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Sun Mingming (Chinese: 孙明明; pinyin: Sūn Míngmíng, 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 2.36 m (7 ft 9 in) tall and weighing 168 kg (370 lb).
He is the only child of 6-foot-7-inch (2.01 m) Yao Zhiyuan and 6-foot-3-inch (1.91 m) Fang Fengdi, [14] both of whom were former professional basketball players. [15] At 11 pounds (5.0 kg), Yao weighed more than twice as much as the average Chinese newborn. [ 16 ]
Ri Myung-hun (Korean: 리명훈; born 14 September 1967), also known as Michael Ri after his favorite basketball player Michael Jordan, [1] is a North Korean former basketball player. At a height of 235 cm (7 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) and a weight of 128 kg (282 lb), he is believed to be the tallest person in North Korea [broken anchor].
Zhang, whose parents both played professional basketball in China, was 5 feet 2 inches tall in the first grade, according to Chinese state media. By sixth grade, she had reached 6 foot 9.
Yao, Ralph Sampson and Arvydas Sabonis are the only players 7 feet 3 inches or taller selected to the Hall of Fame. Yasutaka Okayama, a 7-foot-8-inch (2.34 m) Japanese basketball player picked 171st overall in the seventh round of the 1981 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors, is the tallest player to ever be drafted for the NBA. [2]
Zhang Ziyu (Chinese: 张子宇; pinyin: Zhāng Zǐyǔ, born 1 May 2007) is a Chinese basketball player. She is known for her height; sources vary from 220 to 226 centimetres (7 ft 3 in to 7 ft 5 in). She was named the most valuable player of the 2024 FIBA Under-18 Women's Asia Cup.
Mu was one of the first Chinese giants who appeared in the China men's national basketball team. He played for the national basketball team for 14 years. As a member of Bayi Basketball Team, Mu still held the highest score of 81 points in a game, and played against the 1978 NBA champion Washington Bullets twice in August, 1979. Mu retired as a ...
[2] [3] At 7 ft 8 in (2.34 m), he is the tallest player to be drafted in National Basketball Association (NBA) history. Okayama was the only player from Japan drafted in the NBA until Rui Hachimura was selected in the 2019 NBA draft. Okayama practiced judo at junior high school and high school, and obtained a second degree black belt.