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But I was wearing a colored shirt the players slowly into the stadium, and the world did not touch. What to wear Rhodes remember these players are the thin, looks more like a motley crew consisting of a random rather than professional team. But when he and fellow Nike began to lose interest when the last player into the arena along the channel. He walked a little slight shaking, like a small giraffe head, the child getting high in the line of sight, the last nike air max shoes station to be higher than other people regularly over 30 cm. His upper body looks very thin, but a pair of long, thick legs - it makes him seem short pants more than 20 cm. Rhodes soon know his name is Yao Ming: only sixteen years old, have 2 meters 18 high. "Yao Ming entered the arena, my jaw must fall," Rhodes recalls, "I've never seen or heard of him. I said: 'he was a big one, but his technique how to ? '"
Yao picked up a ball the other side of the arena began to shoot. His posture is not very formal - he was head drop the ball behind the ball when the shot is almost no rotation - but no one could cover the kind of shot. Yao gradually move outward from the basket, 3.65 meters, 4.57 meters, 5.5 meters. Most shots are directly got into the network at the end. "Finally, he went 3-point line, where it lost a few balls to vote," Rhodes recalled, "I turned to my colleagues standing on the nike air max 24-7 sidelines, said: 'Guys, we have just seen the future of basketball in China. '"
Of Rhodes, this is by no means a pointless exchange. The shooting of the children in Jing'an Stadium will soon become the center of attention in his life, and the cornerstone of Nike's Asia strategy. But first, Rhodes and colleagues need to be concerned about the reality: The future of Chinese basketball is wearing a pair of old Adidas shoes. Shooting training, Yao Ming, the Shanghai team coach to introduce the representatives of Nike, who looked at Yao Ming with the incredible, and then began to ask.
"Hey, this is a Nike party, why are you in a pair of Adidas?" A Nike manager asked.
"It was only my mother could find shoes big enough." Yao replied shyly. In fact, this pair of old shoes is an old friend of his mother, the Chinese National Team 2 m 03 center Zheng Haixia sent. "We can not find the consistent size of the other shoes." The next morning, Rhodes wrote to colleagues in Beaverton, e-mail, set a pair of basketball shoes on the 18th. A few days later, one filled with the NBA All-Star nike air max 2010 (Alonzo Mourning) The new Nike Air sneakers customized packages sent over. Jimmy Rhodes's colleagues Qin (Jimmy Qin) Meilong the shoes to the base in the quarters Yao personally handed to him. This is a series of relationships with the invisible in the first of many gifts.
