Can Yao Ming become China’s first inductee to the NBA Hall of Fame?
Chinese superstar could join Shaquille O’Neal and Allen Iversen as inductees for basketball’s most respected awards later this year
Chinese superstar Yao Ming could be about to accompany Shaquille O’Neal and Allen Iverson in being inducted into basketball’s Hall of Fame.
O’Neal can reflect back to a time when he was just nine years old when his stepfather
began teaching him basketball with a plan to dominate like Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell and
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
He told me this day would happen and I never believed him
Young Shaquille didn’t even know who they were. Now he’s on the verge of joining them in the slam dunk of immortality.
“He told me this day would happen and I never believed him,” O’Neal said of Phillip Harrison, who raised Shaq along with his mother and died in 2013.
O’Neal is a finalist for induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, joining Allen Iverson to highlight the potential class.
