Passage Two Yao Ming, the center of the Chinese National Men's Basketball Team,served the Houston Rockets in the 2002 NBA. The 2.26m, 120kg center becomes the first one to come from a foreign team. Yao Ming was born in Shanghai in September, 1980. His mother was a center and captain of the Chinese National Womens Team. His father played basketball, too. Yao Ming is widely known in China. He came to be a very important basketball player in China Basketball Association. It's short for CBA. During the 2000-2001 season, he got 27.1 scores and improved himself. Yao Ming joined the Houston Rockets in November, 2002. He said this was a new start in his basketball life. He would do his best to learn from the NBA and improve himself. Sports analyst(分析家) Bill Walton said,“ Yao Ming has the potential(潜力) and the capability(能力) of changing the future of basketball.”