By Jacques Menasche

Friday, October 10, 2008

On the last day of the 2003 Asian Basketball Championships, the play at the Tianrun Ice Skating Arena in Harbin, about a days bus ride from the Siberian border, is what it's been like all week: dull. So many turnovers, so many fouls, a heavily favored Chinese team leading South Korea by so many pointsits almost, well, pointless. And then there is a moment. Late in the third quarter, Yao Ming blocks a shot, a giant swat that stops a brief South Korean rally. But it's not the block so much as ...

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