Sun Mingming
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Sun Mingming (Template:Zh, born August 23, 1983) is a Chinese former professional basketball player. He was the tallest professional basketball player in the world and was measured by the Guinness World Records as Script error: No such module "convert". tall and weighing Script error: No such module "convert"..[1]
Early life
He was born in a small town near Bayan County, Harbin in Heilongjiang Province, China. He has two siblings: a brother and a sister.[2] He did not begin playing basketball until he was 15 years old.[3]
College career
Sun attended and played basketball at Ventura College, a community college in Ventura, CA. He played basketball there for only the 2005–2006 season, before moving on to play professional basketball.[4]
Basketball career
United States
Sun played with several American minor league teams, including the USBL team Dodge City Legend,[5] the ABA team Maryland Nighthawks,[6] and the IBL team Grand Rapids Flight. He was also drafted by the Harlem Globetrotters in 2007, being the tallest player in their history to be drafted by them, although he would never play for them.
Mexico and Japan
Later, Sun played in the Mexican league with Fuerza Regia[7] and in Japan's bj league with Hamamatsu Phoenix.
Return to China
In 2009, he returned to China to play for the Beijing Ducks in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).
Personal life
In the summer of 2005, Sun discovered that he had a benign tumor attached to his pituitary gland.[8] Because he had neither health insurance nor enough money to pay for the more than $100,000 in medical bills, his sports agent, Charles Bonsignore of Passing Lane Sports, started a fundraiser to raise the necessary money.[9] The tumor was successfully removed on September 26, 2005.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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Filmography
Film
| Year | English title | Original title | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Rush Hour 3 | Kung-Fu Giant | |
| 2016 | Funny Soccer | 笑林足球 | Dragon |
| 2017 | The Thousand Faces of Dunjia | 奇門遁甲 | Goldfinger |
TV series
| Year | English title | Chinese title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Singing All Along | 秀麗江山之長歌行 | Giant | |
| Candle in the Tomb | 鬼吹灯之精绝古城 | Honghou |
See also
References
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External links
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- An article about him in Al-Ahram Template:In lang
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- 1983 births
- 21st-century Chinese male actors
- Basketball players from Harbin
- Beijing Ducks players
- Centers (basketball)
- Chinese expatriate basketball people in the United States
- Chinese expatriate basketball people in Japan
- Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Mexico
- Chinese male film actors
- Chinese male television actors
- Chinese men's basketball players
- Expatriate basketball people in Mexico
- Fuerza Regia de Monterrey players
- Living people
- Male actors from Harbin
- Male actors from Heilongjiang
- People with acromegaly
- People with gigantism
- San-en NeoPhoenix players