Photo by GroovehouseBasketball season is almost here The Houston Rockets played a pre-season game last night at the Toyota Center. Reports are that a very tall ...

A "what if" pretty much sums up Yao Ming's career. When healthy, he was a force — commanding attention in the paint, anchoring the Houston Rockets on both ends, and showing flashes of dominance ...

That would be Olivier Rioux, a 7-foot-9 center who is currently the tallest player in college basketball. Rioux is a freshman from Canada, but he hasn't played in a game this year despite his ...

Not many centers have performed in roles like this, save, of course, for Shaquille O'Neal, who joined Ming on Monday as a member of the 2016 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class.

The 2016 class is remembered to this day for one iconic moment. Allen Iverson and Yao Ming were among the Hall’s inductees that year along with Shaquille O’Neal and WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes.

Yao Ming (11) shoots a free throw during the Houston Rockets vs Memphis Grizzlies basketball game at the Toyota Center Sunday, March 8, 2009, in Houston. ( Michael Paulsen / Chronicle ) ...

On this date in 2002, Yao Ming was selected 1st overall by the Houston Rockets in the NBA Draft, the 1st time a player who had played neither high school nor college basketball in the U.S. was the ...

Former NBA basketball player Yao Ming (C) arrives for the opening session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5, 2025.

Detroit Pistons guard Malik Beasley and his wife Montana Yao appear to have hit another rough patch in their relationship. Yao has filed for a legal separation from Beasley, according to a report ...