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Yao Ming (Chinese: 姚明; Pinyin: Yáo Míng) (born September 12 1980, in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese professional basketball player and is considered one of the best centers in the National Basketball Association (NBA) today. He is also among the tallest of players in the NBA standing at a height of 7'6". He is the only son of his father Yao Zhiyuan and Fang Fengdi. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) for five years, and now plays center for the Houston Rockets in the NBA. He was selected by Houston as the 1st overall pick of the 2002 NBA Draft and signed with them on October 21, 2002.

Yao was born to his 6’7” (2.01 meter) tall father Yao Zhiyuan, and his 6'2" (1.88 m) mother Fang Fengdi, who was the captain of the women’s national team that won the first Asian Championship in 1976. He was born with the weight of 11 pounds, twice the average size in China, and was 5’5” by age ten, and 6’6” (2 meters) by the time he was thirteen. He developed...

Created by dipity on Jan 24, 2008

Last updated: 03/05/10 at 04:11 AM

• The Year of the Yao
  Sep 15, 2004

  The Year of the Yao is a 2004 documentary film telling the first year of basketball player Yao Ming in the United States. The movie co-stars Colin Pine, Yao Ming's interpreter. ...,
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360216

• Yao Ming's Birthday
  Sep 11, 1980

  Yao Ming was born