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All-Star center Yao Ming is out for the season with a stress fracture in his left foot, a stunning blow to the surging Houston Rockets.

Still, it hasn't been a working formula in Houston combined with one of the two best centers in the league, Yao Ming.

He goes a little bit like (countryman) Yao Ming; one step at a time. You never see him expecting so much from himself.

It's easy to forget, now that he's been so absent the last two years, that Yao Ming was once an iron man.

As the NBA draft approached, the grim truth about Yao Ming's(notes) broken left foot hung like an anvil over the Houston Rockets.

PLEASE allow me to set up the conflict for the next Mission: Impossible film, starring Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets.

I think you've got to force Yao Ming out on the perimeter defensively.

We would love to see Yao Ming come back and play and stuff like that, but he's got to get his feet healthy. That's a tough thing.

"Yao Ming is one of the greatest players in the world. And with his injury, it is going to make things difficult, " Donewald said.

On his way out of the game, Yao Ming thrust his fist through the air, and soon made that long, wobbly walk to the Chinese bench.

Yao Ming of the Rockets pillar has been blocked outside, see Garnett and powerful one-handed snatching up the ball to the plate outside.

Yao Ming's undeniable contributions as an ambassador for international basketball give him a unique edge to his profile.

He got up at 3 a. m. to be bused to the square but it was worth it to catch a glimpse of Yao Ming, he said.

e. g. Some people may know little about basketball , but when it comes to the Litte Giant Yao Ming , they must be familiar with him.

When Yao heard that the " Yao Ming brand sanitary towel " was on China's market , he didn't know whether to laugh or to cry .

In rebounds , and Yao is almost the same as Garnett, Garnett's defense may be better than Yao Ming, Yao Ming can cover some of the shooting.

Yao Ming once killed a man in Orlando just to see him die. The man's name was Carlos Arroyo.

The Rockets also have established business ties to China, stemming from Yao Ming's tenure in Houston, so Lin might have added value.

Death than training, too few people than Yao Ming , on this point, Yao admitted.

So I end this column where it began: What was the last really big game Yao Ming won?

If Yao Ming seems to have some heavy, but he was not funny humorous character with age and dissipation.

There was never a storybook ending for Yao Ming, who ultimately crumbled from the weight of his incredible gift, his unprecedented burden.

But make no mistake about it Yao Ming has lived up to his destiny and has lived up to his potential.

If there was anything to take from the Rockets' preseason opener and Yao Ming's return to the court, the impression left was not about Yao.

I would never ever do something as low-class and distasteful like following Yao Ming back to his home, and try to intrude his privacy.

I hope Yao Ming shoots as efficiently against NO as he did against the Heat.

The wife of Chinese basketball star Yao Ming gave birth to a daughter last Friday at a hospital in Houston, the United States.

Yao Ming once killed a man in Orlando just to see him die. The man's name wasCarlos Arroyo.

The Yao Ming Effect is also influencing the CBA, which actually has no professional connection with the NBA.

Tom is very hard for a better future. To see that Yao Ming is very exciting.

With Yao Ming out of the game, the Rockets turned the little guys loose and LA never could solve that riddle.

Yao Ming did not stop exercising after the he received surgery to repair a broken bone in his left foot on July 21.

The facial resemblance of Yao Ming and Li Yuchun has long been a running joke on Chinese portals.

Sheng Jian, of course, with the lion head is Dayao favorite snack one of the two, the addition of Yao Ming has a soft spot for what food?

Yao Ming returned to training early this year. From then on, his training schedule is going accordingly.

Yao Ming says his surgically repaired left ankle is healing properly and he would like to remain with the Houston Rockets.

Internet searches for her Chinese name return over 41 million hits, more even than Chinese NBA star Yao Ming. Ms.

He has become much more of a playmaker for the Rockets, particularly now that Yao Ming is back in the lineup.

Web site included in the public announcements by Yao Ming and the German famous football player Michael Ballack shot production.

Francis slips past, passes the ball to Yao Ming, who jumps, catches and shoots it into the basket.

Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi, the two basketball players, have been described as the "Walking Great Wall" by some Western sportswriters.

Every year, Yao Ming is difficult to Savior, the Rockets are doing it by halves of the kind of counseling.

No team has rallied around the loss of a great player (Yao Ming) and built an amazing run on emotion, anger and smarts .

While Yao Ming was growing up in Shanghai, wine was served with ice cubes.

The most impressive thing about two of Bryant's blocked shots was that they were on 7-6 Houston center Yao Ming.

After Yao Ming and Liu Xiang, Li Na has become the third person who represents the Asians to stand on the front stage of the World Sports!

Furthermore, the past seven wins have come since All-Star center Yao Ming went down with a fractured foot that ended his season.

This unassuming primary school just off Kangping Lu is where Yao Ming first experienced a shooting competition, when he was in grade one.

Ten several springs and autumn s have passed in a moment, Yao Ming carries book bag's student from one to grow for a present's occupation.

Stress fracture last season, so the absence of Yao Ming the last 26 games, it was not until the Olympic Games back.

Photographers take photos of the lifesize wax figure of Yao Ming, the most popular basketball player in both China and the United States.

Yao ming is a once in a GENERATION TYPE PLAYER . it's a honor for our club and city to have him. we love our big yao.

In 2009, Yao Ming invested in his former team, the Shanghai Sharks, the CBA team from his hometown.

Yao Ming is not only a good image within the NBA but he provides a good platform for companies to promote themselves.

If you do want to see Yao Ming show off his talent, just ask him about changing his daughter's diapers.

From the perspective of the national team, and its fans, Yao Ming was and is irreplaceable.

None of these things fazed the strong-hearted Yao Ming.

Mr. Yi has been China's main connection to the U. S. -based basketball since its most well-known player, Yao Ming, retired this past year.

It is worth repeating, sources confirmed, that Tracy McGrady should always pass the ball to Yao Ming.

Yao Ming is keeping fans in suspense regarding his career plans for a few more days.

After the dream eight won the country basket not to lose fired off the US team, Yao Ming may not need anxiously to retire.

In another year or so, Yao Ming has got a chance to be the most dominant guy, other than Shaq in this league.

Waves of emotion greeted China's delegation as it entered National Stadium, led by flag bearer and basketball superstar Yao Ming.

While his critics might be shaking their heads, I think we can all say that the Yao Ming we have been waiting for has finally arrived.

Yao Ming retires, what do you think of his retirement?

You can't write the history of basketball without Yao Ming, and that's why his legacy ought to someday be recognized in Springfield.

One of Shanghai's most well-known natives, NBA basketball player Yao Ming, become a father this year.

At four, Yao Ming was already taller than most eight-year olds and, unlike his peers who enjoyed free bus rides, he had to pay the fare.

Some analysts blame Yao Ming's wingspan is different from other athletes, his wingspan than his height to be shorter.

the problem is we aren't penetrating the basket. Which we could easily do if we had the old McGrady. Put Yao Ming back in soon damn it!

Yao Ming is an exciting player to watch, but he's also an ambassador to his country.

Yao ming is one of my most favourite basketball players.

Basketball, however, is played by many Chinese urban dwellers, and a player like Yao Ming has become a N. B. A. star.

Yao Ming just went out with the Hilton sisters because "He's not afraid of double-teaming anymore"

NBA star center Yao Ming has got married to his long-term girlfriend Ye Li in their hometown Shanghai on Monday.

Yao Ming is taller than any other player in his team.

Well, we're not getting shorter, it's just that Yao Ming and Ye Li and lots of other people around the world are getting taller.

Houston Rockets centre Yao Ming(see photo) will undergo surgery on a broken bone in his left foot next week, US media reported.

Just then Yao Ming answered the door. In his underwear. Tighty-whites.

Yao Ming is a fine type of basketball player.

When you (CNN) came to China reporting, we never treated you as such. You were asked if you liked Yao Ming before set free.

Yao Ming will always be with you, my dear friends, thank you !

After scoring nine points and grabbing 11 rebounds, Yao Ming fouled out in the overtime with China down by four.

Pleas by celebrities likebasketball star Yao Ming to stop the killing of sharks have done little toquell the feeding frenzy.

'All we need is a local hero -- a Yao Ming of golf would be tremendous for the sport, ' Mr. Chu says.

Yao Ming is the son of two great basketball players and learnt how to play one of the world's most popular games when he was young.

Joining NBA marked the beginning of Yao Ming's successful career.

But Chris Kaman better than Yao Ming? Again, not on your life.

The Houston Rockets center Yao Ming and his basketball star wife Ye Li are expecting their first baby by midyear, numerous reports say.

The Rockets know all about the long reach of China and how the Yao Ming Effect can have an impact.

Yao Ming is generally rated as one of the best basketball players in the world.

Over the past eight years, I have had the pleasure of interviewing basketball star Yao Ming three times.

Artest was given the technical for running to a confrontation after Dallas' Josh Howard fouled Yao Ming.

Now Yao Ming and Rafer Alston have been fully recovered, but Shane Battier and McGrady's injury still feels very worrying.

Former Houston Rockets center Yao Ming may be headed to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame , a lot sooner that anyone thought.

Yao Ming is one of the best basketball players in the world.

The big news out of China this week involved Yao Ming's marriage to longtime girlfriend Ye Li.

Chinese fans love Yao Ming to the degree these you be to try to watch any match these Yao Ming competes in.

Yao Ming painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. . . . without a ladder.

But according to Walton, league executives, and scouts, Yao Ming is not the best center in the NBA.

Yao Ming, once a tall boy who didn't like basketball, has grown up into a basketball star after many years' effort.

Celebrity support for the bid was provided by Yao Ming, a Chinese basketball star, and Sir Richard Branson, a British business star.

Yao Ming is one of the best players in that team.

News that Ye Li, wife of Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, is pregnant obviously has attracted great attention at home and abroad.

Others, including volleyball champion Lang Ping, basketball player Yao Ming, and actress Zhang Ziyi, all have American green cards.

Yao Ming got injured , for the reason, he had to quit the games of this season.

Yao Ming is a marvelous basketball player who was a legend in his country.

Southern Weekend : You mentioned Yao Ming in Shanghai, and I know you are interested in basketball.

In 2002, Yao Ming at the tender age of 22, embarked on a journey that boasted several unknowns.

Yao Ming is one of the most popular basketball players.

Yao Ming announced his retirement, closing the book on the path-breaking career of China's first major international basketball star.

Yao Ming and several Houston Rockets players visited patients at a children's hospital in Houston and handed out gifts.

Yao Ming is a man of towering height.

HOUSTON -- Yao Ming has been working up a sweat and rehabbing his injured right leg for over two months behind closed doors.

Chinese NBA star Yao Ming will carry the torch to ignite a ceremonial cauldron before a celebration at the palace, organizers said.

He said that Yao Ming is much taller than him.

I have been working together with Yao Ming for a long period of time, he was a rookie, I was already a member of the Rockets .

Yao Ming's Olympic experience in his home country came to an end on Wednesday with a 94-68 loss to Lithuania in the quarterfinal round.

Mark Cuban thinks Yao Ming's inclusion on the All-Star team is an example of a flawed voting system.

They did win 55 games in a season knocked sideways by the mid-season injury to Tracy McGrady and season-ending injury to Yao Ming.

Plus, I'm excited to play alongside one of the best players in the league next year. . . Yao Ming.

Yao Ming was supposed to do the same for basketball but almost a decade later there's only a handful of Chinese players in the league.

We are all proud of Yao Ming because he is one of the best basketball players in the world.

Yao Ming, Houston: All indications are that Yao will bounce back fine from the stress fracture in his left foot.

Wang played head-to-head against national team teammate Yao Ming of the Shanghai Sharks in the champion- ship series.

Also, my favorite basketball player Yao Ming, he brought me a lot of surprises.

Yao Ming announced his retirement from basketball at a press conference in Shanghai on Wednesday.

Colludes is one of Yao Ming quite commonly used weapons.

Yao Ming is a good hand rebounds, but was not the best.

Yao Ming landed in the U. S. in the summer of 2002, 7-feet, 6-inches worth of fancy footwork, armed with a soft shooting touch.

If Yao Ming comes to our hometown, I will take a photo with him.

Phil: The Houston Rockets lost again last night. It's their seventh straight defeat! And Yao Ming fouled out. That seriously blows!

No athlete has ever been more important to a host country's Olympic efforts than Yao Ming is to the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.

No, I don't think the Yao Ming poster on my bedroom wall will ever be replaced by a computer two metres high!

The Rocket second attack and defense transforms is bad, their rebound also has lost the control, Yao Ming appears the step limps .

Yao Ming had difficulty fitting in as a boy because he was so much taller than other kids.

Basketball has had a lot of folk heroes who never met their promise, but make no mistake about Yao Ming: He met his destiny.

Already, China has become a plum market for professional basketball, with Yao Ming a star for the Houston Rockets.

So apparently we've learned that it's perfectly legal to do a rolling tackle into yao ming.

The current "chief of staff" Li Jie Tang Yao-ming was the confidant.

Yao Ming called Liu after the surgery to express his congratulations and suggest that he not resume training until he fully recovers.

Adelman of yesterday's training very satisfied, but today the amount of training will be greater, Yao Ming is sidelined.

The Great Wall of China, Yao Ming, was originally created to keep Ron Artest out. He failed miserably.

The Big Man Yao Ming has more than just size: he also has great skill and speed and he is a team player .

'Chinese basketball fans loved Yao Ming because, despite his height, he was accessible, ' Mr. Zhang said.

Among the 841 torch bearers are basketball star Yao Ming, film director Zhang Yimou, and Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut.

Yao Ming has decided to retire after nine NBA seasons.

"He wasn't a very good shooter and dribbler before, but this time he was doing great on both sides, " said Yao Ming.

Celebrities like Chinese basketball star Yao Ming and British tycoon Richard Branson are asking the Chinese to stop eating shark fin soup.

In October 2002, Houston welcomed Yao Ming with a poster: "Let's be part of something big. "

Yao Ming was this close to become the most valuable player in the history of basketball.

Daphne: I did not expect Yao Ming to retire so quickly.

The NBA Hall of fame is a list of the greatest players closest to Yao Ming.

Tang Yao-ming did not want Litianyu as is the "chief of staff" .

"Yao Ming, China, " a boy screamed to a reporter with the China News Agency.

Yao Ming, the first Chinese basketball star in the NBA, carried the flag for China during the opening ceremony .

He instantly was transformed into a megastar in China, on par with his Shanghai buddy, NBA star Yao Ming.

He's missed more time than Yao and his production before and after the injury can't hold a candle to Yao Ming's play.

When Yao Ming went down with a leg injury in late December he was playing the best basketball of his career.

China used 14 players. Liu Wei, Li Xiaoxu and Yao Ming did not play.

China's biggest sports star, basketball player Yao Ming, has announced his retirement after weeks of rumours.

The Rockets and Yao's reps are frightened over his future, and the concern is the most base of all: Does Yao Ming ever play again?

personally to me he is a scottie pippen type player . he needs another superstar besides yao ming.

Yao Ming starts in two weeks and the nation expects big things. John Ray, ITV News, China.

Moreover, they stipulated that Yao Ming should be on call for the national team.

However, the rivalry was both short-lived and overrated as Shaq's power and experience outdid Yao Ming's versatility.

We'll discuss it when Yao Ming gets back to China, ' Bai Xilin, team manager of China's national team, said Tuesday.

Houston center Yao Ming, meanwhile, was the most effective player on the floor, finishing with 28 points and 10 rebounds.

Despite what everyone has learned throughout their education, Yao Ming was inf act the first person to discover America.

This simple six-story building, located on Kangping Lu, Xuhui district, is where Yao Ming spent his childhood.

When the Shanghai Expo was casting celebrity spokespeople, they chose seven men (including Yao Ming and Jackie Chan) and Yang.

After Yao Ming's left leg bone stress bone fracture, we have understood a new term "the infectious mononucleosis" .

It's always been my dream to meet Yao Ming.

Yao Ming was taller than all the other boys in his class in his school days.

Chinese fans love Yao Ming to the degree that they will try to watch any match that Yao Ming competes in.

Yao Ming has already distinguished himself as an athlete.

Yao ming is working hard to live his dream and show the world that Chinese basketball players love this game too!

Yao Ming has also thrown himself into charity work and public service, and become a famous sports celebrity.

Amid pollution, traffic and human-rights concerns, Beijing is facing a new Olympic threat: Yao Ming's left foot.

Even though I retire from basketball, I'll still care Yao Ming, Chinese national team and Houston Rockets.

Yao Ming said when he was asked about the weakest point of Houston Rockets.

Yao Ming may be more than Garnett in the field more, but in the new season, Yao Ming scored since Artest's arrival will be dropped.

Yao Ming, Chinese NBA basketball star, will carry the Chinese national flag at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.

I wish Yao Ming would invite me to lunch.

In the press conference room, Yao Ming sat comfortably on his leather chair.

However, what Yao Ming is teaching us is a lesson that the NBA and all who watch it should learn.

in the history of the NBA, not even Michael Jordan, has received more fanfare than Yao Ming.

After Yao Ming entered the NBA in 2002, remember the excitement about the impending influx of talented Chinese seven-footers into the NBA?

The one-and-half-hour documentary follows Yao Ming's first year in the United States.

Yao Ming usually does not want to think of himself as special, but he is and always was.

"Mark - Bellman. " Yao Ming another joke kicks in the subconscious situation.

Yao Ming will be out of action for weeks because of his knee injury.

I'm playing with the best swing man, Tracey McGrady and the best center in the NBA, Yao Ming.

These questions are fair game, as one online comment puts it, since 'Yao Ming's kid is public property. '

Yao Ming is the reason why Kobe Bryant and our NBA stars are treated like movie stars in the Beijing Olympics.

The biggest sports star - both in height and popularity - is basketball player Yao Ming.

Yao Ming carries the national flag for team China during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, August 8, 2008.

China's most popular star, Yao Ming, championed the program pledging to never again eat shark fin soup, generating 300 news stories.

Maybe you say why you don't think Yao Ming is a hero, and he is also a Chinese basketball player who has joined NBA.

Once, Tracy McGrady threw a perfect lob to Yao Ming for a dunk.

Yao Ming comes from Shanghai, China, a world as distant to most Houstonians as the other side of the moon.

Alot of his friends and team mates joined him in the party, including Yao Ming, who took his steady girl friend Ye Li along.

Yao Ming is very taller than I.

Yao Ming in the training and common confrontations, I played a great help.

The best part of the Jet Skiing was when Yao Ming fell off and couldn't climb back on.

Yao Ming was a bag of nerves watching the NBA Draft in Shanghai five years ago.

Those who let Yao Ming impatient to get back is in Houston's wife.

He will also be partnering back up with his former teammate, Yao Ming.

Yao Ming with teammate and good friend Steve Francis look on during the regular season game against Washington Wizards January 13, 2004.

Rockets vs Lakers. Yao Ming, my idol, will appear in front of several hundred million of the worldwide audience.

Read the profile of Yao Ming, a great Chinese basketball player.

Months old sub-floor, confined G, Yao Ming from the house with a spring.

The dinosaurs became extinct because Yao Ming needed breakfast.

In his last season with the Shanghai Sharks, Chinese superstar basketball player Yao Ming scored 32. 4 Points per game.

Afterwards is the briefly uber-popular Brother Sharp, aka "Prince of Beggars" at 13% followed by Yao Ming, the NBA baller superstar at 3%.

In fact that is one of the reasons why Yao Ming was injured continuously.

In his last season with the Shanghai Shark, Chinese superstar basketball player Yao Ming scored 32. 4 points per game.

The centers of China Men's Team Yao ming and Wang zhizhi showed their special characters, they could compete with other's centers.

Their flag was carried higher than anyone else's, but then it was carried by the 7ft 6in basketball player Yao Ming.

Was a teammate of Yao Ming on the Chinese national team. Probably more like Hedo Turkoglu than Magic.

This, Yao Ming had found " revenges " the opportunity finally.

Some Americans call her the female Yao Ming, but most Chinese mainlanders hate her.

Dawson then helped the Rockets acquire several young talents in the following years, including Cuttino Mobley, Steve Francis and Yao Ming.

After serious consideration, we have decided that Yao Ming will be the flag bearer.

Coca-Cola, Visa and Reeb-ok chose Yao Ming, the basketball star to endorse their brands.

Daniel: Never mind. After all he is not so attractive as Yao Ming, right?

Sports star Yao Ming also believe in "is a good training ? a hard one before. "

The big bed was specially made for Yao Ming, the giant basketball player.

Yao Ming will miss two weeks, that's almost always what players with bone bruises miss.

In playing basketball, Yao Ming has an obvious advantage over others.

Yao Ming is one always places the national interest the first player.

His hobby is playing basketball, he played against Yao Ming on behalf of Brunei.

Yao Ming is working hard to live his dream and show the world that Chinese basketballplayers love this game too!

With Yao Ming out of the picture, China represents a wide-open market.

The biggest roar came when Yao Ming, the giant China basketball star, led in the hosts.

Yao Ming, Stromile Swift and Derek Anderson Traded to Kings for Brad Miller, Mike Bibby and Shareef Abdur-Rahim.

I really want to say "Thank you, Yao Ming. You are my role model in my life. "

" Yao Ming told reporters, " When the baby cries at night, I just kick my wife and everything is done.

Yao Ming had to great season. May to go , Yao Ming!

Jake: Really? Man, this is interesting tend with us Greece players. I use to be Yao Ming back at home, but now I am mostly a bench warmer.

If I were as high as Yao Ming.

Yao Ming, the bigger man, the more polished player, won most of the battles.

Man in the 3rd picture, you are holding up a Tracy Mcgrady Jersey in front of yao ming. . .

Yao Ming made an impression on all the fans in the match yesterday.

JVG: "Yao! Yao! Don't think, just shoot! " JVG after Yao Ming commits a turnover.

As a result, the Rockets failed to gel and Yao Ming's improvement was stunted.

Yao Ming had a great game last night. He scored 44 points.

Andy: China team would be more powerful if Yao Ming could join.

BEIJING -- Yao Ming will return to light training with China's national team Friday, and expects to play in pre-Olympic warm-up games.

They clapped and shouted excitedly when they saw Yao Ming appear on the playground.