China's Yao Ming has had a pretty decent go of things lately. He was officially enshrined into the Basketball Hall-of-Fame, earlier this month. He was also named to the board of directors at the Chinese Basketball Association, earlier this week, and now he is receiving another honour. The 7-foot-five giant will have his number retired by the Houston Rockets, the team he played his entire nine-year NBA career with. The team owner making the announcement.