafted. The media thought he was too slow and too weak for the NBA. The same guy was putting up 25 & 10 back in 2006 before the injuries started to hit him hard. And he was only getting better. It's a shame that his body could not hold up.

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as a life long rockets fan this blows. had he not had the injuries he would have been the best big man EVER. he was to big and his body couldnt take the damn near year round playing. fuging chinese national team.

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Poor Yao, We barely knew thee.

I keep reading that as "we barely knee thee" :(

by most accounts, a better person than basketball player, and that is saying something.

I can only imagine what kind of career he'd have had if he had stayed healthy for a few more years...

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