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Thousands line up for Yao Ming's home-coming game
(newsphoto)
Updated: 2004-09-13 08:48
Thousands line up,
for about 40 hours, to buy tickets of an NBA game in Shanghai September
12, 2004. The two NBA China games, between Houston Rockets and the
Sacramento Kings, will be played on October 14 and 17, respectively in
Shanghai and Beijing. For the Shanghai game, only 3,000 tickets are
available. NBA center Yao Ming's home-coming games are now a hot
topic among sports fans in the two cities, and China as a whole.
[newsphoto]
Thousands in
Shanghai form a long line to buy tickets for the game between Yao Ming-led Rockets and the Sacramento Kings to
be played on October 14. [newsphoto]
A TV cameraman films participants during a
press conference near a poster of Houston Rockets' Yao Ming Thursday Sept.
9, 2004 in Shanghai. Yao Ming-led Rockets and the Sacramento Kings are
scheduled to play a game in Shanghai on October 14 and October 17 in
Beijing. [AP] |
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