Florida is back in the Final Four, but the team's most interesting player doesn't even play consistently. That would be Olivier Rioux, a 7-foot-9 center who is currently the tallest player in ...

Yao Ming was a 7-foot-6 player in the NBA but never ... he is no taller than most big men in the NBA, standing at 7-foot-1. Rioux is the tallest college basketball player ever.

That doesn't mean height can't be an asset. It just means some of the NBA's tallest players now possess skills of much smaller players, making them more fascinating than ever. The NBA lists 39 ...

How Victor Wembanyama can join Yao Ming, Hakeem Olajuwon ... the personal and professional life of the retired NBA star Who is the tallest player ever to have played in the NBA?

History reveals that those supersized expectations placed on the game's tallest of giants are mostly unrealized. History thus suggests that Yao Ming will never be the franchise player he is ...

NBA star Yao Ming, architect Yoshio Taniguchi, and other dignitaries break ground for the Asia Society Texas Center on May 15, 2008. (Richard J. Carson/Asia Society) In the summer of 2002, when the ...