Former NBA star Yao Ming is very famous in China, and he's using his fame on behalf of conservation issues. Now a member of China's parliament, Yao is calling for a ban on the sale of ivory in China.

Yao Ming, the supersize Houston Rocket, on Monday married his girlfriend of eight years in a private Shanghai ceremony that local media described as a melding of Chinese and Western traditions.

None, though, have loomed larger than the former basketball star Yao Ming, who dwarfed fellow delegates ... for the annual ...

Yao Ming will be making his return to an NBA court for the first time in over a year tonight as the Houston Rockets take on the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers. Yao has been one of ...

Chinese basketball legend Yao Ming has for the first time addressed his encounter last month with tennis star Peng Shuai, describing her as in “pretty good condition.” Peng’s well-being has ...

Yao Ming is known to many as a giant, but he was much more than that. He was an ambassador of the NBA, a marketing executive’s money-maker, a coach’s dream and an amazing teammate.

Tonight, Yao Ming will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, to be permanently and officially considered one of the greats. From the late Moses Malone to the recently departed Dwight ...