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The Legend of the Red Panda: NBA Halftime’s Can’t Miss Act (ENCORE)

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

An NBA halftime lasts just 15 minutes. It’s a time for players to leave the court, fans to run to the bathroom or grab another beer, or, a break, for all intents and purposes. But for Rong Niu - it’s her time to shine. Rong, better known to audiences as the Red Panda, has been astounding NBA halftime audiences around the country for thirty years, with her 7-and-a-half-foot-tall unicycle, a stack of white bowls, and not much else. Rong Niu, the Red Panda herself, joins the show today to tell us her story - and how she became an NBA legend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

ESPN Daily is presented by Supercuts, the smarter, easier way to get a haircut.

0:06.9

It's not just any haircut.

0:08.8

It's supercuts.

0:10.4

Okay, so before we're back tomorrow with fragrant, new, never-before-seen episodes, I wanted

0:18.5

to resurface one of my all-time favorites because it's about somebody you may have seen

0:24.9

while watching these NBA playoffs.

0:30.5

If you've stayed in your seat during half time, which by rule in the NBA lasts just about

0:37.3

15 minutes, right?

0:39.0

Players gotta leave the court, fans go to the bathroom, they grab a beer.

0:42.7

In theory, it is the least exciting part of the game, but for three decades, one woman

0:48.1

has made those 15 minutes a truly cat-miss event.

0:53.2

So as the playoffs roll on, we bring you the story of the most clutch performer in

0:58.7

all basketball, and it's a story that needs to be told by the Red Panda, wrong you, herself.

1:08.5

I'm Pablo Torre, it's Tuesday, May 31st.

1:13.3

This is ESPN Daily.

1:17.1

Could you explain for me what the Red Panda Act is?

1:20.9

The Red Panda Acrobat is an act described called unicycle bowl flipping.

1:30.9

It'll balance on a unicycle for one foot and then put the rice bowls on the other.

1:39.9

I want to introduce you to Wrong You, and you probably aren't familiar with your birth

1:44.9

name.

1:45.9

And if you're a fan of the NBA, you already know what it is that she does.

1:51.7

Rice bowls stock high up to my knee and flip into the air and catch with my hat.

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