NBA: Yao Ming Thrills Hometown Fans During Exhibition Game
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National Basketball Association star Yao Ming of China thrilled his hometown fans with 14 points to lead the Houston Rockets to an 88-86 win over the Sacramento Kings in Shanghai.
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Yao Ming has 37 points and four blocked shots in his biggest game since returning to the lineup, leading the Rockets to a 103-92 victory over the Magic on Sunday.
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Tracy McGrady says Chinese center Yao  Ming has come of age as an NBA player and expects the two of  them to make this a big year for the Houston Rockets.
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LOS ANGELES - Fans gave former Laker Shaquille O&#39;Neal a warm ovation today in his first game at Staples Center since being traded to the Miami Heat.
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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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Despite the mediocre performance of his Houston Rockets, Chinese center Yao Ming remains the top vote-getter in fan ballotting for the National Basketball Association All-Star game.
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China&#39;s basketball star Yao Ming is to take centre stage in the first National Basketball Association game to be played in China, later on Thursday.
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Yao Ming is more than 60,000 votes ahead of Shaquille O&#39;Neal in the race to finish No. 1 overall in NBA All-Star game balloting.
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The crowd chanted Yao Ming's name all game, soaking up the novelty of the NBA in another tribute to a player who is fast becoming a one-man basketball marketing force in China.
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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 has come to booming, basketball-crazy China &#151; but it doesn't expect to make any money soon. The league flew more than 100 people halfway around the world for its first games in China, featuring the Houston Rockets &#151; with Chinese-born star Yao Ming &#151; and the Sacramento Kings.
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Shaquille O'Neal made sure the arena was filled. Dwyane Wade took care of sending the record crowd home happy.
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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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The local newspapers had already spent several days building it up as The Return of the Legend - Yao Ming&#39;s homecoming to China with the Rockets.
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The crowd chanted Yao Ming&#39;s name all game, soaking up the novelty of the NBA in another tribute to a player who is fast becoming a one-man basketball marketing force in China.
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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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Houston Rockets centre Yao Ming is the early overall leader in fan voting for the NBA All-Star Game. The Chinese star collected 881,223 votes in the first returns announced Thursday.