I liked these quotes...

''I watched that game,'' Yao says, remembering O'Neal's ferocious airball of roundhouse. ''He couldn't control himself. It's not football. He should go to the WWF. He's too strong.''

''Charles Barkley,'' he says, beginning a string of perfectly constructed sentences of which, despite his limited English, he is occasionally capable. ''He always played hard. I liked his fouls. I watched his last game. Two points, one rebound, maybe one steal. But no fouls. I think he needed one more foul.''