Ye Li

{{Short description|Chinese basketball player (born 1981)}}

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叶莉

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| birth_place = Shanghai, China

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Ye Li ({{lang-zh|s=叶莉|t=葉莉|p=Yè Lì}}; born November 20, 1981) is a Chinese professional basketball player who played for the Shanghai Octopus of the Women's Chinese Basketball Association and the China women's national basketball team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ye/ye-li-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418121238/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ye/ye-li-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-18|title=Ye Li Bio, Stats, and Results|website=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|access-date=2016-05-23}} She also won a gold medal as part of the Chinese women's basketball team at the 2003 Summer Universiade.

Born in Shanghai, Ye Li attended the University of Houston,{{Cite web |last=Estudillo |first=Itiel |date=2022-12-08 |title=Who is Yao Ming's wife Ye Li? Taking a closer look at personal and professional life of Ye Li |url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketball/news-who-yao-ming-s-wife-ye-li-taking-closer-look-personal-professional-life-of-ye-li |access-date=2023-11-13 |website=www.sportskeeda.com |language=en-us}} where she met Chinese basketball player Yao Ming at the age of seventeen in 1998.{{cite book | author-link = Ric Bucher | author-link2 = Yao Ming | last = Bucher | first = Ric | last2 = Yao | first2 = Ming | title = Yao: A Life in Two Worlds | publisher = Miramax Books | year = 2004 | page = [https://archive.org/details/yao00yaom/page/237 237] | url =https://archive.org/details/yao00yaom| url-access = registration }} They married on August 6, 2007.{{Cite web|url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5029484.html|title=Yao and Ye's wedding unites East and West|last=Zheng|first=Zen T.C.|last2=Guy Jr|first2=Andrew|date=2007-08-07|website=Houston Chronicle|access-date=2016-05-23}} Ye gave birth to their daughter Yao Qinlei (whose English name is Amy) in Houston, Texas on May 21, 2010.{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=5209545|title=Yao 'very excited' about arrival of new baby|date=2010-05-22|website=ESPN.com|access-date=2016-05-23}}