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The Houston Rockets will retire Yao Ming's No. 11 jersey during a halftime ceremony of a game against the Chicago Bulls on Feb. 3, the team announced Wednesday.

HOUSTON -- Houston center Yao Ming sat out the Rockets' 97-89 loss Sunday against Utah with an upper respiratory infection. The 7-foot-6 Yao, voted the starting center for the Western Conference ...

Widely regarded as the best Asian player in NBA history, China’s Yao Ming acknowledges the gulf but believes the gap between ...

When the Rockets and Heat square off on ABC on Sunday (1 p.m. ET), Houston's Yao Ming and Miami's Shaquille O'Neal will renew a budding rivalry. And while it's a certainty that other centers ...

Shaq vs. Yao Michele Norris talks with Wall Street Journal sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about the basketball showdown between two seven-footers, Shaquille O'Neal of the Los Angeles Lakers and Yao ...

Yao Ming, shown in a playoff game against Shaquille O'Neal and the Lakers in 2004, is expected to be part of the 2016 Basketball Hall of Fame class with Shaq. Bill Baptist/NBAE via Getty Images ...

Yao Ming (11) puts up a shot over Erick Dampier (25) (left) and Josh Howard (5) (right) during the second quarter of the Dallas Mavericks vs Houston Rockets basketball game at the Toyota Center ...

Yao Ming was seen on China's bench as an assistant coach for the women's national team. He's easily recognizable since he a 7-6 and a Hall of Fame basketball player.

MEMPHIS – Yao Ming is almost making me forget about Priest Lauderdale. In less than a week, the hottest import from China since duck sauce has gone from a universally mocked stumblebum (after… ...

That works out to a wine glass approximately 12.7 inches tall. Trying to find a glass for sale between 12 and 13 inches that looks like Yao's didn't turn up much in admittedly morning's long ...

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.