Yao’s Got A New Gig

Yao also has an audition for 'Home Alone 4'

For the Lakerseither the Lakers or Magic, the off-season will be spent celebrating a title.  For every other NBA team, the off-season is a long, dull road of workouts and charity work to kill time until the next season starts.  Rockets’ center Yao Ming has found a way to pass some of his downtime.  He’s voicing a character in a Chinese language animated film.  He’s not playing a giant though, so I question this film’s validity. 

“The Magic Aster” features Yao as the main character’s father.  Also lending their voices to the project are no other NBA stars and a bunch of people I’ve never heard of.  So as far as the cast goes, it’s just like every movie Shaq has made.  Shazam!

Yao’s been in China since he broke his foot and his Rockets were eliminated by the Lakers.  That raises the question, how will Yao find a way to injure himself while acting?  The film is set to premiere on June 19th, so I guess he made it through, but was production shut down for a couple weeks while he nursed his strained voice box?  Maybe he hurt himself bad enough that producers were forced to piece his dialogue together from old interviews and commercials.  I guess we’ll find out if reviewers start questioning why his character keeps talking about T-Mobile and ball movement. 

I guess participating in an animated movie is close to the safest activity Yao could do in the off-season.  If I was a Rockets’ exec though, I’d make him hibernate in an oxygen tent until the start of training camp.  Or maybe even keep him in suspended animation until a big game came up on the schedule.  ‘Go thaw out Yao, the Lakers are in town.’

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