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Sports InsiderYao Ming Takes Himself Off the Market by Getting Married.
August 7th 2007 04:06
The happy couple in Shanghai. (Photo from Xinhua)
Well, ladies, your hopes for snaring a tall, rich, athletic basketball player for a hubby just got a little harder with news that Yao Ming has tied the knot with his long time girlfriend, Ye Li. Actually, in terms of hooking up with a basketball player it’s quite easy, since they do have a history of fidelity to their partners (cough, cough), while having zero chance of Joey Greco ambushing them with the Cheaters crew outside a fast food joint (cough, cough).
The new Mrs Yao is an impressive 6 foot 2 basketball player on the women’s national team and we can be assuming that their future progeny will have their career paths already mapped out by the Chinese government. Hell, Yao and his new bride can expect to be parents to their offspring in name only.
Yao’s wedding was rather small for Chinese standards with only around 70 family and friends in attendance, with reporters outnumbering guests at 100.
In this day and age of celebrity couples selling their photographs, whilst posing on matching
(Photo from Shanghai Daily)
Ming told Houston television that he was a tad bit overawed by the prospect of marriage and but excited at the same time: “I don't how the U.S. culture thinks about marriage, but in China we know each other from 18-19 years old, maybe not too late in U.S. But it's pretty early in China…The first couple of years, we both don't let parents know. I have a lot of fun times. After so many years we have so many good memories together, we think this is the time right now. We can stay together forever and build a new family.” (AP, 2007)
I guess this means that the world can look forward to super Communist basketball playing babies in the not-too-distant future!
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