Yao Ming Twitter: YaoMing. (The Dynasty, The Great Wall) Position: Center Shoots: Right. (229cm, 140kg) Born: Draft: Houston Rockets, 1st round (1st pick, 1st overall), 2002 NBA Draft. NBA Debut: October 30, 2002. Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 2016 (Full List) Career Length: 8 years.

Yao Ming (born September 12, 1980, Shanghai, China) is a Chinese basketball player, who became an international star as a centre for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Yao was born to accomplished basketball-playing parents who each stood more than 6 feet (1.8 metres) tall.

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Former Houston Rockets star Yao Ming has stepped down as head of China's struggling national basketball league. The eight-time NBA All-Star had been leading efforts to commercialize the 20-team league and to bring it out from under the control of government bureaucrats and Communist Party officials.

Yao Ming. He was larger than life, and on opposite sides of the world, the man who stretched seven-and-a-half feet into space changed the face of basketball forever. Yao Ming joined the Houston Rockets in the summer of 2002, just a few months removed from having led his Shanghai Sharks to the Chinese Basketball Association championship.

Twenty years ago, Yao Ming began his rookie season for the Rockets. He became an eight-time NBA All-Star and had his No. 11 jersey retired.

Yao Ming is a Chinese basketball player who became an international star as a center for the Houston Rockets of the NBA.

Look back at some of Yao Ming's best NBA career highlights after being selected by the Houston Rockets with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2002 NBA Draft.#NBA...

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