Dongbei giant headed for NBA

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Sun Mingming (孙明明) is a basketball player from Heilongjiang Province who is 7 foot 9 or 2.29 meters tall. The 21-year-old giant is currently in the USA, being groomed for the bigtime.

From North Carolina's News-Record.com:

Sun ... is training in Greensboro [North Carolina] for a shot at the NBA. His agent, Charles Bonsignore, paired the prospect up with former client and former professional basketball player Keith Gatlin. Gatlin, a managing partner with 334 Sports, a local firm that trains athletes, has worked with Sun for about five weeks.

The above image shows Sun Mingming standing next to a man who is 1.75 meters tall. The image was taken from Sports.cn

LINKS:
News-record.com: Nearly 7-foot-9 player from China training for NBA in Greensboro
Yahoo China: Second generation Yao Ming, only 19, has chance to tryout for NBA (in Chinese, with plenty of links to Xinhua-style girlie pictures)
Heilongjiang.northeast.cn: NBA scout discovers second generation Yao Ming: young giant to follow dreams in America (in Chinese)

Thanks to Tian for the tip.

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