Yang Yi talked about Yao Ming going to study in Dameng! A class cost 50,000 yuan, and teased that his money was spent in vain.

Basketball commentator Yang Yi shared an interesting story about Yao Ming on the show. Many years ago, NBA legendary center Olajuwon offered basketball special training courses, and the tuition fee was not cheap. At first, it was more than 50,000 US dollars per class, but later it increased to more than 80,000. This course is mainly for NBA athletes, after all, ordinary players really can't afford this price. Yao Ming, as the Rockets' center, also participated in Olajuwon's special training, just to improve his footwork skills in the inside.

Yao Ming has shown excellent inside skills in the NBA, but he is still eager to improve. Olajuwon is famous for his dreamy footsteps, and his signature butterfly steps and dreamy dance steps make his opponents unable to defend themselves. Yao Ming thought about learning this unique skill, hoping to further enhance his dominance under the basket. So he went to Olajuwon's training ground and started a special training journey.

During the special training, Olajuwon gave Yao Ming a careful guidance, teaching him how to use hooks on the move, how to turn around and cut to the bottom line, and how to complete a high-quality jump shot in front of defensive players. However, according to Yang Yi, Yao Ming came back after learning a week and said that he could have known the footwork skills that Olajuwon taught; but Olajuwon was quick and powerful, but he couldn't do it so quickly.

This also led Yang Yi to joke that Yao Ming spent the money a little unfairly, as if it was spent in vain.

In my opinion, Yang Yi joked that Yao Ming was spent in vain and could not be understood only from the literal way. Judging from the inside of the incident, Yao Ming’s technical foundation is solid. Before entering the NBA, he was already the top center in China and showed comprehensive skills in the NBA arena. Based on Yao Ming's foundation, the footsteps and movements taught by Olajuwon are indeed able to master both theoretical and action coherence. But on the basketball court, the movements are not enough, and speed and explosive power are equally important. Olajuwon has outstanding physical fitness. When he does those footworks, he is extremely fast and the defensive players can't react at all.

Yao Ming has good skills, but he has a difference in speed with Olajuwon, so the effect will be greatly reduced when doing the same moves; Yang Yi joked so much, which also captured this interesting comparison.

From external factors, as a senior basketball commentator, Yang Yi's jokes are more of a program effect. He knows that fans are interested in the stories behind such stars. Such jokes can increase the fun and topicality of the program. Moreover, this also indirectly reflects the uniqueness and power of Olajuwon's technology. It’s not that Yao Ming can’t learn it, but that Olajuwon has brought these technologies to the extreme, which is difficult for ordinary people to achieve.

Furthermore, Yao Ming's love for basketball and pursuit of excellence. Even though he failed to reach Olajuwon's level in the end, through learning, Yao Ming must have gained some in details and played a positive role in his career.

Therefore, Yang Yi's remarks that seem to make fun of Yao Ming and Qian Baihua actually contain recognition of the two legendary centers and brings fans a different topic of conversation, which makes everyone more impressed by that basketball past.