But that was the first and last we saw of O’Neal and Ming in the playoffs. Shaq headed East to the Miami Heat following the 2003-2004 season, and Yao’s Rockets missed the playoffs when Miami ...

If you put this year’s Basketball Hall of Fame inductees Yao Ming, Allen Iverson and Shaquille O’Neal in a room together, which one do you think is going to talk the most? If you guessed ...

Two of the NBA's most recognizable and retired big men found some time to hang out recently, and it turns out Yao Ming can even make a man as big as Shaquille O'Neal look small. The pair met up ...

ATLANTA — Yao Ming awaits. Shaquille O’Neal shrugs. “Just another game for me,” he said. Maybe. O’Neal did not appreciate the publicity generated by Shaq-Yao I, Jan. 17 in Houston ...

Yao leads Shaq in Asian voting ... Thus, paradoxically, it seems the 7'6" Yao Ming has become somewhat an afterthought in the international commercialism he precipitated. That's oddly fitting ...

As Shaquille O'Neal unanimously claimed the most dominant center title in the NBA during the early 2000s, a new giant was making waves across the ocean – China's Yao Ming. Standing tall and ...

Yao Ming is retiring from the NBA ... for being a disappointment through no fault of his own. Given that Shaq, for a time a true rival for Yao and one of the best centers ever, also retired ...

As Hall of Fame president and CEO John Doleva tried to put Yao Ming's jacket on him, the 7-foot-1 Shaq swooped in to help the 7-foot-6 Chinese star: SHAQ racks up one more assist, helping Yao with ...

Shaquille O'Neal is 7'1" and perhaps the most physically imposing player the NBA has ever seen. Yao Ming, at 7'6", dwarfs him in a photo posted to Shaq's Instagram. Yao wasn't just tall ...

Hall of Famer and 8x All Star, Yao Ming sat with fellow Hall of Famer, Shaquille ONeal to reminisce about his journey to the NBA from China. Yao discusses when his love for the game began and the ...

Yao Ming was the show during an interview session ... “As far as performance, people can see the difference between me and Shaq,” he said. Yao averages 13 points plus 8.1 rebounds and is ...

As the camera bulbs flashed in the eyes of the NBA’s latest scribe, a media horde waited its turn for a one-minute interview with Houston center Yao Ming ... that Shaquille O’Neal has bolted ...