For instance, 5’9” Nate Robinson blocked 7’6” Yao Ming in 2006 ... The two-time All-Star has a vertical jump of 45 inches.

The joke was supposed to be on Yao. It was 2003, a few months into Yao Ming’s rookie year in Houston ... 7-foot-6 center would jump at the sight of the rodent. He didn’t.

The Rockets retired Yao Ming's jersey on Friday night, and James Harden was really happy about it. As Rockets players lined up to congratulate Yao, James Harden just leapt up into the 7-foot-6 big ...

Charles Barkley is the latest to jump aboard the bandwagon of Yao Ming bashers, offering up this quote Thursday night on TNT's post-game show. "Yao Ming makes Shawn Bradley look like Bill Russell." ...

had played meaningful minutes in the NBA while measuring at least the same height as Yao in vertical units, and none of them had come at Ming’s can’t-get-more-expensive price — Bol was a ...

Yao Ming was one of the most influential big men ... Three teams picking in that ranve immediately jump out as potential Yao landing spots in the 1999 NBA Draft: the New York Knicks, the Rockets ...

151; -- When Yao Ming came onto the NBA ... This spot for Oreo aired in China only. Ming is good at playing the game, dunking it and hitting a jump shot with the cookie, but it's the kid who ...