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Despite missing 21 games while recovering, [14] Yao again had the most fan votes to start the 2006 NBA All-Star Game. [74] In 25 games after the All-Star break, Yao averaged 25.7 points and 11.6 rebounds per game, while shooting 53.7% from the field and 87.8% at the free-throw line. [75]
Former Houston Rockets star Yao Ming has stepped down as head of China’s struggling national basketball league. An eight-time NBA All-Star, Yao had been leading efforts to commercialize the top ...
This resulted in China deploying another team in this tournament, while their primary team led by NBA star Yao Ming and rookie Yi Jianlian participated in the Stankovic Cup and tournaments and friendlies with countries across Europe to prepare themselves. Iran won their first championship after beating 2-time silver medalists Lebanon, 74–69.
The NBA became the first American professional sports league to compete in China as two Rockets preseason games were played there in 2004, two years after Yao entered the league. In 2007, Yi Jianlian , joined the NBA after his years in the CBA and played on the Milwaukee Bucks .
For the second straight season, a French star has been selected No. 1 overall in the NBA Draft. ... and the Houston Rockets selected Chinese star Yao Ming No. 1 overall in 2002.
The 2009–10 Houston Rockets season was the 43rd season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The news broke in the off-season when center Yao Ming would miss the upcoming season due to foot surgery. This injury would soon be considered career-threatening.
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The Rockets won at least 50 games for the second straight season and made the playoffs also on the back of a 22-game winning streak, the fourth longest in the history of the NBA. The Houston Rockets came into the 2007–2008 playoffs without Yao Ming, who was still injured.