In case someone hasn't figured it out already, Yao Ming is very tall. In fact, as the NBA's tallest active player at the time of his retirement, all of his fellow active and retired basketball stars ...

The Rockets run underneath screens twice and back, and in the ensuing chaos, Brown leaves his man, Yao Ming, the 7-6 All-Star, to chase Shane Battier rolling away from the basket, and away from the ...

Yao Ming is remembered as one of the most well-known players in NBA history. Standing more than seven feet tall, he became a global basketball ambassador and the face of the Houston Rockets. His ...

For a few hours Saturday night, the RCA Dome seemed like someplace entirely different, someplace thousands of miles away. Red-and-yellow banners festooned with Chinese characters fluttered through the ...

Zhang Ziyu, from East China's Shandong Province, is aged 14 and 7-foot-4 inches tall. She has gained traction on social media for her natural aptitude for basketball. People on Twitter are drawing ...

The luxury-car world has a problem. Many of the sports stars with the money to buy such vehicles are just too big to comfortably fit in them. That means one of the most famous big men in professional ...

BEIJING, Jan 12 (Reuters Life!) - China's biggest sports star Yao Ming has dismissed as "ridiculous" an Internet report linking him to an American actress because she is nearly 28 inches (70 cm) ...

The teeming masses of fans -- with cameras, basketball jerseys and markers in hand -- have been waiting outside the Hyatt in Atlanta for the past two hours. When Yao Ming emerges from the hotel, the ...