If you are a fan of the NBA, you must know who Yao Ming really is. He is one of the professional basketball players from China featuring Shanghai Sharks and Houston Rockets. Starting a career in the year 1997, he became one of the most popular players by 2005. Solely from his playing career, he made it possible to increase his net worth from mere thousands to the millions.

In this column, we will be discussing Yao Ming net worth and salary, along with his career and awards till date!

Yao Ming Net Worth and Salary

Ming is the player who retired in the year 2011. He is also the tallest known player in NBA. The one, who earned much of fame and dime through playing career, was successful enough to build his net worth in three figure millions.

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His estimated net worth is around $120 million. Since he already retired, his net worth might not increase in the future. 

Yao Ming height
Yao Ming height

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His net worth includes the amount he got after selling his Houston house, which covers the area of 12000 square feet. As mentioned by Realtor, this house was priced at $3.99 million back in 2011.

Yao is not a free man, not in the sense that someone dominates him; but in the sense that his tallness never lets him do as he wants. Especially in buying luxurious and lavishing vehicles, he finds it very uncomfortable. Back in 2007, he was highly influenced by BMW 7-series car, which he bought but was not fit for him.

Yao Ming Car
Yao Ming Car

Later, he hired car specialist to redesign that car and make it more spacious inside. But the car’s designation was such that it was next to impossible.

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Yao Ming still has maintained a massive net worth of $120 million as of 2022. 

Yao Ming’s Career as Basketball Player

Yao’s height is the thing that helped in building his career stronger. He used to play at school and also for high school team before moving to NBA. He played for the team Shanghai Sharks for around four years. Then, Houston Rockets selected him in the year 2002.

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Playing for Houston, he was able to go off NBA Playoffs 4 times. The team won the season in the year 2009, which was first since the year 1997.

As a player for the national team of China, Yao appeared in Olympics in the years 2000, 2004 and in 2008. In his entire match, Ming defined a goal and reached the goal of winning three Asian Championship gold medals.