Yao Thrills Capacity Crowd at First China NBA Game
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Yao Ming&#39;s Houston Rockets squeezed past the Sacramento Kings on Thursday in the first NBA game to be played in China, a country the fast-growing basketball league deems a potential marketing mecca.
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Yao Ming has cemented his stature as one of the dominant big men in the National Basketball Association, and now he has a chance to become an integral part of the league's most explosive one-two tandem.
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SHANGHAI - Yao Ming&#39;s Houston Rockets squeezed past the Sacramento Kings on Thursday in the first National Basketball Association game to be played in China, a country the fast-growing basketball league deems a potential marketing mecca.
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After a gruelling few days in his hometown of Shanghai for the first NBA game in China on Thursday, the Houston Rockets centre has had some time to unwind since arriving in Beijing.
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Hometown hero Yao Ming scored 14 points to lead the Houston Rockets to an 88-86 win over the Sacramento Kings Thursday night in the first ever NBA game played in China.
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China's Yi Jianlian, the 2-meter tall power forward who may be taken in the top-10 of Thursday's NBA Draft, is looking forward to playing against Houston's Chinese center Yao Ming.
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The Houston Rockets' Yao Ming, helped by the ability of fans to cast votes on the NBA's multi-lingual website, received a record total of 2.56 million votes for the 54th All-Star Game.
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The NBA will embark on its biggest promotional event in China when it rolls out a &quot;two-on-two&quot; competition in 112 cities involving up to 35,000 players, league officials said here Wednesday.
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Chinese center Yao Ming had 29 points and nine rebounds but he could not save the Houston Rockets from the 102-96 defeat by the Sacramen to Kings Tuesday.
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China&#39;s Yi Jianlian, the 2-meter tall  power forward who may be taken in the top-10 of Thursday&#39;s NBA  Draft, is looking forward to playing against Houston&#39;s Chinese  center Yao Ming.
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The Houston Rockets beat the Milwaukee Bucks 91-83 on Saturday in a game featuring the second NBA matchup between Chinese players Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian.
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HOUSTON, Texas  - Yao Ming scored 22 points and pulled down 12 rebounds to lead the Houston Rockets to a 92-77 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday.
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Famed Chinese basketball player Yao Ming, an all-star basketball player with the Houston Rockets, has applied to visit Taiwan on a trip that would score one for Beijing's agenda of uniting the two territories.
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The United States hardly gave Yao Ming a chance. Using a swarming defense and their huge advantage in depth to make life miserable for China and its All-Star center, the Americans rolled to a 121-90 victory Sunday night to remain unbeaten at the world championships.
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The NBA has come to booming, basketball-crazy China &#151; but it doesn't expect to make any money soon.
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BEIJING - The Sacramento Kings beat the Houston Rockets in a nail-biter pre-season game in Beijing on Sunday, 91-89, on a baseline jumpshot by reserve guard Bobby Jackson in the final seconds.
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Houston Rockets center Yao Ming of China was voted into the National Basketball Association All-Star Game by fans for the sixth straight year in balloting for the starters announced on Thursday.