Yao Ming accomplished an incredible amount ... the aforementioned Manute Bol was paired with Muggsy Bogues — a tiny 5-foot-3 player from Maryland — creating a bizarre image before the arrival ...

Yao Ming is one of the most unique players to ... shortest player to ever play in the NBA, only behind the 5-3 Muggsy Bogues. Despite his size, the point guard spent 13 years in the league ...

Two of the NBA's most recognizable and retired big men found some time to hang out recently, and it turns out Yao Ming can even make a man as big as Shaquille O'Neal look small. The pair met up ...

In anticipation of Yao Ming's jersey retirement ceremony Friday night at Toyota Center, his former coach with the Rockets, Jeff Van Gundy, wrote a tribute in The Players' Tribune to the Hall-of ...

Yao Ming is tall. This is something that everyone knows about the former NBA star, and yet it continues to be wildly entertaining to see him being tall next to different people and things.

“Everyone called me “Yao” — they thought it was my first name,” Ming wrote in a first-person piece on The Players’ Tribune recently. “In China, our surnames come first and our given ...

2014 There is photo after photo of Yao Ming towering over people, all of them enjoyable, but perhaps maybe the best one is this one: Yao Ming and Muggsy Bogues. What's you favorite Yao Ming photo?

Love and Markkanen are big guys -- 6-foot-10 and 7-foot tall, respectively -- but they look almost tiny when standing next to 7-foot-6 Yao. Yao also towers over 7-foot-1 Shaquille O'Neal .

Yao Ming delivered a heart warming and humorous induction speech at the 2016 NBA Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony. Welcoming Yao Ming to the Hall were NBA legend Bill Russell, Bill Walton and ...

Shortly after Yao Ming joined the Houston Rockets in 2002, the hometown team in which he got his start retired his No. 15 jersey. This gesture from the Shanghai Sharks made Yao the first athlete ...

One week of training camp, two practices and an exhibition game were all Yao Ming and the Houston Rockets had to prepare for his debut. Calling it a tall order would be a massive understatement.