Yao Ming
Photo by Prphotos Place of Birth: Shanghai, China Date of Birth: September 12, 1980 Ethnicity: Chinese Yao Ming Is a Chinese Professional Basketball Player and...
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Place of Birth: Shanghai, China
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Date of Birth: September 12, 1980
Ethnicity: Chinese
Yao Ming is a Chinese professional basketball player and executive. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), and the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been President of the Chinese Basketball Association, since February 23, 2017, and a Member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (12th), from March 2013 to March 2018. He is 7′6″.
He is the son of professional basketball players Fang Fengdi and Yao Zhiyuan. His father is 6′7″ and his mother is 6′3″. He is married to professional basketball player Ye Li, with whom he has a daughter.
Ming’s paternal grandfather was named Yao Xueming.
Ming’s paternal grandmother was named Xu Lizhen.
Source: Biography of Yao Ming – Yao Ming: The Road to the NBA, 2004, by Xiao Chunfei
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