About Yao Ming's retirement.

You should be clear that all the people who have come into contact with Yao Ming (journalists, commentators, editors, etc. ) everyone is in awe of his personality and way of doing things. It can be said that Yao is a monumental figure in China basketball, which is unprecedented. Kobe said that Yao is a bridge between Chinese and Western cultures, and his departure will undoubtedly lead to the decline of basketball in China. Maybe there will be a better "Yao Ming" in the future, but for those of us who skip classes to watch the rocket game and stay up late to watch the ball, these wonderful days are gone forever, and Yao will always be unique. The following is an article in the basketball tiger pounce forum, which is written objectively. You can have a look.

1 retired

Until 2: 20 pm on July 20th11,I was still waiting until I heard Yao Ming say "retire". It's like a team falling behind 3-0 in the series and 20 points behind in the fourth away game. Usually at this time, you will be calmer than you think. You know a lot of things have been solved, but "nothing has been solved before that moment."

Then, the dust settled.

Yesterday, Xinhua News Agency asked Yao Ming again whether he meant the end of NBA career or the end of the whole basketball career. Yao Ming confirmed that his career as an athlete was over. Then he added Yao's words in a very humorous tone, saying that his basketball career is not over yet-as he said before, he left the court, not basketball.

Yesterday afternoon, I sat on a channel of Shanghai Radio and TV Station. The host asked me: "Is it possible for Yao Ming to come back?" I replied that there are generally three kinds of NBA players who plan to return. Rain man and Sprewell are poor and come out to ask for money; Magic, Jordan and Cousy are not seriously injured, and their comeback is linked to the interests of the team; I went to other leagues and tried to come back ... Yao Ming seems to have nowhere to go. therefore ...

Chatting with a media friend in the evening. He held a press conference in Yao Ming, where the wind and smoke decayed and the grass burned all day. We are talking about ten words:

"Is it clean?"

"I have retired."

"It's too rare."

"yes."

The week before, my ears were full of various statements. "NBA players don't need to apply for retirement at all, just retire themselves." "Retired." "Alas, my life is bitter." "It may not be clean." "We may be ready by the end of last year." Wait, wait, wait To borrow the sincere words of a editing teacher at the beginning of this year:

"To tell the truth, we all know Yao Ming's injury. This is similar to euthanasia. I know that the result is there, but everyone still has some hope, so no one will find it. "

Speaking of retirement, he is no longer the center of Houston Rockets 1 1,1a Shanghainese born in September 1980, with a height of 226 cm. Every sweat pore of him has a thin thread composed of media, interests, prestige and transactions, which involves hundreds of millions of hearts around him and affects the whole body. Every fracture of his injured left foot may be related to someone's mortgage in the next ten years. So he can finally "retire cleanly". I can imagine what happened around him in the past week. One month before and after LeBron's "decision" last year was enough to make a documentary. The story of Yao Ming in these two weeks is the same. How many negotiations, how many details, how many meetings (my friend was still talking about Yao Ming at 2 am), how many unified statements, how many seesaws? -We just can't see it.

After waking up, the day passed. We officially live in the era of "Yao Ming no longer plays basketball".

thank you

Yesterday, Yao Ming's retirement conference was called "Xie Ming". He kept saying thank you in the first half. Basketball, life, family, coach, teammates, sharks and pythons, honey and black, times. The list is still growing. This is the bright side: it's really not a one-way process for young Xia to fall off a cliff, meet a living Lei Feng teacher, lose a century-old skill, take a thousand-year-old Excalibur, take ten thousand handfuls of silver, and then happily go to the Jianghu to brush his experience.

But last night, when I was chatting with my friends, I summed it up like this:

"In the final analysis, each of us must be' Xie Ming'."

Needless to say, the vast majority of basketball practitioners in China, as well as those who have gained something from it, have benefited from Yao Ming to some extent. Fuller once quoted various quotations to explain that "world history can be divided into before Alexander the Great and after Alexander the Great". For China sports media, similarly, the times can be divided into before Yao Ming and after Yao Ming. Compared with 200 1, the Chinese sports media of 201has a lot of things from common sense to meticulous level. For most ordinary NBA fans who have never seen a game in Yao Ming, this influence exists: because of the existence of Yao Ming, various live broadcasts and channels of the NBA, interest groups have different investments in the NBA-of course, they occasionally complain that they broadcast too many rockets, and so on. Simply put, because of Yao Ming, we can see more balls and have more companions and ways to talk about them. The Chinese media resources of 20 1 1 are definitely not enough, which is a far cry from 2002.

Of course, it also includes all kinds of people who profit from hacking him.

3 Yao hei

In my guess, after Yao Ming retires, the professional Yao Hei, that is, the sober truth emperor who insists that "Yao Ming is just a false image created by CCTV and Chinese media and fans", will continue to chase after Yao Ming's injury for a while, show his true colors, and then shift his target to pursue the next role they think is "praised by CCTV and Chinese media", or rather, fans of that role.

Professional Yao Hei's mentality and techniques are actually very simple, and custom logic (XXX is the most important indicator! Yao Mingcan should not do this), set a high standard (nothing compared with XXX), and jointly attack (Yao Ming, CCTV and China officials are equal, so they should all be criticized as a whole). Therefore, over the years, Yao Hei's standards for Yao Ming are different and often change: first, 20+ 10, then the first team, then spiking, blocking, entering the playoffs, entering the second round and finally winning the championship, and so on. Ordinary Yao Hei is much more naive and simple, and he is picky about topics such as "running fast and jumping fast" and "not as flexible as sharks".

You can understand Yao Hei's mentality in this way. Yao Hei's preset virtual target is not Yao Ming himself, but a concept called "Yao Ming", a label. In other words, it doesn't matter what Yao Ming did, but an "anti-Yao Ming" gesture is enough.

Therefore, for Yao Hei, the media propaganda imposed on Yao Ming and the following Yao fans are their real goals. In many concepts of Yao Hei, "Yao Ming" = "mainstream media" = "commercial boasting" = "some Yao fans who know little about NBA". Americans generally agree with the good image of Yao Ming media, but for the rebellious Yao Hei, "Why does Yao Ming always praise Wei Zhengguang in front of the media?" Some emotions of Yao Hei can be summarized as follows:

"The media is grandiose, we are the truth, and we are ignorant and have to attack; Attacking the people you support is attacking all of you. " This rebellious indignation of "we will crack down on whatever the media praises" keeps all kinds of carnival-style fights going on.

Yao Ming was attacked by various interest groups: his team needed his perfect business image; The Basketball Association and the media set him up as a savior bearing all the hopes of China basketball; Yao Hei, who was rebellious, was not satisfied with the image of this label, so they attacked CCTV and Wei Zhengguang with Yao Ming as the representative ... So, all this became a game of not advancing or retreating: Yao Ming was hanged, written as a label, and then praised and criticized by both sides.

Yao and Hei have different occupations.

In 2009, an editor suggested that I write an article attacking Yao Ming. After waiting for a while, I said that Yao Ming played well in the Rockets, and he was not injured. Why did you scold him? The conversation after that is roughly as follows.

A: Your words are not as sharp as before.

Not exactly. It's just that there are too many commentators watching the ball. I don't think it is easy for anyone. As long as it is not a waste of talent, it is not easy to play well. Don't be dark if you play well.

A: You can't quarrel if you are so peaceful.

Yao Ming thanked Mihei. In fact, without Yao Hei's rebellious mood, Yao Ming's topic could not be sharp forever-this is an era when good people are singing praises but there is no click-through rate, and controversial topics occupy the page.

Of course, now, the topic of Yao Ming is no longer noisy. He turned and walked away.

Four sharks, giant salamanders

Yao Ming thanked the shark and the giant salamander yesterday. He said that these two men were his targets. Without these two people, there would be no Yao Ming today.

That was two years ago.

Yao Ming set foot on CBA in 1997, when Dazhi and Bayi were still at the peak of basketball in China. 1998-2000 CBA is still a classic, which lies in the confrontation between the three centers moving to the Great Wall in those two years. You can clearly see Bater's fixed-point three points and high-level cooperation, big attack under the basket, and the three points of Yao Ming in the opening match in 2000. It's really a changing time for China fans who are still watching Ji Minshang and Dan Tao fight for the world giants at the 1994 World Championships and are worried about Zheng Wu, Sun Jun, Hu Weidong and Wu Qinglong. China's giants stood up like deformed autobots overlooking Asia, and Xu Zhangxun and Yassin suddenly became less worthy of attention.

During the four years from 65438 to 0998-2002, the progress of Yao Ming was terrible. In 2000, he and Hu Weidong won the CBA championship with three figures each. 200 1, almost the king of insider, thus showing the strength of Liu Yudong, Li Nan and even the whole August 1st terror in the finals. In 2002, he achieved unprecedented rule over CBA. The battle against August 1st was China's version of 1967 Chamberlain, and Philadelphia beat the Celtics. Then the number one scholar in 2002.

He was entangled with sharks in 2002-06. On June 5438+ 10, 2003, hundreds of millions of spectators watched Yao Sha's first battle, as well as his three consecutive blocked shots and the last dunk in overtime; In 2004, his first playoff VS the last playoff of the Sharks Lakers; Controversy over all-star starting; The topic of giant confrontation; Until June 2006, 165438+ 10, he scored 34 points 14 rebounds in Miami, the same course.

Not only that.

To some extent, Yao Ming survived the initial fire in his NBA career. The pressure of not being able to make a trip after being selected, all kinds of prejudices that I assumed after coming to the United States, and the lessons learned from the unhappy basketball association. He is the first person to truly enter the professional basketball world in this unprofessional land. Looking back that year, Wang made his debut for the Mavericks and scored 6 points. How many times has CCTV5 been replayed? And how much pressure did the cold storage he met after that give him? He fell into the trap and Yao Ming escaped.

To some extent, sharks have contributed to the rapid rise of Yao Ming's status. The whole topic of Yao Shark vs. Yao is like an authentic WWE propaganda. In 2002, Yao Ming scored the first 20 points of his career in LA. Buckley went to kiss the donkey; Staples fans shouted, "Yao, wait for the shark!" " "Shark has just won three consecutive championships and three finals MVP, which is the overlord of the times; The league center is depressed and worried that no one will try his Zijin hammer; Yao shark confrontation; Yao Ming continues to cover sharks; Yao Ming still couldn't carry the shark, but the rocket won. Shaq dominated Ewing's Eastern All-Star starting from the beginning, and it was not until 2003 that he lost to Yao Ming for the first time.

There will never be such a huge drama of gratitude and resentment, which is interlocking and dense. Everything is so coincidental-partial scored the first 20 points in Los Angeles, partial shark is not here, partial shark has just won three consecutive championships; Shark and Yao Ming are both top scholars, but their styles are very different-skin color, physique, attack style and free throw. ...

However, they retired on 20 1 1.

5 style

Two and a half years ago, it was said that when the NBA was over 7' 3 (2,265,438+0 cm), there were three kinds of life besides the walk-on represented by He Shengzhen. Thin people like Murray Sang and Bradley have been called soft eggs all their lives. Mark eaton only defended and did not attack all his life; The careers of Smeets, sampson, Big Z and Sabonis are full of the following words: knee, leg, cruciate ligament, ankle, absence and steel nail. In 2009, Hassan Tabit entered the bank, and there was another 22 1 cm. His hardships in the past two years are obvious to all.

In May 2002, Yao Ming was still a healthy, flexible, thin and accurate young center. His foothold in the NBA relies on dexterous movement, soft touch, and the big dream signboard skill of "catching the ball with his left back and then crossing the baseline". When this move first appeared, the NBA was amazed. In fact, it was also a kind of helplessness: the strength was not enough, and if it was not low, it had to rely on the rhythm.

In August, 2005, Yao Ming was overbearing, heavy and injured. In those years, he was one of the most terrible low-level attack weapons in the West. Sharks are running around, Duncan is playing pick-and-roll, Boozer is wandering in the UCLA system, and Dirk is still playing with the basket. Yao Ming is the last giant in the west. Behind 20+ 10, continuous injuries.

2008-09 season, a perfect season. 77 Health Tournament, the second round in the West. This is his first and only season of insider rule and health. But you know, this is the last time. On May 4th, 2009, he was the brightest light. In the first Western Conference semifinal game since Houston Rockets 1997, he scored 28 points 10 rebounds at home of the Lakers, and at the last moment, the king returned and walked back from the aisle.

You can think that this is a real farewell war. After the injury, he played seven more NBA games.

Nine years, but actually there are only seven seasons. How to describe a Chinese dream?

May, 2002, just like the Tai Chi propaganda video when he first joined the league. He played the role of Jet Li in The Expendables. Facing a tall and mighty opponent, he took a soft, intelligent, humorous, light and skillful protagonist, as if Jackie Chan had flown down from furniture, veranda, floor and helicopter. He was smart enough to dial 1000 pounds and then pretend. "He always jumps, why not just dunk?" "He lacks strength" as the reason of "Yao Ming soft egg".

Yao Ming in the 2005-09 season was not so smart. In 2002-05, his problem was that he was not in place; In 2009, his problem was that he was bypassed when he reached the deep position. An ironic contrast, a magnificent tragedy. During 2005-09, he went to that position with his strength, relying on, squeezing, flipping and throwing. Come hard, strong and condescending. However, his criticism during this period was "hurtful, heavy and unsightly, not as flexible as in 2002". Wait, wait, wait

Yao Ming's talent in moving, jumping and wingspan is not as good as that of giant salamander. His height advantage hides the weakness of injury. In fact, if in 2002-05, he was still relying on talent and intelligence, then in 2005-09, he was incredibly diligent and car-scrapping. In 2008, he took part in the Olympic Games with injuries. On May 4, 2009, the king of Los Angeles returned, and his car-scrapping reached its peak. In fact, he came back twice in 2008 and 20 10. After coming back with injury in 2009, you can no longer describe him as "soft".

Or he and the shark

Cold jokes in reality.

Before shaquille entered the NBA from 65438-0992, Jabbar's graceful hook, the pace of big dreams, the left waist turn-over shot, Ewing's jump shot, David Robinson's "Horse stance", mchale's step up and down, and Willis' somersault hook were all standard center routines. When the shark's forced dunk and forced baseline turn first appeared, it was considered as a strange move against the trend, just like the sword, sword and halberd fighting moves all over the world, only Li Yuanba's roaring Zijin hammer. Results In 2002, when Yao Ming entered the trade, the techniques displayed in China Investment, Turning over and Hook Shooting were exactly those in NBA textbooks. However, people who are used to shark Zijin hammer will think that this whole set of movements is very soft and ostentatious, which is a heresy of "why doesn't he dunk like a shark?"

He and the shark have similar results. In 2009, Shark said he was the last pure center and the last big man. In fact, so did Yao Ming in the 2005-09 season. At the beginning, the giants with the name of "unorthodox center" became the template of "the last pure center of the times".

Will there be a giant willing to do such a thing? -Training strength, keeping healthy, walking, asking for the ball, leaning over, turning over, hooking, devotion, skillful footwork, reading double-team, dividing the ball, protecting the basket, and blocking the position-all these technical details will be easily offset by the phrase "they are tall" or "they are strong".

Throughout the NBA career, Yao Ming's ball style has changed from light to heavy, from elegance to hard shoulder, from cleverness to diligence, from health to injury. His responsibilities peaked from August 2008 to May 2009. China national team, Beijing local Olympic Games; Rockets, the first Western Conference semifinal since 1997. Injuries all the way, two peaks. It's like fate:

"Can play health, but do a supporting role like 2002-05; Or become the core like a man, but will experience injuries in 2005-08. "

He used Van Gundy's praise of "the most diligent in the whole league" to maximize his potential and almost overdraw. Of course, he knows his injury better than anyone else, but he chose this road. Is the so-called benevolence.

Seven injuries

Yao Ming missed only two NBA games in the 2002-05 season and has never been healthy since.

In the summer of 2005, the spur of the left ankle was removed and the left toe was injured.

In 2006, the left toe was injured in turn, and then the right leg tibia was fractured.

In 2008, he suffered a stress fracture of his left foot and then came back at the Olympic Games.

In the summer of 2009, he broke his left foot against the Lakers, and then had major surgery in the summer and rested for a year.

20 10 12 months stress fracture (second time).

He only hurt his big toe and right foot once. Compared with the troubled left foot, it is much more peaceful. The main problem in recent years is the left foot.

From June 5438 to February 2006, his right leg fracture was knocked out, which was considered a "hard injury". In 2008- 10, the left foot injuries were two stress fractures (2008 and 20 10) and one fracture (against the Lakers in 2009), which belonged to "soft injury". With luck, hard injuries can be avoided, but soft injuries can't be avoided.

In 2005, he came out to play the Asian Championship after the operation of left foot spur. Champion.

In April 2006, he took part in the world championship after the operation on the little toe of his left foot.

Stress fracture in 2008 (what is stress? He came back early to play the Beijing Olympic Games.

Until last week, there were voices expecting Yao Ming to "retire from the NBA, but continue to play for China". So, when I heard that he finally "retired", the first feeling was incredibly relaxed. You see: the two most outstanding centers in China's history, one is disobedient and frozen at the peak; One is very obedient and comes back to play ball every summer. Results 3 1 retired before he was old.

Eight people returned safely.

You can understand the momentum in all aspects. They need Yao Ming to play any small games, because the results are under pressure; They need Yao Ming's name, because as long as he doesn't "retire" and become a topic, he can continue to operate and add new blood to the big topic of basketball in China. He is the universal tool of China basketball: pillar, fig leaf, topic and so on.

He can jump out, very clean.

Yesterday, he held a press conference, thanking basketball first, then life, coach and SMG (my friend sensitively pointed out: "He didn't thank CCTV!") )), thanks to the times, and so on. This order is unreasonable in China. In China, when an athlete retires, he should not be so romantically grateful for basketball and life. He should thank the country and leaders first. But Yao Ming did it. This, like his retirement, seems ordinary and hard-won.

In 2002, he needed to be redeemed to go to the NBA. He went. At that time, it belonged to China Basketball. In 2008, the situation changed subtly. Yao Ming still belongs to China Basketball, but China Basketball can't give him orders as it did in 2002. His fame, status, international influence and appeal to ordinary fans in China have become the mainstay of basketball in China.

Before he appeared, "whether a player should play for the national team" and "which is more important, a player's personal career or the national team's record" were not issues in China. But now, the answers to these questions have become diversified. He can hold a very independent retirement conference, he can thank basketball and life first, and he can thank the great times. When his daughter was born, even her nationality was disputed. In a word, he jumped out of the position that an athlete should thank and be driven by the country.

2002- 1 1NBA career endless training, competition, injury recovery, surgery, being recalled to the Olympic Games and Asian Championships every summer, CBA in the previous five years, and hard training before-this can finally come to an end. At least he himself-a giant born in 1980 with a height of 226 cm, instead of Yao Ming with numerous business images-can take a rest.

(Besides ... since then, the most terrible, buggy, perverse and brainless monster in the NBA2K game series has disappeared. If I were NBA2K 1 1, I would publish a Chinese version of "NBA2K 1 1 Jordan+Yao Ming Memorial". )

9 Yao Laoban

Yao Ming's life in recent 3 1 year includes 9 NBA seasons and 5 CBA seasons. He has been a professional basketball player for nearly half of his life, not including his professional team career before going to CBA. The world watched him from 1997, a tall shot blocker, to a god-like man in the 2002 World Championships, to a low-ranking monster who killed the gods in the 2006 World Championships, and then to the warrior center who hobbled out of the aisle of Staples Arena in the first semi-final in the west in 2009 ... Time flies and strung his portrait. His latest transformation is 2009.

This change is unprecedented.

During his nine years in the NBA, he earned a salary of 94 million dollars. However, other income is several times more than this. His advertising endorsements in the first few years of the NBA can almost make him ignore the rookie's four-year income of $6,543,800+0,800. What is more amazing than money is his reputation and influence. He has a top influence in the sports history of China, and he has successfully expanded this influence. Team Yao has been in operation since 2002. Yao Ming's influence covers all aspects of sports in China, and he finally has the equal strength with the China Basketball General Administration. It is no exaggeration to say that he and the interest+media group he represents are unique in China sports.

He is the boss of the Shanghai team, similar to the situation of magician and Jordan: that is their most familiar field; Just as Jordan bought the Charlotte Bobcats in North Carolina, Yao Ming bought Shanghai as a gift. However, his play space is still above Jordan.

Jordan's Bobcats are facing a huge empire that has been in business for 60 years and has been painstakingly built by david stern, while Yao Ming, who is 20 1 1, is somewhat like a young migrant worker returning home from a big city. He brought the money, fame and skills of working in the city back to the countryside (whether CBA is rural or urban-rural fringe remains to be discussed ...). He is like a duck to water in the media in China, and can even win the hearts of the people and make you king.

Therefore, Yao Ming has enough influence and experience to change the national team and CBA league, so as to promote the reform of basketball system in China. Just as the cardinal once scolded the bosses of the NBA headquarters with an order, and Mr. Danny Biyasan once forced the NBA to create a 24-second system, which changed basketball from then on, Yao Ming has a similar influence in China. In fact, basketball in China is easier to reform than other sports with a long history in China. During Yao Ming's nine years in the NBA, China basketball has been exposed to enough NBA knowledge from media to fans, which is common in the world, and it is much easier to promote the reform.

10 Yao Ming era

In the 2004-09 season, he was the strongest center in the West.

It can be ranked as one of the best centers in NBA history with Tiangou and Sikema.

After Bill Walton, he is the most injured star center.

The NBA has the best business image in history, and it is also a foreign player who knows how to deal with the media and keep his image.

One of the top centers in the history of FIBA.

Asia+China is undoubtedly the first person in the history of basketball.

Enough to rank with Li Ning and others as one of the most successful figures in the history of professional sports in China.

These are all things he did on the basketball court. besides ...

A summary two years ago:

An athlete can perform a simple epic through the lens and experience a small war. Through the lens, he gave us the factors that the heroes of the past gave us: wisdom, struggle, anti-tragedy, physical fitness and human strength.

For a long time, the Houston Rockets were the home team of China fans because of the media propaganda and the thinking habit of "one national gold medal". Every goal he throws in the NBA is like every kick Bruce Lee kicks in the face of a huge and bulky foreigner in the movie. However, Bruce Lee's story is only in movies. The foreigners he defeated would clap their hands and laugh with him behind the camera. His myth has been edited, arranged and rehearsed, and his success includes not only his thunderous fist, but also his performance ability in front of the camera. And Yao Ming, every step of his running, is real in the camera. Every game he plays is a realistic movie. Before 2002, the honor he won on behalf of Shanghai was real; After 2002, the huge digital system of NBA supported this reality. He performed a modern epic alone.

We in China used to be the greatest empire in the world, and then we experienced a well-known disaster. Therefore, Bruce Lee smashed the signboard of "the sick man of East Asia" in the film, and Yao Ming's success in the United States can be realized as a little psychological satisfaction-at least there is a pure China to conquer the United States, conquer the top of the world, conquer the rich and arrogant paradise empire, and in the way of China people, this means the greatness of China's spirit. Since 2002, every shot of Yao Ming has shuttled freely. Everywhere the camera goes, it is full of American details, American streets, American stadiums, American training camps and American world. It is the NBA revered by countless people in China for a long time in basketball and the United States revered in life.

Therefore, Yao Ming represents the most appropriate image of a Chinese dream: his talent is not amazing, but he started his life in the United States with cleverness and diligence. The setbacks he encountered and the process of overcoming them gathered in front of us through cameras and news, telling a tortuous story. His pace and prestige, his struggle, his self-mockery and his sufferings are all like an inspirational book. There is a giant like this fighting on the other side. Like this country, he has an unattainable skeleton and ancient wisdom. He is a little weak and thin, supplemented by diligence, changing with each passing day.

After he retired, ...

We have seen too many sports flag figures in China. Rong Guotuan, Zhuang Zedong, Xu Haifeng, Wang Yifu, Gao Min, Fu Mingxia, Rong Zhixing, Gu Guangming, Yang Chen, Deng Yaping, Lang Ping, Li Ning, Liu Xiang. Yao Ming is not the farthest one, but perhaps the most successful one in media, business and inspiration. He didn't set a world record and dominate a certain sport like Liu Xiang, but along the way, he overcame adversity, he trained diligently, he gradually made the NBA accept his way, his transformation in 2005, his repeated confrontation with injuries in 2005 1 1, and he was injured again on 20 10/.

Everything

That's it. Toyota Center, Shanghai Luwan Gymnasium, Wukesong Basketball Hall. Shanghai team's 15, thin figure, the three-pointer he hit in the opening match in 2000, the bitter confrontation in the CBA final in 2006, 5438+0, the right hand he shot from the free throw line in the CBA final in 2002, Hart's happy expression after making up the shot, the champion flag in CBA in 2002, the name of the 2002 NBA No.1 pick-up show read by david stern, and the best in. The first NBA game was knocked down, and he made a low-handed layup at the baseline. At the beginning of the first Yao Shark War, he gave the shark three hats and shook his head with a wry smile when the shark blew down 30+. Buckley and kenny smith also had donkeys, his jokes, the anger of Athens in 2004, the ecstasy after defeating Serbia and Montenegro, and he stood at the jumping point when he came back from the 2008 Olympic Games. During his recovery, he sat and practiced shooting, diligent and tired. In June 2006, he scored 34 points 14 rebounds on the shark's head. On May 4, 2009, with five minutes left in the first game of the Western Conference semifinals, he landed on his left knee and hobbled off. With four minutes left, he came back from the aisle, walked onto the stage, threw into the CIC, caught Ariza's three-point rebound, turned beautifully, made the eighth free throw on the spot, and sealed the victory-

Finally, the picture is set in a tall red figure with her hands akimbo, number 1 1.

The noise is still in my ears, but the game is over. Not everyone left the stadium, so we can still see how Yao Ming played in the end in our memory. We can still remember many mornings, counting the time to turn on the TV and seeing the words Toyota Center Rockets vs Team. Twenty minutes later, we started shouting "Why not pass the ball to Yao Ming". We still remember how to discuss the debate about which second round game the Rockets chose, who changed at the end of the bench, which player the Rockets signed from NBDL, and what regional finals he participated in in in high school. The sound is still there, but time has passed. The audience will gradually leave, and there will be a hand to pull the curtain, which will be the curtain call for our youth watching football and the era when we believe in this China giant.

Language and memory are like the sea, and we can only appreciate its beauty from a distance. Only when we go far away and forget the meanness, injuries and technical statistics of Blake and Rockets will we begin to understand that the period we just witnessed is the greatest idol era in China's sports history.