When Yao Ming entered the NBA in 2002 as the No. 1 overall pick by the Houston Rockets, the league was already global; however, his arrival ignited a new era of international fandom, particularly in ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON – It was more Ming Disaster than Ming Dynasty last night. Proving for one night size doesn’t matter, the undersized tag-team of Kurt Thomas and Michael Doleac pushed and shoved the 7-5 Chinese ...

— -- HOUSTON -- Yao Ming, the first man to become the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft without playing in college, was honored Friday night as the? Houston Rockets?retired his No. 11 jersey.

The joke was supposed to be on Yao. It was 2003, a few months into Yao Ming’s rookie year in Houston. A Rockets staffer found a mouse in the locker room. He stuck it in a shoebox and left it in Yao’s ...

The two dozen junior high students playing basketball on the outdoor courts at the Nike Basketball Garden share a dream and a hero. They want to play in the NBA, just like Houston Rockets rookie Yao ...

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 ...

Former Houston Rockets center Yao Ming was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday night and he wasted no time cracking a joke on his fellow inductee Allen Iverson. Yao was the first ...