Chinese basketball star and Houston Rockets center Yao Ming (C) walks with AIDS orphans Ding Kaipeng (L) and Zhang Yun during an HIV/AIDS awareness event at the Tsinghua University in Beijing July 17, 2005. Yao returned to China this week to take part in the NBA outreach event. [Reuters]
Houston Rockets' Chinese centre Yao Ming expects a medal finish for the nation's basketball team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Houston Rockets' NBA star Yao Ming Monday came back to China, ahead of his schedule.
"The Year of the Yao", an 89-minute film giving a behind-the-scenes look at Yao Ming's first NBA season, is set to make a US debut.
Yao Ming had 27 points and a career-high 22 rebounds to help the Rockets defeat the Suns 127-107.
The Miami Heat, battling for the top record in the NBA, placed Chinese center Wang Zhi-Zhi on the injured list with a respiratory infection.
Yao Ming scored 23 points, including the winning free throws with 15.2 seconds left, to lead Houston to a 103-102 victory over the Lakers.
The Houston Rockets' Yao Ming, helped by the ability of fans to cast votes on the NBA's multi-lingual website, received a record total of 2.56 million votes for the 54th All-Star Game.
Yao received 2,558,278 votes in winning the starting center for the Western Conference All-Star team for the 3rd straight year.
Since joining the Houston Rockets as the NBA top draft pick in 2002, Chinese basketball star Yao has made himself the best known and richest sportsman in China.
Yao Ming scored a season-high 40 points and Tracy McGrady added 34 and 12 rebounds as the Rockets posted a 114-102 victory over the Toronto Raptors.
Yao Ming, the Houston Rockets' third-year centre from China, is the early overall leader in fan voting for the NBA All-Star Game.
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