101.5 KNUE Country Radio » yao ming http://knue.com Thu, 23 May 2013 17:07:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Yao Ming Retires After Injury-Plagued Career http://knue.com/yao-ming-retires-after-injury-plagued-career/ http://knue.com/yao-ming-retires-after-injury-plagued-career/#comments Sat, 09 Jul 2011 17:00:57 +0000 KNUE http://knue.com/?p=15834 Oft-injured Houston Rockets center Yao Ming has informed the NBA he has retired after eight seasons in the league. Yahoo! Sports first reported the news.

The top pick in the 2002 draft was an eight-time all-star, despite averaging just 48 games in each of the last five seasons. Yao appeared in only five games during the 2010-11 season after suffering a stress fracture in his left leg Nov. 10.

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