In the late nineties, before low-grade video clips of obscure basketball leagues circulated the Internet with ease, I remember hearing about Yao Ming, a Chinese basketball prospect who was ...

Rockets center Yao Ming's broken left foot could be a "career-threatening" injury. Dr. Tom Clanton, the Houston Rockets' team physician, told the Houston Chronicle on Monday that Yao's injury "has the ...

After a news conference on a preseason trip to his hometown of Shanghai, Yao Ming asked me a question on our drive back to the hotel: Would I like to see where he grew up? “Absolutely,” I told him.

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 ...

I was never a fan of Yao Ming. I couldn’t be. Back in 2002, when the Houston Rockets were making the Chinese center the first overall pick, I was too worried about all the things that could go wrong, ...

SHANGHAI - 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 ...

BEIJING -- Yao Ming's expected retirement could diminish the NBA's once-burgeoning popularity in China, with many fans saying they would no longer watch games. Yao Ming is revered in China, where he ...

With the door to the NBA that swung open nine years ago closed to him, Yao Ming on Wednesday chose “a new life.” Yao announced his retirement in a ceremony and news conference in Shanghai, citing the ...

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 comfortable while still remaining themselves as Houston ...