The Great Person I Admire Most

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The Great Person I Admire Most
Yao Ming, one of the greatest basketball player in history, has recently been elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, alongside Shaquille O’Neal and Allen Iverson.
Born into a family of athletes, Yao had an early access to basketball at nine years old. Blessed with great talent-a huge strong body and marvelous basketball intelligence-he quickly became a rising star and attracted the attention of the whole world.
After winning a CBA title for his home-town club, Shanghai Sharks, he was selected first overall in the NBA draft by the Houston Rockets, which was a new start of his career and his real leap into the limelight.
Now we are all familiar with Yao’s awesome achievements in his basketball career. However, it’s hard for us to imagine what kinds of adversity he has gone through. He suffered severe stress from both his homeland and his local fans. He was faced with a totally different culture, whether in basketball or in society. As a focus of international media, he might fall apart at any moment. Fortunately, he has overcome all these to reach this high level today.
NBA officially commented,‘At the height of 2.26m, he almost single-handedly changed the situation that NBA was popular in a mere country, and promoted the significant globalization development of this magical sports.’But what Yao has done is much more than this. To the basketball world, he helped form the trend of attention to post players,and showed people that basketball could be played in such an elegant way. Moreover, to us Chinese, he enhanced our sense of national pride and confidence. His excellent performance and genuine patriotism, takes people’s ponder far beyond sports itself. Besides, he’s also devoted to charity and politics, playing a positive role in social construction.。