When he was selected by the Houston Rockets as the first pick of the 2002 NBA Draft, Yao Ming was quite a unique physical specimen. A 7'6'', 310-pound giant from China with an incredibly soft ...

As Shaquille O'Neal unanimously claimed the most dominant center title in the NBA during the early 2000s, a new giant was ...

Fifteen years have passed since Yao Ming, the towering figure of the NBA, retired from the league, yet one of his former teammates continues to make waves in professional basketball. This article ...

When Yao Ming emerges from the hotel ... to finish his playing career and was selected in the fifth round of the 1982 NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets. His career aspirations, however, were ...

Editor's note: ESPN's David Aldridge sat down with Yao Ming, the Houston Rockets' No. 1 overall draft pick ... how aware were you about the NBA? Initially, when I knew of the NBA, when I watched ...

Hall of Famer and 8x All Star, Yao Ming ... NBA from China. Yao discusses when his love for the game began and the pressure he felt entering the league. He was drafted to the Houston Rockets in ...

None, though, have loomed larger than the former basketball star Yao Ming ... Ming began his basketball career with the Shanghai Sharks before entering the NBA draft in 1999.

BEIJING (AP) — Former NBA great Yao Ming said Monday he and others had a ... Yao, who played for the Houston Rockets from 2002-11 and is now president of the Chinese Basketball Association ...

Former NBA guard Jeremy Lin took to Instagram on Thursday to post a photo of himself with Basketball Hall of Fame big man Yao Ming. The two ... played in the NBA from 2002-11, making eight All ...