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Sun Zhe (born August, 1990) is a 25-year-old basketball player from China, who has earned the nickname "Little Yao Ming", according to a source from CCTV, China's news channel. He stands 2.20m or 7'3" tall and weighs about 200 pounds in the year 2009. The trademarked nickname "Little Giant" no longer belongs with Yao Ming according to the Xinhua News Agency. According to Xinhua, "... Sun played his first Chinese top professional league game on January 2, 2008 when the Guangdong club player had two points, five rebounds and five fouls in his 17 minutes on court." According to the Taiwan News, he was not able to help his team win in the East Asian Games, though people already have big expectations for him. He is one of five co-players who is more than 7 feet tall on the Chinese National basketball team, which also includes Zhang Zhaoxu, Wang Zhizhi, Wang Zhelin, and Yi Jianlian. He currently plays for the Dongguan Leopards basketball club.