Colin Pine, who served as Yao Ming's translator for the Chinese basketball star's first three years in the NBA, reflects on his friend's career and retirement.

Colin Pine says, if Yao Ming wants him back as his translator next season, he will stay. He added, no matter what, it has been a great experience. Related. Brewer report - Download 382k ...

Live-in translator for Yao Ming. All before his 30th birthday. No one has a better view of Yao Ming's rookie season than Colin Pine, top. "I adapt to new circumstances pretty well," he said.

The joke was supposed to be on Yao. It was 2003, a few months into Yao Ming’s rookie year in Houston. Yao opened the box and calmly looked across the room at Moochie Norris, Houston’s 6-1 ...

His translator seemed to be more of a buffer than anything else—a ten-second delay, so that Yao could summon the most judicious response, or serve as a supposedly faulty instrument when Yao ...

It seems unlikely that any American outside of a cloistered, sports-averse, PBS-watching film reviewer would have failed to notice the 2002 arrival of Yao Ming, the seven-foot-six gentle giant ...

Tonight, Yao Ming will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, to be permanently and officially considered one of the greats.From the late Moses Malone to the recently departed Dwight Howard ...