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{{Short description|Chinese basketball player (born 1981)}}
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| birth_place = [[Shanghai]], [[China]]
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'''Ye Li''' ({{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 Swordfish|Shanghai Octopus]] of the [[Women's Chinese Basketball Association]] and the [[China women's national basketball team]] at the [[Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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]],<ref>{{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}}</ref> where she met Chinese basketball player [[Yao Ming]] at the age of seventeen in 1998.<ref>{{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  }}</ref> They married on August 6, 2007.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Ye gave birth to their daughter Yao Qinlei (whose English name is Amy) in [[Houston, Texas]] on May 21, 2010.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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