{"id":104141,"date":"2024-10-30T14:05:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T18:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=104141"},"modified":"2024-10-30T14:05:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T18:05:30","slug":"rockets-legend-yao-ming-steps-down-cba-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/10\/30\/rockets-legend-yao-ming-steps-down-cba-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets Legend Yao Ming Steps Down As President"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Houston Rockets star Yao Ming<\/a> \u201chas quit as president of the Chinese Basketball Association, local media reported<\/a> on Wednesday\u201d (h\/t SCMP Sports)<\/p>\n

\u201cYao, who was elected to a second term as president in December 2022, previously resigned as CBA chairman in May last year, and rumours had been circulating for some time that he would cut ties with the governing body entirely sooner rather than later.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ming has yet to comment, so this report hasn\u2019t officially been confirmed. However, if true, there is merit to the decision and the fans\u2019 reaction.<\/p>\n

Rockets Legend Yao Ming Steps Down As President<\/h2>\n

Ming\u2019s decision appears to be predicated upon external pressure. The reports lamenting China\u2019s failures on the international stage certainly sticks out.<\/p>\n

China performs quite well in international tournaments as a whole (they have 728<\/em> medals in the Olympics all-time). Still, their men\u2019s national basketball team has failed to qualify for the last two Olympic Games. In 2016, they went 0-5, losing to the United States in embarrassing fashion along the way.<\/p>\n

Ming was named chairman in 2017, many thinking the Hall of Famer would take the program to the next level. However, since taking over, China has only qualified for the 2019 FIBA World Cup\u2014 an automatic qualification because they were the host country \u2014 and the 202: FIBA World Cup.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t medal in either of them.<\/p>\n

All of China\u2019s shortcomings can\u2019t be put on the giant\u2019s shoulders. It\u2019s become obvious that, on the global stage, there are several countries with a lot of talent. With more and better competition, it\u2019s that much harder for every team to win. Nonetheless, China isn\u2019t a team that\u2019s new to basketball, with a national team established in 1974.<\/p>\n

The Last Word On Yao Ming<\/h3>\n

Though Ming had an unsuccessful run as the president of the Chinese Basketball Association, it doesn\u2019t take away from his NBA career. An eight-time All-Star who helped the Rockets reach the playoffs four times<\/a>, he\u2019s the most successful Asian player in NBA history. More than that, he\u2019s been an inspiration for a country with 1.4 billion people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Houston Rockets star Yao Ming \u201chas quit as president of the Chinese Basketball Association, local media reported on Wednesday\u201d (h\/t SCMP Sports) \u201cYao, who was elected to a second term as president in December 2022, previously resigned as CBA chairman in May last year, and rumours had been circulating for some time that he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":104146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1608,62,3,60],"tags":[616,1200],"class_list":["post-104141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rockets","category-basketball","category-nba","category-news","category-olympics","tag-cba","tag-yao-ming"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}