When Yao Ming brought down the curtain on his larger-than-life career in the NBA last year, he said, “But one door is closing and another one is opening.” Little did we realize at the time that basketball’s 7-foot-6-inch ambassador would be opening so many doors in such a short time. Read the rest of this entry »
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Yao Appears on Inaugural ‘Wine Enthusiast’ China Cover
Wine Enthusiast Magazine, the world’s largest wine media company, has revealed plans to publish a Mandarin edition that will launch in China. The plans also included the news that BDA client Yao Ming will grace the inaugural cover of the Mandarin version. Yao is no stranger to the wine industry since the debut of Yao Family Wines in 2011, marketing his brand to the top-end of China’s emerging wine culture. Read the rest of this entry »
Nostalgia runs deep in Yao’s bittersweet return to Houston
The two equipment managers walked along with arms filled by about a half-dozen extra-extra-long crutches and enough jumbo plastic boots to immobilize an army marching to a cadence of: “Fee-fi-fo-fum!”
It was both a comical and bittersweet sight as Yao Ming soon followed them down the hallway.
For the first time since he announced his premature retirement from the NBA last summer, Yao returned to his adopted hometown without so much as a limp. Read the rest of this entry »
Yao Ming Goes Back to School
Yao Ming, whose career was cut short by injury, has started classes at Jiaotong University, one of the top universities in his hometown Shanghai.
He joked to reporters Monday after his first day of classes that “the teacher showed me some mercy and did not leave me any homework.” Read the rest of this entry »
