A "what if" pretty much sums up Yao Ming's career. When healthy, he was a force — commanding attention in the paint, ...

During a sweltering summer in 2018, Yao Ming’s remarks at his inauguration resonated like thunder: "Chinese basketball needs the courage for deep reforms." His reform initiative aimed squarely at the ...

For years, heavy academic demands left Chinese students with little time for physical exercise. However, educational reforms ...

The NBA has already recruited Yao Ming and two other Chinese basketball players. Yao Ming joined the NBA through an internationally recognized procedure that, in turn, initiated a new stage of ...

None, though, have loomed larger than the former basketball star Yao Ming ... he was the tallest active player in the league. Ming led China to a 10th-placed finish in the basketball event ...

Since Yao Ming, NBA teams have willingly rolled the dice on young Chinese prospects in the NBA Draft, and so far, they have not panned out. Yi Jianlian and Zhou Qi were mostly unproductive overall NBA ...

Exploring NBA legend's orange jacket status Is Yao Ming in the Hall of Fame ... Yao Ming for cancelling his invitation to China Top 5 non-American players to make it to the Basketball Hall ...

Hall of Famer and 8x All Star, Yao Ming sat with fellow Hall of Famer, Shaquille ONeal to reminisce about his journey to the NBA from China. Yao discusses when his love for the game began and the ...

Editor's note: ESPN's David Aldridge sat down with Yao Ming ... and for me to see broadly the game of basketball. I am always with the top players in China, practicing with them, living with ...

BEIJING (AP) — Former NBA great Yao Ming said Monday he and others had a pleasant talk when they met last month with Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, whose disappearance after making a sexual ...