Everybody knows the old joke: How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
Practice, practice, practice.
But if your goal is to rack up big vote totals for the NBA All-Star Game, there's another answer: Be a Houston Rocket.
Call it the Yao Ming Effect, a phenomenon where the towering Rockets' center and his deserving All-Star credentials pull along a freight train filled with his, uh, less-than-glittering teammates.
When the final totals for the All-Star Game were released, Yao led all Western Conference centers, more than 700,000 votes ahead of Shaquille O'Neal. Yao's performance this season would certainly back up his selection for a seventh straight trip as a starter (a broken leg kept him out of the game in 2007). He is averaging 19.9 points, 9.6 rebounds, shooting 54.4 percent from the field and has led the Rockets to six wins in their last seven games while Tracy McGrady and Ron Artest have been on the sidelines.
I thought it was interesting. First time I, personally have heard someone else speak on it... I dont remember seeing this being posted.
