The number one basketball player in China - Yao Ming. When people talk about Yao Ming, they will invariably think of the NBA. Even those who don’t play basketball have heard about Yao Ming’s stories in the NBA. Yao Ming is also a Chinese player. The first Chinese player to enter the All-Star lineup, he entered the NBA Houston Rockets as the No. 1 pick in 2002. From 2003 to 2009, he was selected to the All-Star lineup 8 times, the NBA All-NBA Second Team twice, and the NBA All-NBA Team three times. At the same time, after retiring, Yao Ming was also elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. These achievements are unprecedented in China and have no successor. It is not an exaggeration to say that Yao Ming is the number one basketball player in China.

Yao Ming was born on September 12, 1980 in Xuhui District, Shanghai. His ancestral home is Zhenze Town, Wujiang District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Today, Yao Ming has retired for nearly ten years and has retreated to the second tier. He is currently the Asian Basketball Federation Chairman of the Association, Chairman and General Manager of the Chinese Professional League Company, Chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, and winner of the Reform Pioneer Medal. It can be said that Yao Ming and his achievements have successfully promoted the basketball atmosphere in China and made the basketball atmosphere in China soaring. At the same time, Yao Ming has also made outstanding contributions to public welfare. In 2008, Yao Ming launched the Yao Foundation, a public welfare organization dedicated to aiding education, promoting healthy development of young people, and the 2020 Yao Foundation Charity Competition was officially launched in Beijing.

Among the games that Yao Ming participated in, the one that impressed me most was the match between the Chinese men’s basketball team and the Dream Team in the 2008 Olympics. 2008 was really the pinnacle of our country’s basketball. On the field, our country’s Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Yi Jianlian was the starter against the American Dream Team 8. Our country had been completely defeated in the previous four encounters. Although we also lost this time, he showed us the passion of the Chinese men's basketball team and at the end of the second quarter, Our country actually fought to a 29-level tie with the powerful Dream Team, which was unprecedented. In the end, China lost to the United States 70-101. However, it created the smallest point difference in the history of Sino-U.S. confrontations and set its ranking at the Olympic Games. 8. Although defeated, it is still glorious.