Professional athletes are involved in a cutthroat business.

Don't you all feel like something was stolen from you.

Like that scene with the awesome Regina Spektor song in 500 Days of Summer.

Well, Yao Ming's career is officially over.

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Taiwain's storied Next Media Animation has commemorated the retirement of Yao Ming by putting together a short film about his life and career, as interpreted by a person on so many drugs their brain is about to explode.

Yesterday, one door officially closed while another one opened.

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Looks like Iggy recently had a change of heart.

While we might've seen this coming - the end of the road for Yao Ming - we weren't ready for it just yet.

Imagine this: Amar'e Stoudemire putting up elbow jumpers in the Holy Land.

The pickings just keep getting smaller.

The second giant is now gone.

According to reports, Yao Ming will be retiring from the Houston Rockets and ending his NBA career at age 30.

YAO's IMPACT ON THE NBA: During the past eight seasons, dozens of Chinese media members covering the Houston Rockets have swarmed into the depths of every NBA arena, outnumbering the beat writers, magazine journalists and national pundits.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo.

Right after the Rockets hired Kevin McHale as their new head coach, he made one thing clear: Houston had to get big.

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Her name's Amy and she's just one year old.

For his first and only Dime cover story in Dime #38 (December 2007/January 2008), we wanted to get Shaquille O'Neal's take on his legacy, the new crop of NBA big men waiting in the wings and some of the most pressing issues facing the League, and basketball in general, at the time.