It helped that “Ming” is easy to fit into a rhyme given how many words you can play off of it, but Yao became a somewhat unlikely staple of rap music that has persisted long after his career.

Metta Sandiford-Artest had his fair share of All-Star and Hall of Fame caliber teammates during his 18-year career. If it's up to him, though, Kobe Bryant and Yao Ming are at the top of the list ...

Yao Ming, president of the Chinese Basketball Association, attends the opening ceremony during the FIBA 3x3 Women’s Series Wuhan Stop 2023 at Wuhan Jiangxia Shengfan Sports Park May 6, 2023, in ...

Ming played all but two regular season games from 2002-03 to 2004-05, but injuries unfortunately took over the back half of his career. He missed 25 games in 2005-06, 34 games the following year ...

Yao's a great player, he's a great sport. Being dominant is being mean, throwing elbows, talking trash, cursing and all that attitude (laughs). Will he be one of the greatest in terms of playing ...

Basketball fans and sports collectors have a chance to own a piece of history with the 2002 Honor Roll /25 Yao Ming Jay Williams #YM/JW-S BGS 9 MINT Rookie Auto RC HOF Sports Card. This exclusive ...

Kevin Garnett: So listen, though—we had a bounty out on Yao Ming.First cat to dunk on Yao? A million dollars. So everybody was trying—man, we all said, "First C, we all put our hand there ...

France's Victor Wembanyama possesses a talent that defies comparison, retired great Yao Ming told Reuters, as the seven-foot four-inch (2.24-metre) rookie makes his highly anticipated National ...

Yao Ming, China's best known basketball star, at the Sydney Superdome on September 30, 2022. Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images/FILE. The result of that investigation has since ignited a full-blown rift ...

Chinese basketball icon Yao Ming spoke at a gala dinner in New York last week organized by the ...More National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.. Russell Flannery. Former NBA star Yao Ming ...

Yao Ming’s NBA journey began when the Houston Rockets selected him as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2002 NBA Draft. He was the highest draft pick ever to come directly from an international league.

Morning freezes are expected to start as early as Sunday. BEIJING – Former Houston Rockets star Yao Ming has stepped down as head of China’s struggling national basketball league. An eight ...