Yao Ming Emerging As Superstar With Criticism Of Houston Rockets

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Houston Rockets Shoot 6-for-22 From Free Throw Line, Somehow Still Beat Pistons
Published 12/13/2007 at FanIQ Blog
Yao Ming called out his team for being soft this week. Maybe the Rockets just need to work on more fundamental aspects of basketball. It's called a FREE throw for a reason, but points were anything but a gift tonight from the charity stripe. ...

Creating a Tougher, Better Yao
Published 12/14/2007 by aloneconformist at Globetrotter
... I was forwarded by commenter, CYE, two different takes from the basketball blog HoopsVibe on Yao's recent assessment of the Rockets' lack of intestinal fortitude. They can basically be summed up as such: Oly Sandor proposes on his blog that Yao's stepping up vocally in a meaningful way is his coming-out party into legitimate superstardom, from second fiddle to franchise. The second is Jason Kelly's ...