SHANGHAI, China There's no Jane Fonda in China. No Bono, Julia Roberts, Richard Gere or Mel Gibson. And there's no tradition here of celebrities standing up to authority, or of celebrities trying to ...

Among the 40 players who added at least 0.05 championships per 82 games, the next-shortest career belongs to Willis Reed. Reed played 650 games -- precisely two more seasons' worth than Yao.

Lin averaged 21 points, five assists and 3.3 rebounds in 34 outings with Nanjing Monkey Kings while shooting 35.4 per cent from long range in the 2024-25 Chinese Basketball Association season. The ...

When Yao Ming was with the Rockets, he would frequent the cafe. "He comes in when he's in Houston," Ho explained, noting that the star's last visit was during Super Bowl LI in 2017.

Yao, who will turn 45 in September, has been out of the NBA for over a decade now. He remains one of the city's top athletes of this century, spanning 10 seasons from 2002 to 2011.