"I wish everything will work out well for Yao Ming, " says another teenage basketball fan.
Perhaps the most promoted and well-known hero today is the basketball player Yao Ming.
Asian-Americans lost Yao Ming (to retirement) but this kind of sensation could carry over to any race.
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In 2006 WildAid also famously recruited Yao Ming, the 7-foot-6 NBA star, to swear off shark fin.
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He will now play for the former team of Chinese center, Yao Ming.
By 2002 more people would be watching Houston Rockets games in China (thanks to Yao Ming) than in Houston.
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Kobe has the top selling NBA jersey in China, blowing the doors off Yao Ming jerseys for three years straight.
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Yao also continues to work with the Yao Ming Foundation building schools in earthquake-affected regions in Sichuan and other provinces in China.
Chan beat basketball star Yao Ming, who had dominated the list for six consecutive years, Forbes China magazine reported in its latest issue.
Retired basketball star Yao Ming, who is attending his first CPPCC session, says the market should support popular sports like tennis, basketball and football.
Lin's move to the Rockets who in 2002 became relevant on an international scale upon drafting China's Yao Ming gives the franchise the league's lone Asian-American athlete.
It has also garnered dozens of celebrity supporters, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Bo Derek, Yao Ming, Scarlett Johansson, Megan Fox, Edward Norton and Paul Rudd.
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Only Yao Ming (2002, Reebok), Dwight Howard (2004, Adidas), Derrick Rose (2008, Adidas) and John Wall (2010, Reebok) have signed with other brands.
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China's joy was cut short when their basketball superstar Yao Ming threatened to give up international basketball after his side lost their opener 83-58 to Spain.
McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ), which has a "worldwide partnership" with NBA star Yao Ming, has been expanding rapidly there.
The newspaper features a photo of retired basketball player Yao Ming, who will attend the two sessions next week, frowning at the sky outside his hotel in Beijing.
Distributed by French beverage giant Pernod Ricard SA, bottles in the first 5, 000-case run will be labeled simply Yao Ming and aimed at the top end of the market.
Ma Bang added that the player from Jiangsu Province has been placed in the same league as China's NBA export Yao Ming and 110m hurdles record holder Liu Xiang.
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And of course, Yao Ming is just one signal of our shared love of basketball -- I'm only sorry that I won't be able to see a Shanghai Sharks game while I'm visiting.
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The plan, says Zhao Qian, another manager at Taihe, is to put the Back Dormitory Boys together with their idol, Yao Ming, a Chinese basketball prodigy who plays centre for the Houston Rockets.
Retired Yao Ming (7-foot-6) is a fellow Oddball, along with current players Dante Cunningham (6-foot-8), Andre Drummond (6-foot-10), Blake Griffin (6-foot-10), Perry Jones III (6-foot-11) and Channing Frye (6-foot-11), just to name a few.
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Current NBA players Chandler Parsons, David Lee, Tyson Chandler, Stephen Curry, Steve Novak and Joakim Noah and retired Rockets center Yao Ming were among those who attended the event, held in the atrium and concourse at Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros.
Unless Yao Ming, of the Houston Rockets, leads the Chinese past Kobe Bryant and the Americans to a gold medal, it is Lang Lang, a gifted pianist prone to red silk tuxedos and Lisztian histrionics at the keyboard, who is likeliest to emerge as the Chinese performer most enriched by the Olympics.
If Lee winds up in Tokyo he would most likely be given a title more elaborate than that of the current director, Chuang Ming-yao.
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