Why Yao Ming defines Houston sports In 2002, the Rockets plastered the city with billboards featuring Yao Ming's image and the team's slogan — "Be Part of Something Big" — in Mandarin Chinese.

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.

Yao Ming has quit as president of the Chinese Basketball Association, local media reported on Wednesday. The news quickly went viral in mainland China, becoming the No 1 trending topic on social ...

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.

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 ...

BEIJING — Former Houston Rockets star Yao Ming has stepped down as head of China’s struggling national basketball league. An eight-time NBA All-Star, Yao had been leading efforts to commercialize the ...

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 ...

BEIJING (AP) — Former Houston Rockets star Yao Ming has stepped down as head of China’s struggling national basketball league. An eight-time NBA All-Star, Yao had been leading efforts to ...

I read Golden Rage #1 (from Chrissy Williams, Lauren Knight, Sofie Dodgson, Shayne Hannah Cui, Becca Carey, and Joamette Gil) when it debuted in 2022 and the collection in February 2023. A scene ...

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. He also had his No. 11 jersey retired in 2017.

Geoff Chang remembers the moment that Yao Ming arrived. Not in Houston, per se, but as a legitimate force to be reckoned with in the NBA. The 7-foot-6 center had been drafted by the Rockets with ...

Former NBA great Yao Ming said he met with Peng Shuai and had a “pleasant chat” with the Chinese tennis star — whose disappearance amid allegations that an ex-government official sexually ...