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Position
  
NBA draft
  
2005 / Undrafted

Height
  
2.36 m

Nationality
  
Chinese

Pro career
  
2006–present

Weight
  
168 kg


Listed height
  
7 ft 9 in (2.36 m)

Name
  
Sun Mingming

Career start
  
2006

Listed weight
  
370 lb (168 kg)

Role
  
Basketball Player

Spouse
  
Xu Yan (m. 2013)

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Born
  
August 23, 1983 (age 40) Bayan County, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China (
1983-08-23
)

Movies
  
Rush Hour 3, Rise of an Exile

Similar People
  
Gheorghe Muresan, Ye Li, Yao Ming, Manute Bol, Kenny George

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Sun Mingming (Chinese: 孙明明; pinyin: Sūn Míngmíng, born August 23, 1983) is a Chinese professional basketball player and actor. He is currently the tallest professional basketball player in the world, and was measured by the Guinness World Records as 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m) tall.

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Early life

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He was born in a small town near in Bayan County, Harbin in Heilongjiang Province, China. He has two siblings: a brother and a sister. He did not start playing basketball until he was 15 years old.

College career

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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.

In the US

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Sun played with several American minor league teams, including the USBL team Dodge City Legend, the ABA team Maryland Nighthawks, and the IBL team Grand Rapids Flight.

In Mexico and Japan

Later Sun played in the Mexican league with Fuerza Regia 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) Sun later become a member of the 2012 CBA Finals and 2014 CBA Finals championship winning teams.

Personal life

In the summer of 2005, Sun discovered that he had a benign tumor attached to his pituitary gland. 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, started a fundraiser to raise the necessary money. The tumor was successfully removed on September 26, 2005.

On 4 August, 2013, he married Xu Yan. They are recognized by Guinness World Records as the tallest living married couple with their combined height of 13 ft 10.72 in (423.47 cm).

References

Sun Mingming Wikipedia