19 jaw-dropping photos of Yao Ming that put his size into proper perspective
But instead of always standing around other tall basketball players, Ming spends a lot of time standing next to average-sized people and making them look small and even some other large athletes and making them look average-sized.
No matter whom Ming stands next to, people love the photos because it puts his size into a perspective we never truly grasped when he was an NBA player.
Below are some of our favorite post-retirement photos of Ming.