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Yao (translated by Colin) : When I first met him, I
could tell he was so nervous.
Colin : I was pretty, pretty scared.
Nelson Luis :
It really
was coming into focus for him that,
this was not just him being a mouthpiece for Yao
Ming but the fact that the world was gonna be
watching.
Yao : When I arrived in Houston, there were a lot of
people welcoming me.
I
was caught between the expectations of China and
those of Houston. The only thing I
could do was forge
ahead.
Lee Brown : Houston loves basketball. We've had two
championships in recent years and we saw Yao Ming
coming here as an answer to what we needed to take
us back to the championship.
Rudy : I'd like to, uh, introduce Yao Ming to
Houston.
Yao : Thanks, everybody for being here. I know I've
made everybody wait a long time but I hope that, um
everybody will think it was worth the wait.
Reporter 1: Uh, how much do you look forward to, uh,
facing Shaquille O'Neal?
Colin : He said... every, uh, problem has to be
faced.
Reporter 2: How interested are you to in learning
the lifestyle of the NBA and the part of the culture
that you've now joined?
Yao : I saw Steve Francis first. He was driving a
brand new Benz with the
music blaring. It wasn't surprising
to me because that's what I'd heard about the
American ballplayers.
Yao : Hi.
Steve Francis : How you doin'? Glad to see you. You
ready?
Yao : You have helped me.
Steve Francis : Huh? I got it for you. If it wasn't
for me, you wouldn't be here, right?
Yao : You make me come here.
Steve Francis : Exactly.
Yao : The first time I saw my teammates, I'm not sure
how they felt, but I was terribly nervous.
Cuttino Mobley : What's up, baby? How are you? How
you doin'? Good?
Yao : Pretty good.
Yao : I always watched them on TV. Now it feels like
I just walked into the television set.
Moochie Norris : See him? You gettin' a helmet?
Yao : What?
Moochie Norris : Gettin' a helmet?
Yao : No. I…It's… it's too low.
Moochie Norris : Too small? Ha ha ha!
Steve Francis : You're a small. You wear a small?
That's it. That's you. Yeah! Yeah! Ha ha. Yeah.
Yeah. That's what I'm talkin' about. See, I don't
know if they tell jokes over in Beijing, so I didn't
want to say nothin' at first.
Man : Thought it'd be disrespectful.
Steve Francis : Yeah. That's why I said I didn't want
to say nothin'.
Man : You in America now, bitch! That's all we do.
That's all we do.
Yao : What they say.
Man : It's comedy, man. You better hurry up and get
adjusted to this 'cause we gonna
light your ass up. |
