What is the height of the Chinese professional basketball player drafted by the Houston Rockets in 2002?
2.29 m
Title: Mike D'Antoni
Passage: Michael Andrew D'Antoni (born May 8, 1951) is an American-Italian professional basketball coach who was formerly a professional basketball player.  He is currently the head coach of the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).  While head coach of the NBA's Phoenix Suns, he won NBA Coach of the Year honors for the 2004–05 NBA season after the Suns posted 33 more wins than the previous season.  He coached the New York Knicks starting in 2008 before resigning in 2012.  He was hired by the Lakers after seven games into the 2012–13 season.  D'Antoni, who holds American and Italian dual citizenship, is known for favoring a fast-paced, offense-oriented system.  On June 1, 2016, D'Antoni was named as the new head coach for the Houston Rockets.
Title: Kenny Smith
Passage: Kenneth "Kenny" Smith (born March 8, 1965) is an American retired professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA).  He played in the NBA from 1987 to 1997 as a member of the Sacramento Kings, Atlanta Hawks, Houston Rockets, Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, and Denver Nuggets.  Nicknamed "The Jet", Smith was an All-American at the University of North Carolina and a two-time NBA Champion with the Houston Rockets.  Smith is currently a basketball analyst, and has won several Emmys for his work on "Inside the NBA" on TNT.  He also works as an analyst for CBS/Turner during the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.
Title: Matt Bullard
Passage: Matthew Gordon Bullard (born June 5, 1967) is an American former professional basketball player in the NBA and current color analyst for the Houston Rockets on Root Sports Southwest.  Bullard played 12 years professionally and 11 years in the NBA, most notably with the Houston Rockets from 1990 to 1994, and then again from 1996 to 2001.  Other teams he played for include the Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Hornets, and PAOK in Greece.
Title: Zhou Qi
Passage: Zhou Qi (, pronounced , ; born January 16, 1996) is a Chinese professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).  He previously spent his professional career with the Xinjiang Flying Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association.
Title: Calvin Murphy
Passage: Calvin Jerome Murphy (born May 9, 1948) is an American retired professional basketball player who played as a guard for the NBA's San Diego/Houston Rockets from 1970 to 1983, and is a current member of the Houston Rockets' Root Sports TV broadcast team.  Standing at a height of 5 ft , Murphy has the distinction of being the shortest NBA player inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, and to play in an NBA All-Star Game (the latter since tied by Isaiah Thomas in 2016).
Title: Yao Ming
Passage: Yao Ming (; born September 12, 1980) is a retired Chinese professional basketball player who played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).  He was selected to start for the Western Conference in the NBA All-Star Game eight times, and was named to the All-NBA Team five times.  At the time of his final season, he was the tallest active player in the NBA, at 2.29 m .  He is the only player outside of the United States to lead the NBA in All-Star voting.
Title: Eric Riley
Passage: Eric Riley (born June 2, 1970) is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Dallas Mavericks in the second round (33rd pick overall) of the 1993 NBA draft.  Riley played for the Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Clippers, Minnesota Timberwolves and Boston Celtics in five NBA seasons, averaging 3.1 points per game.  He was an injured reserve member of the 1993–94 Houston Rockets who won the NBA championship.
Title: Houston Rockets
Passage: The Houston Rockets are an American professional basketball team based in Houston, Texas.  The Rockets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as a member of the league's Western Conference Southwest Division.  The team plays its home games at the Toyota Center, located in downtown Houston.  The Rockets have won two NBA championships and four Western Conference titles.  The team was established as the San Diego Rockets, an expansion team originally based in San Diego, in 1967.  In 1971, the Rockets moved to Houston.
Title: Demetrius Jackson
Passage: Demetrius Jackson Jr. (born September 7, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Rockets' NBA G League affiliate, the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.  He played three seasons of college basketball for the University of Notre Dame before being drafted 45th overall by the Celtics in the 2016 NBA draft.
Title: Houston Rockets all-time roster
Passage: The Houston Rockets are an American professional basketball team based in Houston, Texas.  The team plays in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in National Basketball Association (NBA).  The team was established in 1967, and played in San Diego, California for four years before being moved to Houston.  In the Rockets debut season, they won only 15 games.  However, after drafting Elvin Hayes first overall in the 1969 NBA Draft, they made their first appearance in the playoffs in 1969.  After Hayes was traded, Moses Malone was acquired to replace him.  Malone won two MVPs during his time in Houston, and he led the Rockets to the conference finals in his first year with the team.  He also took the Rockets to the NBA Finals in 1981, but they were defeated in six games by the Boston Celtics.  In 1984, the Rockets drafted Hakeem Olajuwon, who led them to the 1986 Finals in his second year, where they lost again to Boston.  In the next seven seasons, they lost in the first round of the playoffs five times.  They won their first NBA championship in 1994, led by Olajuwon, who won Finals MVP.  They repeated as champions the next year, and Olajuwon won Finals MVP once again.  To date, the Rockets have not advanced to the finals again.  The Rockets missed the playoffs from 1999–2003, and did not make the playoffs again until after they drafted Yao Ming in 2002.  Since then, the Rockets have had a winning season in all but two of the next 14 seasons and, led by James Harden, advanced to the conference finals in 2015.
Yao Ming Houston Rockets all-time roster