https://www.scmp.com/rss/500647/feed The latest news on Yao Ming, Chinese basketball executive and former professional player, including basketball and sports news. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Houston Rockets CEO Tad Brown will step down at the end of the NBA season, he announced on Friday, after 19 years at the team who were long China’s No 1. The Rockets, who had made the play-offs for a team record eight straight seasons, will not play this postseason and Brown will leave. They made the play-offs 13 seasons during Brown’s time in Houston. Brown, who started with the organisation as Vice-President of Corporate Development in 2002 before moving to CEO in 2006, was asked for his... https://www.scmp.com/sport/basketball/article/3130914/retiring-houston-rockets-ceo-tad-brown-calls-yao-ming-career?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/basketball/article/3130914/retiring-houston-rockets-ceo-tad-brown-calls-yao-ming-career?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 24 Apr 2021 03:40:44 +0000 After the general manager of the Houston Rockets drew a backlash in China with a tweet in support of anti-government demonstrations in Hong Kong, the NBA swung into damage-control mode. The remarks of Daryl Morey had “deeply offended” fans, the league said in a statement on Monday morning, “which is regrettable.” But in an illustration of the political tightrope that foreign companies are forced to walk to secure access to the world’s second-biggest economy, the NBA’s statement in Chinese went... https://www.scmp.com/sports/nba-executives-tweet-hong-kong-stirs-fury-china/article/3031855?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sports/nba-executives-tweet-hong-kong-stirs-fury-china/article/3031855?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:10:11 +0000 As team China looked set for a defeat, Yao Ming appeared to be in agony. Hours later, a photo of the basketball star on the verge of tears rippled across Chinese social media as sports fans pondered the country’s prospect of making it to the Olympics. In a loss on Sunday that cost the Chinese men’s national team a direct ticket to the all-important 2020 Games, China suffered an 86 to 73 defeat to Nigeria in its final FIBA Basketball World Cup game. If the team fails to win the Olympic... https://www.scmp.com/sports/yao-ming-cries-after-national-team-suffered-fiba-world-cup-loss/article/3026350?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sports/yao-ming-cries-after-national-team-suffered-fiba-world-cup-loss/article/3026350?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Sep 2019 09:15:51 +0000 China is crazy about basketball, and if there’s any way to gauge just how basketball-crazy China is, look no further than the NBA’s account on Weibo, China’s Twitter. The account has over 33 million followers, six million more than the NBA’s account on actual Twitter. And last June, when the NBA playoffs were streamed on Weibo, the account had more than two billion views. “Basketball has never been more popular in China,” NBA China chief David Shoemaker said during a 2017 announcement to open... https://www.scmp.com/videos/nba-basketball-chinas-favorite-sport/article/3007773?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/videos/nba-basketball-chinas-favorite-sport/article/3007773?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Apr 2019 04:39:43 +0000