Legendary basketballer to enter the next phase of his life in 2012

BEIJING - Basketball great Yao Ming summed up 2011 with the simple word "release".

"So many things happened in 2011. If I have to pick one (word to describe this year), it would be 'release', which could be understood as relax or relinquish," Yao said in his annual review published in the China News Weekly recently.