Will We Ever See Another Asian Center...

[Foster5k]

as good or better than Yao Ming?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v84/Foster5k/yao-ming_zpseee68707.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Foster5k/media/yao-ming_zpseee68707.jpg.html)

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:coleman:

[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.
:applause:

[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?

[avonbarksdale]

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


shut up holy shit

[mr.big35]

We will have an asian center within 5 years

[NustABut]

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

:biggums:

Can confirm, I am asian

6'1 but I have a 6'6 Wingspan.

Can I make it in the NBA?

[HomieWeMajor]

I expect to see an Asian center blow up in the next 10 years

[NumberSix]

:biggums:

Can confirm, I am asian

6'1 but I have a 6'6 Wingspan.

Can I make it in the NBA?
No April 2013's in the NBA my man.

[Myth]

We have just began seeing Asian NBA players. Over the next few decades, we will see more and more Asian players, which means we will start getting Asian centers. One of them will eventually be better than Yao, but I do think it will take quite a while.

[CavaliersFTW]

:biggums:

Can confirm, I am asian

6'1 but I have a 6'6 Wingspan.

Can I make it in the NBA?
You mean dispel right?, if you are 6-1 with a 6-6 wingspan and are asian like you said, that serves to dispel what I speculated not confirm :cheers:

[NumberSix]

Are we counting Israelis as Asians?

[Bush4Ever]

Are we counting Israelis as Asians?

I was going to ask about Russia, then post a picture of Sabonis, then a trollface, but then I was like no because Sabonis is not from the Muslimy part of Russia.

[BigMacAttack]

We will see one sooner rather then later imo.

I remember reading about and seeing footage of a guy who was 7.9 and was training in basketball....asian is fairly untapped.

[CavaliersFTW]

We will see one sooner rather then later imo.

I remember reading about and seeing footage of a guy who was 7.9 and was training in basketball....asian is fairly untapped.
Sun Ming Ming? He never made it into the NBA that was a few years back, he was big but he wasn't athletic.

[Borat_Sagdyev]

I was going to ask about Russia, then post a picture of Sabonis, then a trollface, but then I was like no because Sabonis is not from the Muslimy part of Russia.
Sabonis from LITHUANIA :facepalm

[Borat_Sagdyev]

WANG ZHELIN is the next one :rockon:

[pezt]

The first one that comes to my mind is Zhou Qi.

The first time I saw him was like 3 years ago where he absolutely dominated a Youth Tournament against players 1 year older than him. He averaged something like 40 points, 20 Rebounds, 10 blocks during the semifinal and final.
He then played a good U19 World Cup 2 years later but I have no idea what he's been doing since.
There's always the concern about age with Chinese players, but if his age is legit there is no way this kid doesn't become at least a solid NBA Center.
He had the sweetest Jump Shot I've ever seen in a kid his age and size.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGznH8uOT0c

[buddha]

if the chinese get over their obsession with ping-pong then maybe we will.

[Euroleague]

Why just Asian? I doubt there will ever be another center as good as Yao.

[Euroleague]

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

His wingspan was 7-6

[Euroleague]

Are we counting Israelis as Asians?

No, because they are Europeans.

[Euroleague]

Sabonis from LITHUANIA :facepalm

And never mind that Russians are classed as Europeans anyway.

[pezt]

And never mind that Russians are classed as Europeans anyway.

Explain to me why Israelis are European and Russians aren't?

Or maybe I understood your sentence wrong, don't know.

[alenleomessi]

Kanter?
:lol

[FireDavidKahn]

Explain to me why Israelis are European and Russians aren't?
Everything west of the Ural mountains in Russia is considered European, while everything east of the Ural mountains is considered Asian.

[Illuminati]

Still remember this classic like it was yesterday: http://youtu.be/ohHoK4-LeuY

Dat geometry, IQ is at an all-time high.

[Euroleague]

Explain to me why Israelis are European and Russians aren't?

Or maybe I understood your sentence wrong, don't know.

They are both classed as Europeans. At least, the Jews in Isreal and Russians are anyway. I'm not sure about the Palestinians, but I believe they are too.

[pezt]

They are both classed as Europeans. At least, the Jews in Isreal and Russians are anyway. I'm not sure about the Palestinians, but I believe they are too.

I agree, I just understood your sentence wrong that you thought Russians weren't European, because English isn't my first language.

[Euroleague]

Everything west of the Ural mountains in Russia is considered European, while everything east of the Ural mountains is considered Asian.

That's geographic. Are Americans really this stupid?

Politically, ideologically, culturally, etc. Russians are Europeans, not Asians. That's a fact, and you look like a complete ignorant moron for not knowing such a basic fact.

[Euroleague]

I agree, I just understood your sentence wrong because English isn't my first language.

Oh, sorry. Maybe I worded it wrong.

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

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

Dwight (part asian) is already better than Yao ever was. :confusedshrug:

[K Xerxes]

People need to stop using the word 'never'.

In 70 or so years of professional basketball, we've seen Wilt, Jordan, Barkley, Shaq, Lebron, Hakeems, Yao, heck even Manute Bol and Muggsy Bogues could qualify. All freaks and unique in some way.

The only question is whether the NBA will be dissolved by then. However, given enough time, there will be another person similar to Yao, even from Asia. More likely though, the players will become more and more unique.