Question: The Year of the Yao is a 2004 American documentary film telling the first year of basketball player Yao Ming, 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), in which country?

Context articles: Jimmer Fredette
Sun Zhe
Yao Ming
Delonte West
Liu Yudong
The Year of the Yao
Houston Rockets all-time roster
Xu Yong (basketball)
Wang Zhizhi
Zhou Qi

James Taft "Jimmer" Fredette (born February 25, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).
 Fredette was the 2011 National Player of the Year in college basketball, ranking as the leading scorer in all of NCAA Division I during his senior season for the BYU Cougars.
 He was subsequently selected with the tenth overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft, but only played limited minutes across four different teams over five NBA seasons.
 He spent the majority of the 2015–16 season in the NBA Development League, during which he won the All-Star Game MVP.
 In 2016, he joined the CBA's Shanghai Sharks, and during the 2016–17 CBA season, he led the league in scoring, at 37.6 points per game, counting all phases of the season, and won the CBA Import-MVP award.
Sun Zhe (born August, 1990) is a 25-year-old basketball player from China, who has earned the nickname "Little Yao Ming", according to a source from CCTV, China's news channel.
 He stands 2.20m or 7'3" tall and weighs about 200 pounds in the year 2009.
 The trademarked nickname "Little Giant" no longer belongs with Yao Ming according to the Xinhua News Agency.
 According to Xinhua, "... Sun played his first Chinese top professional league game on January 2, 2008 when the Guangdong club player had two points, five rebounds and five fouls in his 17 minutes on court."
 According to the Taiwan News, he was not able to help his team win in the East Asian Games, though people already have big expectations for him.
 He is one of five co-players who is more than 7 feet tall on the Chinese National basketball team, which also includes Zhang Zhaoxu, Wang Zhizhi, Wang Zhelin, and Yi Jianlian.
 He currently plays for the Dongguan Leopards basketball club.
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.
Delonte Maurice West (born July 26, 1983) is an American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Boston Celtics, Seattle SuperSonics, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Dallas Mavericks.
 He also played professionally for the Fujian Xunxing and Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association and the Texas Legends of the NBA Development League.
 Prior to playing professionally, West played college basketball for Saint Joseph's University.
Liu Yudong (; nickname： "War God (战神 )"; b. 1970 in Putian, Fujian), is a retired Chinese professional basketball player who last played for the Fujian Xunxing club in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).
 At 1.98 m (6'6") and 243 lbs.
 (110 kg), he played at the power forward position.
 He held the CBA record for most career points scored (8,387 points in 387 games), until it was broken by Zhu Fangyu, on 1/1/2012.
 He was the CBA MVP in 2002, and the CBA Finals MVP in 2001 and 2003.
The Year of the Yao is a 2004 American documentary film telling the first year of basketball player Yao Ming in the United States.
 The film is narrated by his friend and former interpreter Colin Pine, who stayed with Yao during Yao's rookie year, and interpreted for him for three years.
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.
Xu Yong (; born March 30, 1989) is a former Chinese professional basketball player born in Shanghai, China.
 He last played for the Shanghai Dongfang Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association.
 Xu Yong was often considered as one of Chinas major basketball talents, third only to Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian.
 After several dominating performances in the Chinese Basketball Association, Xu had to end his basketball career at age 19 after being diagnosed with osteosarcoma.
Wang Zhizhi (, pronounced ; born July 8, 1977) is a retired Chinese professional basketball player who most recently played for Bayi Rockets in the Chinese Basketball Association.
 He also played in the National Basketball Association for the Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Clippers, and Miami Heat.
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.