Once a player with the Houston Rockets in the NBA, now he has his non-profit Yao Foundation and was recently in Hong Kong to ...

At 30, most athletes are hitting their peak and focused on getting the most out of the final years of their prime. For Yao Ming, however, the reality was very different. Nicknamed "The Great Wall," he ...

Our colleagues in Houston are playing host to their biggest guest yet this week, as former Houston Rocket (and budding vigneron) Yao Ming makes his first visit to Asia Society Texas Center since ...

Kevin Garnett said that the United States men's basketball team had a "million dollar bet" for whoever could dunk on center Yao Ming at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The former ...

Below is the transcript of an interview with President of the Chinese Basketball Association Yao Ming. The interview will play out in CNBC’s latest episode of CNBC Meets: Defining Values on 20 July ...

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 ...