Widely regarded as the best Asian player in NBA history, China’s Yao Ming acknowledges the gulf but believes the gap between ...

HOUSTON – Yao Ming wears a variety of different hats since hanging up his size 18 shoes and retiring from the NBA in 2011. There's the stressed out and probably overzealous Yao, owner of the ...

China's NBA centre Yao Ming poses for a photo, June 15, 2004, at the launching ceremony for Shanghai Image Promotion Film where Yao, a Shanghai native, will play several roles including a cook, a ...

HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Rockets gave Yao Ming a warm welcome and his Shanghai Sharks a rude one. James Harden had 16 points and 10 assists, and the Rockets beat the Sharks 131-94 on Sunday ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Yao Ming attempted to sign Knicks point guard sensation Jeremy Lin to play for his Shanghai Sharks during the NBA lockout, but was unsuccessful, two league sources told The Post ...

Yao Ming, the supersize Houston Rocket, on Monday married his girlfriend of eight years in a private Shanghai ceremony that local media described as a melding of Chinese and Western traditions ...

Houston Rockets’ star center Yao Ming married longtime girlfriend – and basketball player for the Chinese national women’s team – Ye Li at a posh hotel in his hometown of Shanghai on ...

Yao Ming was the star in the NBA's first game in China, scoring 14 points and grabbing seven rebounds to lead the Houston Rockets past the Sacramento Kings, 88-86, in an exhibition game Thursday.

SHANGHAI -- It was a quiet day for California Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday, beginning with a meeting of a ranking local Communist Party official and capped with a river cruise featuring former NBA ...

August 6, 2007: On this day, in what the Chronicle described as a towering event, Houston Rocket Yao Ming married Ye Li, his girlfriend of eight years at a private Shanghai ceremony at the five ...