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 ...

"He had been taught not to embarrass his opponents" - Why Yao didn't dunk more often during his prime originally appeared on Basketball Network. When he entered the NBA in 2002, there were ...

Yao Ming reflected on his matchups against Shaquille O’Neal and admitted he was lucky not to face Shaq in his prime. Yao said, “I’m just caught in lucky timing that when he is just, I don’t know if he ...

The seven-foot, six-inch (2.3-metre) Yao became the first international player to be made top pick in the NBA Draft when the Houston Rockets called his name in 2002. He measured up to the high ...