The Rockets likely will sign Yao Ming, the 7-5 center from China that was picked first... Yao likely to sign when Chinese team visits U.S. Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Houston Rockets center Yao Ming has purchased his financially troubled former club the Shanghai Sharks, Chinese media reported on Thursday. The seven-time NBA All Star's ...

No estimate has been released, however, of just how much Yao will spend on his former team, for which he started training as a young teenager. (See 100 Olympic athletes from the Beijing Games.) ...

Chinese basketball star Yao Ming will have to wait at least another year to play in the NBA after his club team denied him clearance to enter this summer's NBA draft. Yao, a 7-foot-6 center and ...

Yao has divided his time between Houston and China’s national team since joining the NBA in 2002, keeping him playing almost year-round. “As a member of the China National Team, Yao Ming must come ...

What a joy it was to have him on my team.” Yao was a member of eight NBA All-Star teams, as well as five All-NBA teams, and in 2009 helped the Rockets win their first playoff series since 1997.

According to Kevin Garnett, the entire Team USA squad placed a $1 million bounty on the head of Yao in the 2000 Olympic Games.The player who would've delivered a successful throwdown over the 7'6 ...

The team then took aim at Yao and the CBA of mismanagement, and Zhou for allegedly repeatedly discrediting the team. “Since 2017, Yao Ming has held the position of both chairman of the ...