For the longest time this season, point guard Rafer Alston says, there wasn't much reason for teams to be fearful of the Rockets. Tracy McGrady missed 13 games over three stretches due to back spasms.

For a 19-year-old center from China, being compared to Yao Ming is high praise — and heavy pressure. When it’s coming from new Liberty owner Joe Tsai — one of the richest men in China — even more so.

Yao Ming was one of the most influential big men in the NBA in the 2000s. What if his NBA career went down one of these five alternate paths? Chinese seven-footer Yao Ming will be enshrined in the ...

Debates about on-court chemistry will have to wait as the league works its way through an international issue. By Marc Stein China’s state-run television canceled broadcasts of two preseason games ...

The best game of Yao Ming's career - 41 points, 16 rebounds, 7 assists - came in a thrilling triple-overtime win over Atlanta.