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September 12, 1980 (age 42) Shanghai China
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Yao Ming, (born September 12, 1980, Shanghai, China), 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. From an early age Yao towered over his classmates. By the time he was 12 years old, he was attending a local sports academy and practicing basketball several hours a day. In 1997 he joined the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). By the time he led the Chinese team to a respectable 10th-place finish at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Yao had become a national icon.
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The 7-foot 6-inch (2.29-metre) Yao was drafted by the Houston Rockets with the first overall pick in the 2002 NBA draft. In the 2002–03 season he was voted by fans to start for the Western Conference in the All-Star Game and was a unanimous selection to the league’s All-Rookie team. Although the Rockets narrowly missed making the NBA play-offs in 2003, Yao helped lead the team to a 43–39 record—an impressive turnaround from the Rockets’ 28–54 record just one season earlier. With his soft shooting touch and deft passing ability, Yao earned all-star honours in each of the following six seasons and helped the Rockets to play-off appearances in five of those years (2004, 2005, and 2007–09). However, he suffered a series of broken bones in his legs and feet over the course of his first seven years with the Rockets, and his 2008–09 season ended during the play-offs as the result of a broken foot, which then failed to heal properly. He underwent surgery during the following off-season, but the damage was so severe that he missed the entire 2009–10 NBA season. Yao returned for five games at the start of the 2010–11 season before suffering a stress fracture in his ankle, and he was sidelined for the remainder of the season. The injury-plagued Yao retired from professional basketball in July 2011. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. The following year he became the president of the CBA, having served as president and owner of the CBA’s Shanghai Sharks franchise since 2009.
Yao’s impact on basketball culture extended far past his on-court accomplishments. He drew large crowds wherever the Rockets played, and Houston games were broadcast to huge audiences in China and other Asian countries. A media favourite, Yao was a pitchman for numerous companies and was the focus of the NBA’s efforts to popularize the league around the globe.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.
CHINESE BASKETBALL PLAYERS | Facts and Details
TALL PEOPLE IN CHINA
American college coach Dale Brown asserted that there are more than 100 seven-foot basketball players under the age 24 in China's sports schools and local basketball clubs. "Something is not right when a nation of midgets is producing more 7-footers than any other country in the world," Brown said and then went on to suggest that something sinister may be at work, such as athletes being given human growth hormone or fetuses undergoing genetic engineering:
Many Chinese believe they don’t have the innate skill of African-American and European players and thus have to make up for their lack of innate ability with height and shooting skill. For a while the Chinese experimented with a 4-point-shot as a way of improving their shot making.
The average height of the Chinese male is 5 foot 6 inches. But Chinese are getting taller. The average Chinese child in six centimeters, or around two inches, taller and three kilograms or seven pounds heavier than 30 years ago according to the Chinese Health Ministry. The increases have largely been attributed to improved health and nutrition.
There are now many Chinese over six feet tall and some over seven feet. Tallness in China seems to be a good example of the saying if you are one in a million in China there are a thousand others just like you. For a while a 2.36-meter-tall Chinese man named Bao Xishun was listed by Guinness Book of Records as the world’s tallest man.
When foreigners visit Beijing they are often surprised by how large the people are there. One sports agent told Sports Illustrated, "If foreigners think the Chinese people aren't big, it's because for years they've seen only people from Guangzhou or Hong Kong. It’s true that south of the Yangtze River most people are short. There they say to big guys — they call them 'long guys' — 'You’re wasting clothes!" But people north of the Yangtze can be very big."
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Tall Basketball Chinese Players in the U.S.
Four Chinese players have played in the NBA as of the mid 2000s. Three have been very tall centers: 7-foot-6 Yao Ming, 7-foot-1 Wang Zhizhi and 7-foot Mengke Bateer. Sometimes referred to as the "Walking Great Wall," the three men played together on the Chinese national team at the 2000 Olympics. Yi Jianlian, the forth player, is 7-foot a power forward.
The tallest player in professional basketball history is Sun Ming Ming, a 2.36 meter (7-foot-9-inch) tall, 175 kilograms Chinese player with hands so enormous that he can catch a ball with one hand and make a jump shot with the other. His extraordinary height is due to a pituitary gland condition which also affects his health, and may keep him from playing in the NBA and being the tallest player in NBA history. It may also kill him.
Sun signed with the Maryland Nighthawks of the ABA in 2007. Raised in Bayan China, he began playing basketball when he was 15 and six-foot-10-inches. He arrived in the United States in 2004 with ambitions to play in the NBA and was diagnosed there with a pituitary-gland disorder called acromegaly. In 2005 he had had surgery to remove a benign tumor in the gland. It is not clear what the results will be. NBA teams are reluctant to take a risk on him.
Sun is three inches taller than Yao Ming. He once said “I hope to make it big.” Scouts doubt of he will play in the NBA. One told Sports Illustrated. “He’s horribly slow. He can’t move laterally. He has bad hands. Guts shoot lay ups over him because he can't get his arms up fast enough.” On his debut he scored eight points and had three blocked shots.
Wang Zhizhi
Wang Zhizhi, a 7-foot-one-inch center from Beijing, was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks in the second round in 1999 to become the first Chinese player to play in the NBA. The son of two former basketball players, he can dunk from all directions, make three point shots and does a sky hook.
Wang played for the Bayi Rockets, the team sponsored by the People’s Liberation Army, and was officially a regimental commander in the PLA when he played. Wang helped lead his team to six CBA championships. Initially generals in the PLA refused to let Wang join the NBA.
Wang and Yao Ming reportedly do not get along. Wang angered the Chinese basketball federation when he failed to return to China to prepare for the 2002 world championships. He was not allowed to play in the 2004 Olympics. Chinese basketball fans hope that he will back at the 2008 Olympics.
Wang Zhizhi refused to honor his commitment to the national team. He failed to show up at tournaments in the summer and fall of 2002 and was kicked off the team. After five mediocre NBA seasons his U.S. visa was revoked. In 2006, with the Olympics just two years away, he publically apologized to all of China and was reinstated on the national team.
Wang Zhizhi in the NBA
Dallas spent two years trying to get permission from Bayi, the PLA, CBA headquarters and Shanghai municipal sports commission to sign Wang. Mavericks owner Ross Perot Jr., son of H. Ross Perot, personally flew to Beijing to cajole the Beijing team to give him up. Finally in 2001 a deal was worked out that gave both the Mavericks and China a piece of him.
After scoring six points in his eight minute debut with the Mavericks, Wang said he was happy: "It means that I can score on the N.B.A. floor." Later he was honored with "Wang Zhishi Day" in San Francisco and appeared on a highly sought after trading card. In the middle of the season with the Mavericks, he was summoned to China to play in Chinese National Games.
After his second season in the NBA, Wang refused to go home and became involved in a complicated lawsuit when he said he wanted to return to China. He was dropped by the Mavericks and picked up by the Los Angeles Clippers, for $2 million a year. Afterwards Clippers games are banned in China. Wang then left the NBA and made a come back in the Chinese leagues. As of July 2007, one Italian team and three NBA teams were courting him.
Yi Jianlian
Yi Jianlian, a star power forward with Guangdong Tigers, was picked number 6 in the first round of the NBA draft in 2007 after impressing coaches during training sessions in Los Angeles. He was chosen by the Milwaukee Buck but didn’t sign with them until several months after the draft. When he did he signed a standard rookie scale contract.
The deal was made with Yi, his family, his agent, his Chinese team and Chinese sports officials. It was not clear why a deal was so long in the making. There was some talk that he wanted to be traded to a team in a city with a large Asian population. Some in China said that Milwaukee was not a good team for his development as a player for the national team in the 2008 Olympics.
Yi has soft hands and an athletic body. He has a sweet shot form the wing and has the ability to run the court. He played with the national team in the 2004 Olympics and the 2006 World Championships. Most regard his skills and his English as better than Yao’s before he played in the NBA.
Yi Jianlian Early Life
Dubbed “Little Yao Ming,” Yi is 2.3 meters tall and is from Shenzhen. Both his parents were team handball players. His 5'8" mother played for the Chinese national team. His father is 6'5". Both are now postal workers. Yi started playing basketball in the first grade. He was singled out because he was tall at an early age. He told Sports Illustrated, “I wasn’t very good. But I loved it and I didn’t play other sports. After grade school the government put me in a sports school.”
At his sports school Yi said, “I lived in a dorm with four or five guys and one bathroom. We had classwork from 8 to 11:30. I didn’t like classes. Basketball training was a lot of running and team-oriented drills. It was tough. The first time I did the 400-meter run I couldn’t finish. I was so upset I wanted to quit. If someone doesn’t perform there, they are asked to leave.”
Yi was almost seven feet tall when he was16 and touted at that time as a future NBA star. At 18 he showed a range of skills but was still quite thin and needed to bulk up if he wanted to play in the NBA. He averaged 24.9 points for Guangdong in the 2006-2007 season and lead Guangdong to three tittles in four years. There were questions about his age in 2007. Some said he was 19; others said he was 22.
In China Yi is mobbed by fans. Sometimes he says people wait outside his hotel all day to see him and chase him down the street, seeking his autograph. He likes hip-hop, Hollywood films and wants to buy a Range Rover.
Yi Jianlian in the NBA
Yi said he grew up watching the NBA on television and loved the atmosphere when he got to see a game in person when the Chinese national team visited the United States in 2002.
Yi Jianlain showed up for practice with the Bucks in mid October. His coaches said there were no guarantees of playing time and their primary goal, they said, was to develop him into a first rate player. Yi got off to slow start and admitted that playing in the NBA was tough and the pressure was getting to him. In one early game he fouled out in 16 minutes, managing only three points, two steals, a blocked shot and a turnover.
In November 2007, Yi and Yao Ming faced each other for the first time. An estimated 200 million Chinese tuned in to watch the game live on television in China even though it was broadcast in the wee hours of the morning. In comparison the Superbowl in the United States draws an average audience of 93 million. Yao proved to be the better man. He had 28 points, 10 rebounds and three assists to Yi’s 19 points and nine rebounds in 114-88 victory by the Rockets over the Bucks.
Yao and Yi play on the national team together. Yao said the first time he saw Yi play he knew that Yi would be an impact player in the NBA. After their first meeting he said, Yi’s “talent is unbelievable. You ask me how good he can be? I can’t say that. But I’ll think he’ll be better than me.”
More than 200 million Chinese tuned in to watch the second showdown between Yi Jianlian and Yao Ming, in Milwaukee . What they saw was not impressive, Yi went 1 for 10 from the field, Yao had only 12 points and did poorly on defense but he did have a team-high 12 rebounds. The Rockets beat the Bucks 91-83.
Yi Jianlian was traded to the New Jersey Nets before the 2008 season. He played for the Washington Wizards in 2011. Yi, the 2.02-metre forward, is China's great NBA hope after superstar Yao announced his retirement in July 2011
Other Top Chinese Basketball Players
Menk Bateer plays for the Denver Nuggets. He was picked to be a basketball played at the age of eight, when the mayor of his town visited his school and mistook him for the teacher. Liu Wei plays for Sacramento. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens he made the newspapers by yelling English cuss words at his own coach. Another Guangdong Tiger player — point guard Chen Jianghua — is regarded as good enough to play n the NBA.
A Chinese guard named Ma Jian played at the University of Utah for two years. In 1995, a was the last player cut from the Los Angeles Clippers. When he entered the sport there were no Asians in the NBA. He told the New Yorker, “The first time I stepped onto the team...I saw the blacks sitting on one side and the whites on the other. I looked at myself’should I go on the brothers’ side or the whites’ side?”
Sun Yue, a 2.06-meter-tall point guard, has a multi-year contract with the Lakers. He averaged 6.8 points, 1.7 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.33 steals in six games with China in the Olympics in 2008. Sun played for the Beijing Aoshen Olympians of the American Basketball Association for three seasons and was a first team All-ABA selection each of the last two years. He was the Lakers’ second round draft pick in 2007.
Former NBA All-Star Steve Francis played with the Beijing Ducks. At one point there were reports he had left the team while teams said the reports were untrue.
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The hard life of giant Chinese basketball player Yao Ming
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Two truths are very well known to everyone: the Chinese are small in stature, and the basketball players are very tall, but this guy has destroyed all stereotypes. Chinese basketball player Yao Ming showed everyone that the Chinese are capable of not only flooding the whole world with goods, but in general everything they want. Yao Ming was born in Shanghai, his height is 2. 29m, and this suggests that other basketball players with him look like children. This is Yao Ming's trouble, next to him everyone looks like babies, it is difficult for him to find not only suitable clothes, but also furniture, friends (so that they do not look ridiculous next to him), a girl and other necessary little things in life.
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is him very difficult to blend in with the crowd
Finding the right furniture is even more difficult
To kiss a girl, he would have to squat down
It is difficult to hear what you say from the Earth
Its growth is no less impressive than with its game in basketball
Conventional photo of the nuclear power plant higher than the belt
Sometimes he is sad that he is not like everyone else, but this is really a natural gift
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Yao Ming - photo, biography, personal life, news, basketball 2022
Chinese basketball player Yao Ming is recognized as one of the most famous Asian athletes of the early 21st century. Thanks to performances in the national championship and games in the leading club of the NBA, the Houston Rockets, the center American team, repeatedly participated in the demonstration All-Star Games.
In 2016, along with Shaquille O'Neal and Allen Iverson, he was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame in Springfield, and also became the current chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association. With a height of 229 cm and a weight of 141 kg, the athlete has always attracted the attention of journalists who have made the laughing face of Yao Ming one of the most popular memes on social networks.
Childhood and youth
Yao Ming was born on September 12, 1980 in Shanghai. His biography was predetermined because Yao Zhiyuan and Fang Fengdy's parents were professional basketball players.
When the boy, twice the size of other children, was 9 years old, he began to train in the children's section and soon got into the junior team of the Chinese Shanghai Sharks club.
Doctors who regularly examined young players thought that in the future Yao would reach a height of 221 cm, and they were not mistaken in predicting the athlete a brilliant career in basketball. In pursuit of this, Ming trained 10 hours a day as a child, and by the age of 17, he was in shape to become a member of the senior team of the national association.
Basketball
In his debut season, Yao showed good results, but a broken leg knocked the young athlete out of the rut for a while, and the Shanghai Sharks lost the championship to the famous Bai Rockets club. In 2002, Ming's team achieved victory and became the CBA champion for the first time in history. Yao, with an average of 38.9 points and 20.2 rebounds per game, became one of the best basketball players of the season and the only lifetime owner of the number 15 shirt. disagreements with the leadership of the association of China. For negotiations, a special "Yao team" was created, which included representatives of the Asian and American sides. As a result, in 2002, Min entered the draft, held on June 26 at Madison Square Garden.
In the 1st round, the young athlete was selected by the Houston Rockets of the Western Conference Southwest division, and it became a sensation in the western basketball world, as Min became the first foreigner to go to the NBA team at number one.
After missing pre-season training due to the China National Team at the FIBA World Championship, Yao made his first appearance on the court against the Indiana Pacers. The day before, sports commentators predicted the failure of the legionnaire, who ended the meeting without a single point.
Yao Ming's best games
The pressure on the athlete intensified in the match with the Miami Heat, when, following the Eastern tradition, 8,000 fortune cookies were handed out to spectators in the stands. Later in an interview, Yao said that he did not understand American humor, since such a stereotype never existed in China.
In addition, in January 2003, Shaquille O'Neal allowed himself to make derogatory racist remarks about the Chinese basketball player, and then admitted that he regretted the way he treated Yao at the beginning of his career. In place of the NBA star was the success of Min, who defeated the American in the vote on the eve of the 2003 All-Star Game and was recognized as the best rookie of the season and the winner of the Laureus World Award.
After that, new Houston Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy put Yao at the center of the attack, and the team advanced to the playoff series for the first time in a long time. And although the club failed to reach the final, Min was again among the stars of the Western Conference, who won against rivals in an exhibition match in 2004.
By the 4th season, Yao had 244 matches, after which there was a long break due to deteriorating health and surgery on the big toe of his left foot. Nevertheless, the basketball player, who became the winner of the vote in the West, was again invited to participate in an indicative star weekend.
Injuries continued to haunt the athlete and deprived him of playing practice in the NBA for a long time. In the spring of 2006, Yao was recovering from a fracture during a game against the Utah Jazz for six months, and then was seriously injured in another game while trying to block an opponent.
In 2008, the athlete required a surgical intervention, as a result of which metal screws were screwed into the foot to strengthen the bone tissue. As a result, the Houston Rockets deprived Min of his salary and in 2011 granted him the status of a free agent. At the same time, the basketball player announced his retirement from professional sports, and social networks exploded with comments about this decision.
Reacting to Yao's resignation, NBA Commissioner David Stern said the size 48 player with incredible reach was one of the NBA's key figures and a bridge between Chinese and American fans.
In 2012, the media, which highly appreciated the achievements of the athlete, nominated Ming for a place in the Naismith Hall of Fame, but modesty did not allow him to become part of professional history too early. Only after 4 years, the tallest player of the Houston Rockets, along with Shaquille O'Neal and Allen Iverson, received the honorary title and a well-deserved award.
Personal life
At the age of 17, Yao met Chinese basketball player Ye Li, who accepted the young man's friendship after a memento from the 2000 Summer Olympics. Soon, the lovers appeared together at the closing ceremony of the main sporting event in Athens, and in 2007, Ye Li became the wife of the tallest NBA athlete.
3 years after the wedding, which was attended only by family members, the couple had a daughter, whose American name was recorded as Amy.
Yao Ming and his wife Ye Li / CultureMap Houston
Some details and interesting facts about his personal life, the athlete reported in his autobiographical book titled "Yao: Living in Two Worlds" and the documentary directed by Adam Del Deo "The Year of Yao".
He underwent surgery during the following off-season, but the damage was so severe that he missed the entire 2009–10 NBA season. Yao returned for five games at the start of the 2010–11 season before suffering a stress fracture in his ankle, and he was sidelined for the remainder of the season. The injury-plagued Yao retired from professional basketball in July 2011. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. The following year he became the president of the CBA, having served as president and owner of the CBA’s Shanghai Sharks franchise since 2009.
The increases have largely been attributed to improved health and nutrition.
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It may also kill him.
The son of two former basketball players, he can dunk from all directions, make three point shots and does a sky hook.
Afterwards Clippers games are banned in China. Wang then left the NBA and made a come back in the Chinese leagues. As of July 2007, one Italian team and three NBA teams were courting him.
He has a sweet shot form the wing and has the ability to run the court. He played with the national team in the 2004 Olympics and the 2006 World Championships. Most regard his skills and his English as better than Yao’s before he played in the NBA.
The first time I did the 400-meter run I couldn’t finish. I was so upset I wanted to quit. If someone doesn’t perform there, they are asked to leave.”
After their first meeting he said, Yi’s “talent is unbelievable. You ask me how good he can be? I can’t say that. But I’ll think he’ll be better than me.”
Another Guangdong Tiger player — point guard Chen Jianghua — is regarded as good enough to play n the NBA.
At one point there were reports he had left the team while teams said the reports were untrue.
29m, and this suggests that other basketball players with him look like children. This is Yao Ming's trouble, next to him everyone looks like babies, it is difficult for him to find not only suitable clothes, but also furniture, friends (so that they do not look ridiculous next to him), a girl and other necessary little things in life. 
It is necessary to take pictures from afar so that it climbed into the frame 
Thanks to performances in the national championship and games in the leading club of the NBA, the Houston Rockets, the center American team, repeatedly participated in the demonstration All-Star Games. 
As a result, in 2002, Min entered the draft, held on June 26 at Madison Square Garden. 
Later in an interview, Yao said that he did not understand American humor, since such a stereotype never existed in China. 
Nevertheless, the basketball player, who became the winner of the vote in the West, was again invited to participate in an indicative star weekend. 
