Yao Ming and Ye Li can be called a pair of fairy couples in Chinese sports, and after marriage, Yao Ming once publicly said that he would have 5 children with Ye Li, and the fans exclaimed at that time, isn't this exactly a basketball lineup? However, 16 years have passed, Yao Ming and Ye Li have only one daughter, Yao Qinlei, and the "little Yao Ming" that people expect has not appeared. Yao Ming also frankly said that he didn't want his daughter to become an only child, so why didn't Yao Ming and Ye Li have more children? Today we will talk about Yao Ming's love story.
★ In the domestic league, Yao Ming dominated the entire basketball scene for 5 years
Yao Ming's ancestral home is Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, born in September 1980 in Shanghai, Yao Ming was born in a sports family, his father Yao Zhiyuan is 208 cm tall, his mother Fang Fengdi is 188 cm tall, they were both basketball players, so Yao Ming was born 60 cm long and weighed 5 kg, almost double the weight of ordinary babies. Yao Ming's parents are ordinary wage earners after retiring, Yao Ming when he was a child drinking milk was a luxury, and his father specially entrusted someone to get a milk purchase card from a milk factory to meet Yao Ming's demand for milk.
Yao Ming also felt inferior because of his high body when he was a child, but because of his height, he was selected to enter a junior sports school to learn to play basketball. Yao Ming's academic performance has been good at first, and his parents did not want him to take a professional path, and the main purpose of learning to play basketball was to add points to his education. In 1993, 13-year-old Yao Ming's height soared to 196 centimeters, so he was selected for the youth team of the Shanghai Sharks Club, where training was very hard and Yao lost 4 pounds in the first month.
In 1998, Yao began representing Shanghai in the National Men's Basketball League A, finishing fifth that season and being selected to the All-Star Team.
During his five years in the CBA, Yao reached the Finals three times. The 2001-2002 season was Yao Ming's last season in the CBA, and it was also Yao's season of consecration. In the domestic arena, Yao Ming dominated both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, showing amazing dominance, and his various statistics have also reached the peak. This season, Yao averaged 32.4 points and 19 rebounds per game in the regular season and 41 points and 21 rebounds per game in the finals, shooting more than 70% from the field. Yao Ming not only helped Shanghai win the CBA championship, he also won the Finals MVP.
★ In the NBA, Yao became a gift from God
Yao was drafted by the Houston Rockets as a top pick in 2002 and spent his entire NBA career here until his retirement. Throughout his NBA career, Yao averaged 19 points, 9.2 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game.
On February 23 , 2004 , against the Hawks , Yao scored a career high of 41 points and seven assists in a single game in the NBA.
On March 11 , 2005 , against the Suns , Yao scored 22 NBA career-high rebounding stats.
American professional player Iverson once said: Yao Ming is a gift from God. Yao Ming played in the NBA for 8 seasons, entered the best team 5 times, was selected as an All-Star 8 times, and in the NBA arena with strong players, Yao Ming used his superb skills to have a place and become the pride of Chinese.
★ The love with Ye Li was ruthlessly rejected
Yao Ming's wife, Ye Li, who is 190 centimeters tall, once said: "When I am around him, I will look like a bird", which is Ye Li's true emotional confession to Yao Ming.
Ye Li was born in Shanghai in November 1981 and was the main center of the national women's basketball team. Ye Li has shown good basketball talent since she was a child, after training at the junior sports school, she was selected to the Shanghai Youth Women's Basketball Team at the age of 15, was selected into the National Youth Women's Basketball Team in 1998, and entered the National Women's Basketball Team coached by Gong Luming in 1999, and won the World University Games and Asian Championship championships with the team.
In 1996, in the basketball class of Shanghai Sports School, 16-year-old Yao Ming met Ye Li for the first time, Ye Li's tall figure, beautiful face and good temperament made Yao Ming fall in love with her at first sight. Later, the two entered the national basketball team one after another, and they had more opportunities to meet, but at first Ye Li did not show much affection for Yao Ming, because among the many suitors around Ye Li, Yao Ming had no other advantages except for his special height, and at that time, Yao Ming was fledgling, not famous, and was only a marginal player of the national team. In 1999, when Yao Ming dated Ye Li to go out to play, he was even ruthlessly rejected by Ye Li.
In order to pursue Ye Li, Yao Ming never gave up, and he did not boldly confess Ye Li, but just expressed his kindness to Ye Li in his clumsy way.
In order to secretly take a few more glances at Ye Li, Yao Ming once asked a newspaper reporter for extra photos of the women's basketball team. Every time he cooked, Yao Ming was always the first to run to the cafeteria and grab a window position, just to take a few more glances at the lover in his heart.
Because of the large consumption of exercise, Ye Li likes to eat sweets, Yao Ming ran to the supermarket to buy a box of Häagen-Dazs ice cream to send over, he will not say sweet words, handed the box to Ye Li and left, as a result, the ice cream was directly divided by the women's basketball girls.
Knowing that Ye Li liked to collect badges, during the 2000 Sydney Olympics, he exchanged badges with other team members whenever he had time, collecting more than 200 in total, and Yao Ming selected 50 of them and personally sent them to Ye Li. As for the remaining badges, Yao Ming was worried that if Ye Li did not agree, he would continue to give it to her. Seeing this, Ye Li was both surprised and moved, she knew that it was not easy to collect so many badges, so she had a concern for Yao Ming in Ye Li's heart.
Later, Ye Li was injured, Yao Ming was very concerned about her injury, in order to make Ye Li get the best treatment, when the treatment effect in China was not good, Yao Ming also sent Ye Li abroad for further treatment.
The effort pays off. Ye Li was finally touched by Yao Ming's many actions, and to have such a boy who was considerate of her, she felt that there was nothing she could not let go, and the two entered a period of love in 2001.
On Valentine's Day in 2002, Ye Li personally knitted two red ropes, one for each of the two, Yao Ming on his left hand and Ye Li on his right hand, the pair of red ropes is a token of their love and a witness of their careers. Since then, Yao Ming has treated the red rope as a treasure, and will wear it on his wrist for big and small competitions.
★ After marriage, Ye Li was once subjected to the "test of life and death"
Yao Ming said: "Meeting Ye Li is a gift from heaven."
Ye Li said: "My husband can impress me every moment."
During Ye Li's time in the national team, due to injury, she missed the 2006 World Championships and the 2007 Asian Games, so the 26-year-old Ye Li chose to retire, and also achieved her love with Yao Ming. They met as teenagers, Yao Ming chased hard and finally fell in love, and after 13 years of love tests, a lover finally became a dependent. On August 3, 2007, accompanied by relatives, the two went to Xuhui District of Shanghai to register their marriage, and on August 6, at the Shangri-La Hotel in Shanghai, Yao Ming and Ye Li held a low-key but warm wedding.
In 2010, their daughter Yao Qinlei was born in the United States, and her husband and son became Ye Li's main task. When Yao Qinlei was 12 years old, her height reached 180 cm. Before marriage, Yao Ming once said that in order to inherit China's basketball career, he planned to have 5 children, and many fans had a question, why didn't they have a second or third child?
Yao Ming is 226 cm tall and weighs more than 400 pounds, in view of Yao Ming's special figure, Ye Li and Yao Ming's wedding room furniture is specially customized by Ye Li looking for someone, but only the big bed is what she didn't expect, Ye Li only customized a big bed when they got married. In an interview, Ye Li once said that she was very afraid of being crushed to death by Yao Ming at night because she had undergone the "test of life and death." Once Yao Ming turned over and pressed Ye Li when he was sleeping, the weight of more than 400 pounds, so that Ye Li was almost breathless, fortunately, Yao Ming slept lightly, so as not to cause much consequences, under Ye Li's loud shout, Yao Ming woke up.
Ye Li then decided to customize two large beds, with a vacant one in between, so that Yao Ming would not suppress her at once and withstand the test of life and death again.
★11, become Yao Ming's lucky number
Yao Ming is very fond of Ye Li, and Ye Li is also impressed by Yao Ming's charm. Yao Ming's whole mind is on Ye Li, there has been no scandal between them for many years, and this kind of love is really very enviable.
The shirt worn by Yao Ming is No. 15 for the Shanghai team and No. 13 for the national team. But when he joined the Houston Rockets, he chose No. 11.
Yao Ming once said that the reason why he chose the No. 11 jersey was precisely because of Ye Li. What Yao Ming thought at the time was that the two 1's looked like the letter Y, one representing Yao Ming's "Yao" and the other representing Ye Li's "Ye". Another reason is that Ye Li wears No. 11 for both the Shanghai team and the national team. Today, Yao's No. 11 jersey has been retired and hangs high in the Houston Rockets' basketball arena.
Yao Ming, who was in the United States at the time, also bought a blue BMW car, and the license plate number was "YY-11", which means that Yao Ming Yeli will live his life.
On July 20, 2011, Yao Ming announced his official retirement at a press conference. In February 2017, Yao Ming was elected president of the Chinese Basketball Association, and at the end of 2022, Yao Ming was re-elected. In the development of China's basketball industry, Yao Ming is seeking breakthrough after breakthrough. (All pictures are from the Internet, invaded and deleted) # Record my 2O23##好内容我来评 from today #