Ye Li

Not to be confused with Li Ye.
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ye.
Ye Li
叶莉
Born (1981-11-20) November 20, 1981
Shanghai, China
Nationality Chinese
Other names The D
Occupation Basketball player
Height 6 ft 3 in (1.9 m)
Spouse(s) Yao Ming (m. 2007)
Children 1

Ye "The D" Li (simplified Chinese: 叶莉; traditional Chinese: 葉莉; pinyin: Yè Lì; born November 20, 1981) is a Chinese professional basketball player who played for the China women's national basketball team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[1]

Ye met Chinese basketball player Yao Ming at the age of seventeen in 1998.[2] They married on August 6, 2007.[3][4] Ye gave birth to their daughter Yao Qinlei (whose English name is Amy) in Houston, Texas on May 21, 2010.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Ye Li at sports-reference.com
  2. ↑ Bucher, Ric; Yao, Ming (2004). Yao: A Life in Two Worlds. Miramax Books. p. 237.
  3. ↑ Yao Ming to wed longtime girlfriend in Shanghai
  4. ↑ Brisbanetimes.com.au, Yao Ming nuptials set for August 5
  5. ↑ http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5209545 The 7-foot-6 Yao and his wife, Ye Li, had a baby girl on Friday at a Houston hospital, team spokesman Nelson Luis said. The couple, who married in August 2007, did not announce the baby's name. She weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces.
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