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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). [1]
Yao Ming (Chinese: 姚明; born September 12, 1980) is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Tallest basketball player in Russia. [119] born 1988 Bienvenu Letuni Democratic Republic of the Congo: 228 cm: 7 ft 5.8 in: Tallest basketball player in DRC. [120] 1994–2022 [121] Eugeniusz Taraciński Poland: 228 cm: 7 ft 5.8 in: Tallest man in Poland while he was alive. [122] 1928–1978 (50) Asdrúbal Herrera Mora Colombia: 228 cm: 7 ft 5.8 in
Standing taller than any WNBA player ever, she’s been called a “cheat code” and “unguardable” by social media users and compared to Yao Ming, China’s retired 7-foot-6 basketball legend ...
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 ...
HONG KONG — In China, she’s being called the “female Yao Ming.”. In a video that quickly went viral this week, Zhang Ziyu, a 7-foot-3 basketball player from Shandong province, can be seen ...
This is a list of the tallest players in National Basketball Association history. It is currently topped by the 7-foot-7-inch (2.31 m) Romanian Gheorghe Mureșan, taken by the Washington Bullets as the number 30 overall pick in the 1993 NBA draft. [1] As of 2024, twenty-eight players have been listed at 7 feet 3 inches (2.21 m) or taller.
In her rookie season, she was the tallest player in the league and the second-tallest player in league history, behind Margo Dydek. She drew comparisons to male Chinese international basketball player Yao Ming. [6] [5] In May 2020, it was announced that Han would sit out the 2020 WNBA season to remain in China due to the coronavirus pandemic ...