Kobe salutes Yao impact on China's NBA dreams
SHANGHAI - Yao Ming has made it possible for young Chinese basketball players to chase their NBA dreams and the country will produce more top quality players in the coming years, NBA all-star guard Kobe Bryant said on Tuesday.
Several reports in the media have said that injury-plagued Yao will officially announce his retirement from the game at a news conference on Wednesday.
The China Central Television (CCTV) would run a five-hour program on the player, including a live broadcast of the news conference at a hotel in Yao's hometown Shanghai, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Yao became aone of Asia's biggest sports figures when he was selected first overall by the Houston Rockets in the 2002 NBA draft.
"In terms of opening up doors for Chinese basketball players to come to the NBA, or for the youth in China to believe that it's possible to achieve the dream of being an NBA player, all that started from Yao," Los Angeles Lakers guard Bryant said.
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