Yao Ming, right, sees the Rockets like Team China ... And this is what I want other people to remember, through me, to understand through me. I think I can do it through the way I play, and ...

"To see Yao Ming out there playing well is surreal. "When I first saw him play, people thought I was crazy ... spending sprees or any of the other gifts that have become commonplace in the ...

NBA star Yao Ming, architect Yoshio Taniguchi, and other dignitaries break ground for the Asia Society Texas Center on May 15, 2008. (Richard J. Carson/Asia Society) In the summer of 2002, when the ...

Even to this day, Yao is very selfless. It's not like, 'Me, me, me,'" Mobley added. "A lot of people need to take a page out of his book." The statistics support Ming's transformative impact.