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Will We Ever See Another Asian Center...
as good or better than Yao Ming?
Just how rare was Yao Ming?
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Decent college freshman
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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.
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Local High School Star
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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.
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Red Nation
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Im happy to say the Rockets had the greatest asian basketball player ever.
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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
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Go NY GO NY GO
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Or any center at that height with that type of mobility, coordination, skill, and fundamental.
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Re: Will We Ever See Another Asian Center...
Originally Posted by redhonda76
Or any center at that height with that type of mobility, coordination, skill, and fundamental.
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Big Booty Hoes!!
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Red Nation
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Originally Posted by NumberSix
Kanter?
Enes Kanter is Turkish
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Relax
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Originally Posted by 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.
this. also meteors, supernova, aliens, technological accident, planet can't sustain us, virus, ice age, volcanic eruption, or something else science can't explain
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Big Booty Hoes!!
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Originally Posted by Smook A.
Enes Kanter is Turkish
Right.
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NBA Legend
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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
Last edited by CavaliersFTW; 02-04-2014 at 05:26 PM.
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Big Booty Hoes!!
Re: Will We Ever See Another Asian Center...
There was an Iranian center in the NBA recently.
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Re: Will We Ever See Another Asian Center...
Originally Posted by NumberSix
There was an Iranian center in the NBA recently.
Haddadi?
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