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Book claims China bred Yao Ming for basketball

By InsideHoops.com | Jan. 18, 2006
A book by an experienced writer claims it was no accident Yao Ming became a basketball player; that the powers that be in China steadily pushed him and held him to that pursuit.

Operation Yao Ming, published by Penguin Group and written by Brook Larmer, a former Newsweek and Christian Science Monitor journalist, says that Chinese officials spent many years anticipating Yao Ming's birth, literally waiting for him to exist because of who his parents were. And from the moment he was born, the powers that be made sure he'd be big like his parents, and made him become a basketball player.

The book claims that Yao Ming's parents were forced to become basketball players because of their size, and they were strongly "encouraged" to marry each other so that their children would be big like they were.


Operation Yao Ming says that the parents didn't want Yao involved, but they couldn't really prevent it. Yao was forced to play basketball his entire life, given growth supplements to make him even bigger than he already was for his age, and raised to become a basketball player whether he liked it or not.

And apparently he didn't like it at all. Larmer writes that Yao wasn't good at basketball for much of his youth, hated playing it, but was made to keep going.

The book also discusses more about Yao's parents, the experiences another Chinese basketball player (Wang Zhizhi) went through, the process of getting Yao out of professional Chinese basketball so the NBA could draft him, various other basketball and political-related business dealings, and much more.

Same thing happened with Jerome James.

Posted by Marv:

Same thing happened with Jerome James.

so awesome...

Seriously ?? JJ went through the same thing ?? I would like to read the story !!

hey where were those growth supplements when I was growing up! All we had were those "milk, it does the body good" commercials

Posted by gunsnewing:

hey where were those growth supplements when I was growing up! All we had were those "milk, it does the body good" commercials

and "wonder bread"!

Posted by Nalod:

Posted by gunsnewing:

hey where were those growth supplements when I was growing up! All we had were those "milk, it does the body good" commercials

and "wonder bread"!

Wheaties, man.

also in the news:
from CNNN.com
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Reports surfacing that fishmike was genetically bred for sex. With horsesized man parts and an appetite for blonds, red headss, brunettes and... well, all of them, he was introduced into a NJ suburb with the purpose of shifting the ethnic balance in the favor of tall goofy Irish guys.

Chinese GOVERNMENT (not people) is a crazy ideal!

I have read the same thing some time ago about Yao. Just that his parents were "hooked up" and encouraged. Nothing about growth suppliments. Would not suprise me.

Bunch of old men who think they are gods run that country. Crazy bunch of freaks! Then need to rid themselves of them, free Tibet, and leave Tiawan alone!

I ponder this question.

"If Yao weren't a pro basketball player, what exactly is it that you feel he could be doing?"

Posted by fishmike:

also in the news:
from CNNN.com
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Reports surfacing that fishmike was genetically bred for sex. With horsesized man parts and an appetite for blonds, red headss, brunettes and... well, all of them, he was introduced into a NJ suburb with the purpose of shifting the ethnic balance in the favor of tall goofy Irish guys.

That's a fact.

Here's a candid shot of Fishmike preparing to do his thing:

Posted by Marv:

Posted by Nalod:

Posted by gunsnewing:

hey where were those growth supplements when I was growing up! All we had were those "milk, it does the body good" commercials

and "wonder bread"!

Wheaties, man.

Ovaltine. And hanging from the monkey-bars for hours in an attempt to stretch your body.