Word: dan
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...Dan-ni-er! Dan-ni-er!" the dealers shout, rushing toward McClintock and his 1.83-meter, green-eyed blonde wife, Alisha, holding up satchels of compact discs and videos and fake Cartier timepieces as high as their arms can stretch and barely reaching the big man's kidneys. "CD! DVD!" they...
...half-hour later Dan and Alisha and their new DVDs are compressed into a Volkswagen Santana taxi, bound for the condo that the Sharks have leased for them in a complex of rococo pink high-rises that look like the Leaning Tower of Pisa dipped in grenadine syrup. "You!" Dan commands, using Mandarin for "turn right." Then, after passing through the gates, he says, "Ting!" which means "halt." The driver lets them out in front of a fountain topped by a plaster nymph with breasts the size of cantaloupes...
...expected pure Third World," her husband says with a shrug, but Alisha needn't have troubled. In Shanghai there are a dozen Western-style supermarkets?and a Starbucks on nearly every corner, plus Tony Roma's and T.G.I. Friday's and Hard Rock Cafe. On this day, however, Dan walks to a sidewalk noodle stand on Diligent Study Road. This is his training meal: a 40? bowl of steaming pasta in broth, topped with slivers of beef. Chinese street food is more likely to repeat than the Los Angeles Lakers, but it suits the big man, as does the comfort...
...What about the pressures of being the heir to the departed Young Giant? "As far as I'm concerned, they were just looking for a good player to come in and help," Dan-ni-er replies. "Not as a replacement?those are shoes I can't fill. Yao's larger than life...
...Across town, while Dan-ni-er sleeps the pregame afternoon away, the indoor and outdoor courts of the Lu Wan District Children's Athletic School echo with the clamor of wannabe Yao Mings. Teenage boys leap and shout and launch fadeaway threes, and a dozen girls who can't be older than seven dribble two balls at a time?perhaps the Olympians of 2020 and beyond. OUR DREAM IS TO BECOME A SHANGHAI SHARK, reads a banner strung on the fence, but it is out of date; the success of the Young Giant has trumped domestic glory. Now, says...