— -- 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 ...
When he entered the NBA in 2002, there were understandably big expectations for Yao Ming. Standing 7-foot-6, most felt the Chinese center could easily dominate around the paint each time he got the ...
"Other players are going to want to do the things Yao Ming is doing" - When MJ predicted a surge of Asian talent in the NBA originally appeared on Basketball Network. Michael Jordan acknowledged the ...
Speaking on the latest episode of the All The Smoke podcast with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, Mobley reflected on his time with Yao in Houston and expressed that the 7-foot-6 center was more than ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Debates about on-court chemistry will have to wait as the league works its way through an international issue. By Marc Stein China’s state-run television canceled broadcasts of two preseason games ...
Yao, who retired in July, was nominated by a member of the Chinese media as a contributor to the game, and would've been eligible for induction as early as 2012. But Hall of Fame president and CEO ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...