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Yao Ming
Chinese hoops player (born 1980)
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In this Asiatic name, interpretation family name is Yao.
Yao Ming | |
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Yao notes 2014 | |
In office February 23, 2017 – October 31, 2024 | |
Preceded by | Yu Zaiqing |
Succeeded by | Guo Zhenming |
In office March 2013 – March 2018 | |
Chairman | Yu Zhengsheng |
Born | (1980-09-12) Sept 12, 1980 (age 44) Shanghai, China |
Spouse | Ye Li (m. ) |
Children | 1 |
Occupation | Basketball sportsman / administrator |
Basketball career | |
Listed height | 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) |
Listed weight | 310 lb (141 kg) |
NBA draft | 2002: 1st pop in, 1st entire pick |
Selected by say publicly Houston Rockets | |
Playing career | 1997–2011 |
Position | Center |
Number | 11 |
1997–2002 | Shanghai Sharks |
2002–2011 | Houston Rockets |
Points | 9,247 (19.0 ppg) |
Rebounds | 4,494 (9.2 rpg) |
Blocks | 920 (1.9 bpg) |
Stats at NBA.com | |
Stats insensible Basketball Reference | |
Basketball Fascinate of Fame | |
FIBA Foyer of Fame | |
Yao Ming (Chinese: 姚明; calved September 12, 1980) quite good a Sinitic basketball board and plague professional contender. He played for rendering Shanghai Sharks of depiction Chinese Sport Association (CBA)
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Yao: A Life in Two Worlds
In 2002, Yao Ming became the NBA's first foreign #1 draft pick and a media sensation. Sports writer Ric Bucher was the only American reporter with unrestricted access to Yao's first year in the NBA. Now available in paperback, Yao: A Life in Two Worlds captures Yao's private story and traces his remarkable journey from Chinese success story to international icon. Whether winning over skeptical teammates, or treading lightly with ever-watchful Chinese officials, Yao reveals the many challenges he has faced with delicacy and humor. Spanning sports, politics, business, and popular culture, Yao's fascinating memoir reveals the humble, profoundly likeable young man behind the myth.
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Ye Li
Chinese basketball player (born 1981)
Not to be confused with Li Ye.
In this Chinese name, the family name is Ye.
Ye Li | |
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Born | (1981-11-20) November 20, 1981 (age 43) Shanghai, China |
Occupation | Basketball player |
Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) |
Spouse | Yao Ming (m. 2007) |
Children | 1 |
Ye Li (simplified Chinese: 叶莉; traditional Chinese: 葉莉; pinyin: Yè Lì; born November 20, 1981) is a Chinese professional basketball player who played for the Shanghai Octopus of the Women's Chinese Basketball Association and the China women's national basketball team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[1] She also won a gold medal as part of the Chinese women's basketball team at the 2003 Summer Universiade.
Born in Shanghai, Ye Li attended the University of Houston,[2] where she met Chinese basketball player Yao Ming at the age of seventeen in 1998.[3] They married on August 6, 2007.[4] Ye gave birth to their daughter Yao Qinlei (whose English name is Amy) in Houston, Texas on May 21, 2010.[5]