Yao Ming is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association and the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. In April 2016, Yao was elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, alongside Shaquille O’Neal and Allen Iverson. He was unanimously elected as chairman of Chinese basketball Association in February 2017.
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Yao Ming is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association and the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. He is the only player from outside of the United States to lead the NBA in All-Star votes. In April 2016, Yao was elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, alongside Shaquille O’Neal and Allen Iverson. Yao is one of China’s best-known athletes, with sponsorships with several major companies. His success in the NBA, and his popularity among fans, made him a symbol of a new China that was both more modern and more confident. In February 2017, he was unanimously elected as chairman of Chinese basketball Association. Yao was born in Shanghai and is the son of 6-foot-7-inch Yao Zhiyuan and 6-ft-3-inch Fang Fengdi, both of whom were former professional basketball players. At 11 pounds, Yao weighed more than twice as much as the average Chinese newborn. In July 2011, Yao announced his retirement from professional basketball because of a series of foot and ankle injuries which forced him to miss 250 games in his last six seasons. Yao measured 5 feet 5 inches and was examined by sports doctors, who predicted he would grow to 7 feet 3 inches. Yao first tried out for a Shanghai Sharks junior team when he was 13 years old, and practiced ten hours a day for his acceptance. After playing with the junior team for four years, Yao joined the senior team of the Sharks, where he averaged 10 points and 8 rebounds a game in his rookie season.
His next season was cut short when he broke his foot for the second time in his career, which Yao said decreased his jumping ability by four to six inches. The Sharks made the finals of the CBA in Yao’s third season and again the next year, but lost both times to the Bayi Rockets. In his final year with Shanghai, Yao averaged 38. 9 points and 20. 2 rebounds a game, while shooting 76. 6% from the field, and made all 21 of his shots during one game in the finals. In eight seasons with the Rockets, Yao ranks sixth among franchise leaders in total points and total rebounds, and second in total blocks. In 2002, Yao signed a contract with Evergreen Sports Inc. to serve as his agent. The agreement entitled Evergreen to 33% of Yao’s earnings, but the contract was later determined to be invalid. As American basketball became more popular in China, the Chinese government released him and other half of his earnings to the government and China national basketball association, including endorsements as well as his salaries. Yao’s agent, Bill Sanders, came to be known as “Team Yao”; a group of advisers was formed that came to know as “Yao”; his Chinese agent, Lu Hao; and the vice president for marketing and marketing at BDA Sports Management, Bill Duffy.
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