Yao Ming played 8 seasons (2003–2011) for HOU. Career regular-season line: 9,235 points, 4,485 rebounds and 768 assists. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 2005. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016.
Yao Ming
NBA Stats
Career Snapshot
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Peak 3Y VAL
12.1
2004, 2005, 2009 avg
Career VAL
74.9
Value Above League
Games
485
Points
9,235
Rebounds
4,485
Assists
768
Win Shares
70.1
Playoff VAL
24.0
postseason
International Stats
International Per Game — CBA statistics
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Shanghai | 21 | — | — | 61.5% | — | 48.5% | 8.3 | 1.3 | — | — | 10.0 |
| 1999 | Shanghai | 12 | — | — | 58.5% | — |
All-time standings
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 94.6th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
Franchise face
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Boards that rank NBA careers
NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VALNBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsNBA Career Arc TypesNBA Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesNBA Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the PlayoffsNBA Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeNBA Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustNBA Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleNBA Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsNBA Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamNBA Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (All Positions)
Similar careers
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Where this data comes from
Box scores, rosters, and draft data (2002+) come from sportsdataverse's hoopR release. College, international, and pre-2002 per-game rows are backfilled additively from Wikipedia.
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