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Ming ended up retiring very early playing just 9 years in the league making it to 8x All-Star and 5x All-NBA teams because of a series of ankle injuries.īut those 9-years were enough for him to make Simmons and other journalists swallow their horrendous takes and make it to the NBA Hall of Fame with career averages of over 19 points, 9 rebounds, and 2 blocks.Īlso read: Kobe Bryant thinks Samuel L Jackson should play him while he ruminates growing out his hair to look like Djangoīoth the big men entered the NBA Hall of Fame together in 2016, and the irony was Shaq was the one who welcomed Yao into the history of books of the game. They would play each other 18 times in the NBA, with Yao’s Rockets winning 8 of those encounters. So, that’s what I thought of when I first thought of Yao.” So, he’s definitely the first guy I had to like changed how I played against him, and he’s also the first guy to get it, turn around, look me right in the face and just shoot right over me. He continued, “first guy to block my shot three times in a row. He sold ‘The Ringer’ for a figure estimated at between 200 million and 300 million in early 2020. His media interests bring in substantial sums annually.

Bill has accrued monies from a number of different sources. His salary from ‘The Ringer’ is supposedly 7 million per year. Next time I tried to come up with a dunk… block,” admitted Shaq. Bill Simmons is estimated to have a fortune of 100 million. Next play, I tried to hit him with the fade-away… block. “My first impression of Yao was, ‘Who the f**k is this?’ Cuz he came in, and I tried to hit him with a smooth finger roll move… block. Bill Simmons is the founding editor of Grantland and the author of the New York Times no. Yao earned immense respect from the future legend of the game as soon as they matched up for the first time. What turned out to happen is nobody in the history or future will give trouble to The Big Aristotle as much as this “Chinese guy”. Just wanted to get that heard before the jury.” Specifically, he singled out Bill Simmonss recent Fuck Jalen Green outburst as a way to talk about the odd amount of power that awards-voting media. Repeat: This is a disaster waiting to happen. “Can’t you picture Shaq rubbing his hands together and saying, “I’m going to dunk on that Chinese guy as much as humanly possible next season”? This is a disaster waiting to happen. Simmons continued with his outrageous take which he’ll soon come to regret as bad as every other journalist who criticized the Rockets for picking up Yao over Jay Williams. Simmons’ disrespect of Yao Ming will make him eat his words within a year of watching him go against Shaquille O’Neal
