Metta World Peace: Yao Ming was the most selfless superstar I’ve ever met. It’s unreal. He was clearly the best player in our @HoustonRockets team , and I never heard him complain when he didn’t touch the ball. But he would always bail us out .
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Yao Ming
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Born: 09/12/80
Height: 7-5 / 2.26
Weight:296 lbs. / 134.3 kg.
Earnings: $93,390,336 ($115,897,334*)
Born: 09/12/80
Height: 7-5 / 2.26
Weight:296 lbs. / 134.3 kg.
Earnings: $93,390,336 ($115,897,334*)
“He was always at games early in my career, and he just used to always come up to me and give me advice about certain things,” Favors said. “You know, we just used to talk, and he’d tell stories.” Favors, who stands 6-foot-9 and weighs about 265 pounds, recalled how Eaton was one of the few people he’d ever come across who could make him feel small. “I mean, he was how tall — 7-3, 7-4? Yeah, 7-4. The only other player that I played against that was taller than that was Yao Ming, my rookie year,” Favors said. “He was a big guy, he was a big guy. There was a reason why he was one of the best shot-blockers in the NBA at his time.”
How does your experience playing professional basketball inform the way you run your wine company? Yao Ming: “Both are full-time, year-round jobs. Both require teamwork and vision. You need to trust your teammates and know that the victory comes from collaboration, preparation and hard work.”
Were any of your Houston Rockets teammates into wine? Yao Ming: “Dikembe Mutombo loves wine. Some of the coaches enjoyed wine as well.”
What was the first good wine you ever drank? Yao Ming: “The first great wine I drank was a Napa Valley Cabernet. I don’t remember the winery, but I remember the occasion. My friend Dikembe Mutombo and I used to go to dinner together when we were on the road with the Rockets. Dikembe always wanted steak. We shared a bottle of Napa Cabernet and I enjoyed it very much.”
Mark Berman: Tad Brown, who’s stepping down as the #Rockets CEO, on the highlights from his 20 years with the franchise: “There are too many, everything. Yao Ming and I started within the same week..the friendships I’ve made..the Hall of Fame coaches and players, the great playoff runs.”
Yao Ming’s Yao Family Winery will auction an NFT wine pairing on Wednesday with some of the proceeds going toward community organisations fighting against anti-Asian discrimination in the US. The former Houston Rockets star founded the Napa Valley-winery, with the first wines released in 2011.
