According to Francis, all was well until the Rockets appointed Jeff Van Gundy as head coach in 2003. "Stevie Franchise" ...

— -- 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 ...

Following the failed Houston Rockets' experiment of teaming Hakeem Olajuwon, Scottie Pippen and Charles Barkley up, the team went through a rough period trying to find its identity. Although they had ...

Hall of Fame NBA center Yao Ming spent nine years in the NBA. Although he was riddled by injuries for most of his career, his impact on the NBA may have been the greatest since the Bulls first drafted ...

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 ...

It was during his short promotional tour in 2017 that Kevin Durant came to recognize this gap, acknowledging that the country ...

Basketball fans and sports collectors have a chance to own a piece of history with the 2002 Honor Roll /25 Yao Ming Jay Williams #YM/JW-S BGS 9 MINT Rookie Auto RC HOF Sports Card. This exclusive ...

Chinese basketball legend Yao Ming has for the first time addressed his encounter last month with tennis star Peng Shuai, describing her as in “pretty good condition.” Peng’s well-being has become a ...

It can be easy -- too easy -- sitting on our couches or on our computers to just throw Yao Ming in the often-injured pile. But it’s really not that simple. We can forget just how good he was. This is ...

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 ...

The 2000 U.S. Olympic team wanted to make Yao Ming another Frederic Weis. Weis was on the wrong end of one of the most memorable dunks in Olympic history when Vince Carter leaped over the 7-foot-2 ...

Having appeared in a documentary and played himself on "The Simpsons," Houston Rockets star Yao Ming finally gets to voice a whole different character for an upcoming Chinese-language animated film.