Shane Battier

Because Yan Ming was my teammate in Houston and they wanted a presence on the Rockets.

So I went there, I never heard of the shoe.

And I had like 50 foot billboards in like every city you never heard of in China.

And so I was very, very famous in China, much more famous in China than I was in America.

So whenever I go to a

a press conference in the city when I'm touring, there would be a bunch of reporters there, and they gave me the name Mr. President because my cadence and the way I talk and gesture was like Barack Obama.

I was going to say, your sleeves are rolled up to your elbows.

This is not a coincidence, it feels.

And so I would be in, you know, Qingdao, and, you know, the press would go, Mr. President, Mr. President, how do you find Qingdao?

I said, you know what?

It has the most beautiful women and the best beer.

And then I would go to— What a politician.

And then I'd go to Shanghai.

Mr. President!

Mr. President!

How do you find Shanghai?

It has the most beautiful women and the best beer, right?

But they knew I loved karaoke.

And so I went to this beer, actually the Qingtao Beer Festival in Qingtao, China, beautiful city on the water.

And they wanted me to sing karaoke.