Listening to the talk this week, you might wonder if Shaquille O’Neal received a pacifier for his 37th birthday. Perhaps Yao Ming re-gifted one of his. Yep, the two big ol’ 7-foot-plus stars gathered ...

Yao did not try to play down the significance of an event that has spawned many subtitles: Shaq Fu vs. Ming the Merciless, Shaq Daddy vs. Chairman Yao, The Big Aristotle vs. The Little Giant.

Jeff Van Gundy had the pleasure of coaching Yao Ming during his tenure with the Houston Rockets. Early on, Van Gundy recognized Yao's immense talent as a player. At 7'6," Yao clearly had the height ...

HOUSTON (AP) - All it took was 3 minutes for Yao Ming to show Shaquille O'Neal that this would no mismatch. Yao blocked O'Neal's first three shots, altered Kobe Bryant's attempt at the end of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame will soon welcome two of the sport's game-changing stars -- one big and one small. Shaquille O'Neal and Allen Iverson headline ...

The latest man to join the NBA big man alliance hails from China, 20-year-old Hansen Yang, who, as it turns out, idolized the expected role models growing up. That was until a certain Serbian in ...

It was supposed to be the night a rivalry was born, but Friday night's game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Rockets instead gave birth to a legend. With all the hype surrounding the matchup ...

(Reuters) - Yao Ming, who inspired a generation of NBA fans in his native China, wistfully acknowledged a career that "ended too soon" as he was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame on ...