![]() I say this with no exaggeration, but in my six years of being around Asia, I’ve seen a Yao Ming jersey once - and that was in the form of a tribute on the day Yao announced his retirement (I’ve seen a Kobe jersey, oh, 4,000 times). ![]() While American media has often attributed this growth to the emergence of Yao Ming in the early 2000s, that’s simply an uneducated, misinformed guess (which I’ve gone out of way to bring up here in an interview with Voice of America and here in a feature in TurboJet magazine). Of the four major sports leagues of North America, the NBA is, by light years, the most popular in Asia. This post has been republished, with permission, from. ![]()
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