W hen he was selected by the Houston Rockets as the first pick of the 2002 NBA Draft, Yao Ming was quite a unique physical specimen. A 7'6'', 310-pound giant from China with an incredibly soft ...

Yao Ming holds back Rockets teammate Steve Francis . Players who come to the NBA from foreign countries often have difficulty adjusting to the culture of the United States, but few have seemed so ...

On a snowy February evening in 2003, Yao Ming arrived at the Chinese Embassy in the District for a lavish reception in his honor roughly 24 hours before his Houston Rockets were to play the ...

Yao Ming spends time with Kinango, a two-week old orphaned elephant whose mother was poached for her ivory. (Kristian Schmidt for WildAid/WILDAID) By Michael Lee.

SINGAPORE: During his time in the National Basketball Association (NBA), it is fair to say that 2.29m-tall Yao Ming was a dominant force. The former Houston Rockets centre was an eight-time All ...

Morning freezes are expected to start as early as Sunday. BEIJING – Former Houston Rockets star Yao Ming has stepped down as head of China’s struggling national basketball league. An eight ...

Yao, who will turn 45 in September, has been out of the NBA for over a decade now. He remains one of the city's top athletes of this century , spanning 10 seasons from 2002 to 2011 .

Basketball Hall of Famer, business magnate, cultural ambassador – no Chinese athlete carries a richer legacy than Yao Ming, whose towering 2.29m frame stormed into the NBA 20 years ago.