8 Asians

What next?

• Subscribe to this feed
• Leave a comment

Other posts you may be interested in:

1. What Yao Ming Not Dunking Tells Us About Asian Culture
2. Can You Name Any Asians Playing Basketball Besides Yao Ming?
3. Yao Ming’s Left Foot – China Holds Breath
4. 8 Questions for Bang-yao Liu, the creator of DEADLINE (Post-It Animation piece)
5. Asian Basketball Players: With Yao out, will it be the Year of the Yi?

• Ernie

  
  Toy CEO: Mister Yao, we here at Global Plastics Unlimited have a delightful idea. We will make a toy that is a giant basketball, and it will transform into a robot. But in lieu of a robot head, we will sculpt your face and use that as your face instead.
  Yao Ming: Huh.
  Toy CEO: We will give you 100,000 dollars.
  Yao Ming: Huh.
  Toy CEO: We will give you 500,000 dollars if you agree that we make this toy completely out of lead.
  Yao Ming: Deal.
  

• Akrypti
  I'm interested to hear how they got Yao Ming on board with this idea. Thanks, Ernie, for your theory. The toy is absurd.
  
  And in a flip of things, Yao doesn't look Chinese because some hypersensitive politically conscious toy designer didn't make his eyes chinky enough. From the photo joz posted, Yao looks southern european.
• Ernie
  Akrypti -- actually, in that last photograph, Yao kinda looks like OJ Simpson.
• John
  Yao Ming as a Transformer.... now I've seen everything!
• Akrypti
  Ernie - ha ha .. now that you mention it, he does.