Will We Ever See Another Asian Center...

[Foster5k]

as good or better than Yao Ming?



Just how rare was Yao Ming?

[Mass Debator]

Very rare. There has only been 1 Asian center that has started at center out of 11,839 players ever to play the position. Better to look for the next Jeremy Lin.

[Black and White]

I don't see it happening

[Bush4Ever]

Well, we got like 3 billion years until the Sun boils us alive (or whatever the timeline is).

So yeah, probably at least 1 or 2.

[Smook A.]

Im happy to say the Rockets had the greatest asian basketball player ever.

[Marlo_Stanfield]

there are many HUGE asian people. if the globalisation continues like it does at the moment, college scouts will eventually spot a HUGE asian guy with skills who will become a great Center.
will he become as great as YAO?? unlikely but then again Yao may have become a top 5 GOAT center if he never got injured

[redhonda76]

Or any center at that height with that type of mobility, coordination, skill, and fundamental.

[moe94]

Or any center at that height with that type of mobility, coordination, skill, and fundamental.

[NumberSix]

Kanter?

[Smook A.]

Kanter?

Enes Kanter is Turkish

[rhowen4]

Well, we got like 3 billion years until the Sun boils us alive (or whatever the timeline is).

So yeah, probably at least 1 or 2.

this. also meteors, supernova, aliens, technological accident, planet can't sustain us, virus, ice age, volcanic eruption, or something else science can't explain

[NumberSix]

Enes Kanter is Turkish

Right.

[CavaliersFTW]

Just speculating here but Asians, like Europeans, might not have a high ratio of people that fall under the 'ideal' proportions that help most NBA players (long arms/limbs). Typical NBA centers that are let's say 6-9 to 7-1 in range of height will have wingspans in the range of 7-1 to 7-7. Yao Ming for example was 7-5.75 without shoes, which is absolutely ridiculous, but he 'only' had a 7-5 wingspan. Most NBA centers a couple inches shorter than him have that same length. So the reason there aren't a bunch of Asian NBA players I THINK might have something to do with the fact that they typically don't have great length, though I could be proven wrong if draft data of more asians surfaced that revealed a significant amount of Asians can/do possess a sufficient amount of length. Our sample pool is currently very low:

Yao Ming
7-5.75 without shoes
7-5 wingspan

Yi Jianlian
6-11 without shoes
7-0.25 wingspan

Jeremy Lin
6-3 without shoes
6-5 wingspan

[NumberSix]

There was an Iranian center in the NBA recently.

[Black and White]

There was an Iranian center in the NBA recently.

Haddadi?