NBA Finals Viewing Party in Beijing
Wallace gets love around the globe
By Alan Paul
I wrote about the NBA’s Game 3 viewing party in Beijing for my NBC blog.
That pretty much tells the tale but I need to give a special shout-out to my man Xu Kai, an NBA fanatic who chose Wallace as his English name — because of Rasheed Wallace.
“You know him?” he asked me, pulling out his wallet, to display a Sheed Trail Blazers card.
“Do I know him?” I exclaimed. “Dude, I work for SLAM.”
“I love SLAM! You run many articles on Rasheed.”
“Yes, and I wrote some of them myself,” I said.
His eyes grew wide and we exchanged a somewhat awkward high five.
“Listen,” I said, “anyone who names themselves after Sheed deserves to be on Slamonline. You’re in!”
So a big thumbs up from the SLAM nation to Wallace Xu of Qingdao, China, currently studying anthropology in Beijing.
13 Responses to “NBA Finals Viewing Party in Beijing”
Jun.13 at 10:39 am
iLL wiLL says:
Gangsta.
Jun.13 at 10:47 am
Matt Caputo says:
What do the call quarter pounders with cheese in china Alan?
Jun.13 at 10:52 am
Matt Caputo says:
ALAN - I once met a girl in a bar who had a Polish last name until junior high school when her father took the last name Lennon because he liked The Beatles so much.
Jun.13 at 11:03 am
setlasmon says:
i believe the chinese for quarter pounder is a complex series of squiggly characters
Jun.13 at 11:07 am
ciolkstar says:
Awesome. What’s up Wallace Xu?
Jun.13 at 11:16 am
TADOne says:
Rasheed Wallace=Global Icon. Eat it Bron!
Jun.13 at 1:35 pm
apaul says:
quarter pounders with cheese but they taste different.. have some kind of special spicy sauce on them.
Jun.13 at 5:44 pm
sheedfan says:
international family
Jun.13 at 9:52 pm
trouc says:
ithink sheed’s the whole reason i love ball so… rock on wallace!
Jun.14 at 1:32 am
Nashty says:
both teams play hard….
Jun.14 at 6:44 am
BETCATS says:
this thing was funny in a way that made me lol.
Jun.15 at 11:27 am
Alan Paul says:
Thanks BETCATS. I think.
Jun.17 at 4:54 am
chintao says:
Beijing QP’s are the jawn. Spicy mayo and cucumbers! By the way AP, where are you watching? Some friends and I are going to Rickshaw tomorrow for breakfast….