Yao Ming hits back at "privileged" jibes
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Houston Rockets centre Yao Ming has hit back at an official Chinese newspaper that branded him "privileged" and accused him of using injuries as an excuse to avoid national team duties, local media reported.
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A day before starring in the NBA&#39;s first China game, Yao Ming went back to school. All the way back. The 7-foot-6 center visited his old elementary school Wednesday as part of an NBA sponsored program to promote reading.
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Yao Ming'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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The NBA flew more than 100 people halfway around the world for its first games in China this week. Chinese-born star Yao Ming was there with the Houston Rockets for games against the Sacramento Kings.
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SHANGHAI : Hometown fans of Chinese basketball star Yao Ming will see their hero in action for no more than 28 minutes when the NBA&#39;s first ever tip-off in China takes place this week.
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Yao Ming was back in the Houston Rockets' lineup. Too bad he didn't feel like a pro.
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To New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas, hearing a white man refer to a black woman using a certain vulgar term would be "highly offensive."
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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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A day before starring in the NBA's first China game, Yao Ming went back to school. All the way back. The 7-foot-6 center visited his old elementary school Wednesday as part of an NBA sponsored program to promote reading. That was just one part of the league's promotional juggernaut that has descended on Yao's hometown ahead of Thursday's exhibition game against the Sacramento Kings, the first NBA game in China.
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Houston Rockets Chinese center Yao  Ming is bored, rested and itching to get back on the court  after a two-month sabbatical to heal his ailing knee.
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Sacramento Kings guard Bobby Jackson, right, tries to shoot over the outstretched arm of Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, of China, left, during the fourth quarter in Sacramento, Calif.
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A claim by Gambian President Yahya Jammeh that he can cure Aids is lambasted by a leading HIV specialist.
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Hometown fans of Chinese basketball star Yao Ming will see their hero in action for no more than 28 minutes when the NBA's first ever tip-off in China takes place this week.
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I&#39;m mad at people who think it&#39;s funny to taunt black soccer players. I&#39;m saddened that a small group - I hope it&#39;s just a small group but I have my doubts â-f stupid fans are ruining, what
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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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The NBA is considering playing some of its regular season games in China, commissioner David Stern said Friday. The Sacramento Kings and Houston Rockets, team of Chinese national Yao Ming
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Six-time NBA champion Scottie Pippen on Wednesday urged Chinese star Yi Jianlian to reconsider his refusal to play for the Milwaukee Bucks, the team that chose him in last month&#39;s draft.