

They had first met in 1998 but Ye was not very fond of him at that time.
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Yao Ming as seen in an Instagram Post in November 2018 (Yao Ming / Instagram) Sun Sign Ming Dynasty, The Great Wall, Beast from the Far East, Ming the Merciless, Chairman Yao, Shaquie Chan, The China Man He was inducted into the ‘Basketball Hall of Fame’ in 2016.
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He had retired from professional basketball due to a series of foot and ankle injuries which had forced him to miss 250 games in his last 6 seasons in the NBA. Yao was included in the ‘ NBA All-Rookie First Team’ (2003) and the annual ‘ NBA All-Star Game’ 8 times (2003–2009, 2011).

He was drafted 1st overall in the 1st round of the 2002 NBA Draft by the Houston Rockets. From 2000 to 2002, he was the league’s leader in both rebounds and blocks. A year ago, he was named both the CBA ‘MVP’ and the CBA ‘Finals MVP’. With the Shanghai Sharks, he had won the CBA championship in 2002, his last year with the team. Yao Ming is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional basketball player who had represented the Shanghai Sharks (1997–2002) in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the Houston Rockets (2002–2011) in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
