— -- When the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announces this year's class next Monday in Houston during the NCAA Final Four, Yao Ming will be among the inductees according to ESPN's ...

Yao Ming may have an infectious smile off the court, but he was an expression of competitive ferociousness on it. Not every NBA player can play just 8 seasons and still be considered one of the finest ...

More than two decades before teams dreamt of landing a 7’5 Frenchman named Victor Wembanyama with the first overall pick in the NBA Draft, there was a different foreign giant that had the league ...

In 2016, legendary Houston Rockets center Yao Ming was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. In 2023, the 7-foot-5 big man was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame as a means of ...

This is such a great read, from AOL FanHouse's Sam Amick, that I'm tempted to just cut and paste the entire column. Copyright laws being what they are, however, I'll ...

There are only a few players who left their mark on coach Jeff Van Gundy in the NBA like his former Houston Rockets star players Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady. Van Gundy took genuine pleasure in coaching ...

Yao Ming landed in the U.S. in the summer of 2002, 7-feet, 6-inches worth of fancy footwork, armed with a soft shooting touch. He was the top pick of that draft, selected by the Houston Rockets, whose ...

Houston Rockets center Yao Ming is playing basketball for his native China this summer at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Yao discusses the earthquake that has devastated southwest China, the popularity ...

Basketball Hall of Famer Yao Ming sat down with ESPN-Tencent reporter Yuan Fang for an exclusive one-on-one --conducted in Chinese and translated to English --during which the Chinese basketball ...

The NBA's version of the Ming Dynasty is done. After helping pro basketball gain a foothold in the world's most populous market, Chinese star Yao Ming has retired. Yao made it official Wednesday, ...