Chinese basketball legend Yao Ming has for the first time addressed ... by a winter sport competition in Shanghai – we felt like kids again,” he added, in response to a question from CNN.

NBA, or bust, kids. Yao Ming was so tall at age four, that while other kids his age rode public buses for free, he had to pay full fare. Damn, looks like you can't get away with anything in China.

They want to play in the NBA, just like Houston Rockets rookie Yao Ming. "Someday, there'll be no Americans left in the NBA," said 12-year-old Xing Tao, who joined his school's team two weeks ago ...

Lin's fan base on Sina Weibo, China's top micro-blogging site, has already hit the two million mark The two players bonded after meeting at an event for Yao's charity two years ago Shanghai CNN ...

Editor's Picks Yao Ming: A hall of fame photo gallery 9y ESPN ... this play ground," he said at the ceremony. "It's for all the kids and maybe in the future maybe our kids will play here in ...

Some of the other kids would tease him and call him "Chinese boy." But last summer, Yao Ming of China was the first player chosen in the National Basketball Association draft. There have been ...

"What Yao Ming is doing in China is awesome. He's really putting in the time to help his people, the kids, his country. Nobody else is doing anything like it." "Helping other people is the right ...

Eating lunch with Yao Ming is a spectator sport ... "My parents knew that kids loved McDonald's, so they used that as an incentive for me to get good grades in school. If I got good grades ...

Basketball is big in China: kids playing street hoops, fans wearing the jerseys of their favorite stars and huge audiences for streamed and televised games.

One of the stars who was supposed to play in that game was 7'6" Yao Ming, who had taken the NBA by storm. If the game had pushed through, Yao would have been the starting center of Fat Joe's ...

Yao Ming, a 7’6 center from China, was discussed almost like an urban legend before his arrival in 2002 (he first appeared on radars at the 2000 Summer Olympics), and when the Houston Rockets ...

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 ...