Chinese basketball prospect Yang Hansen has been urged to embrace comparisons with the legendary Yao Ming as he awaits his fate in this month’s NBA Draft. The towering 19-year-old centre last ...

Yao Ming, Carmelo Anthony, and the pickup game that never was Ming and Anthony go a long way back, and not only because of their taste for wine. Back in 2003, hip-hop legends Jay-Z and Fat Joe ...

Former Houston Rockets and Hall of Fame center Yao Ming pauses as he speaks during a halftime ceremony where his number 11 jersey was retired at Toyota Center on Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, in Houston.

Injury woes have haunted many of the NBA's most promising talents. In this video, we dive deep into the careers of five NBA stars—like Yao Ming, Greg Oden, and Isaiah Thomas—whose injuries ...

Kevin Garnett: So listen, though—we had a bounty out on Yao Ming. First cat to dunk on Yao? A million dollars. So everybody was trying—man, we all said, "First C, we all put our hand there ...

A roughly two-foot height differential did not stop Victor Wembanyama and Muggsy Bogues from linking up at NBA All-Star festivities this weekend. The NBA posted a wild viral video on Saturday of ...

On the flip side, the 21-year-old Wembanyama, who is listed at 7-foot-3 right now, isn’t nearly the tallest player in NBA history (Mark Eaton, Ralph Sampson, Tacko Fall, Yao Ming, and one-time ...

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.

Shaquille O’Neal once heaped praise on Yao Ming Shaq is widely regarded as the most dominant player and one of the greatest centers of all time. He treats the Big Men alliance with utmost respect and ...

It's the day before Thanksgiving, which is as good as any time to try to find the answer to some extremely dumb questions, such as: How large is Yao Ming's wine glass? Does this matter at all to ...