There are too many international superstars in The Chinese basketball world, such as Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian have long become household names. Therefore, the status and influence of Chinese basketball in the world should not be underestimated.
Although there are many representative figures in Chinese basketball, it is obviously far from enough to really support Chinese basketball with only one or two superstars. Behind the superstar there are still a lot of role players silently paying. Today, the basketball player that Brother Spark talked to everyone about is a very special giant. He has a taller body than Yao Ming, but he has not entered the NBA, and even the CBA league is difficult to play the main force. However, the attention he received was not low. This basketball player is Sun Mingming.
Sun Mingming was born in 1983 in Bayan County, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, to the owner of a grocery store. Sun Mingming grew very quickly in height since he was a child, and his feet grew particularly large, so that the shoes he bought could not match the feet in time, and the toes appeared to bend. In 1998, Sun Mingming's height had grown to more than 2 meters, and Sun Mingming entered the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Team. Due to his growing height, this provided him with good innate conditions for taking the road of playing basketball in the future. In 2000, Sun Mingming successfully entered the Youth Team of Heilongjiang Province. Surprisingly, Sun Mingming's height is still growing wildly, and it is as high as 2.23 meters at this time.
In 2003, this year was a turning point in Sun Mingming's basketball career, and in February, Sun Mingming was successfully selected for the Chinese men's basketball Olympic Hope Team. The exciting news is that Sun Mingming has received the attention of the NBA on the other side of the ocean this year. You know, the NBA is the highest dream hall of basketball players around the world, and being favored by the NBA can be described as the greatest honor of a basketball player, which means more about the future of professional basketball players.
In fact, as early as when Sun Mingming went to Los Angeles with the Chinese junior team, he attracted the attention of NBA scouts. Later, many teams in the NBA also watched Sun Mingming's training, and these teams have no shortage of giants such as Lakers, Wizards, and Pacers. Although Sun Mingming's height is indeed surprising, basketball technology and physical confrontation have never been able to reach the level of playing the NBA.
In 2005, Sun Mingming's height was still increasing, and unfortunately, he was diagnosed with a pituitary tumor. This is an important reason for his crazy height. Helplessly, Sun Mingming successfully underwent surgery in Los Angeles, and Sun Mingming's height was always stuck at 2.36 meters. After that, Sun Mingming briefly joined the USBL League team and the Nighthawks of the ABA League, as well as a team in Mexico, and changed three teams in just 2006 and 2007.
In 2009, Sun Mingming joined the CBA Beijing Shougang team, although Sun Mingming is not an absolute main force, but in 2011 with the team won the championship. In recent years, Sun Mingming has received less and less news in the basketball world. On August 4, 2013, Sun Mingming married Xu Yan, who is also an athlete. Xu Yan is a handball player with a height of 1.87 meters. Sun Mingming and Xu Yan's height added up to a total of 4.23 meters, becoming the tallest couple in the world, and have surpassed Yao Ming and his wife.
It is worth the fans' attention that Sun Mingming, like Battle, has occasionally appeared in the entertainment industry thanks to his physical talent. In 2007, Sun Mingming participated in the movie "Rush Hour 3", in which he played a kung fu giant. After the release of this movie, Sun Mingming's performance was deeply loved by fans. In 2016, Sun Mingming participated in the suspenseful adventure drama "Ghost Blowing Lantern Essence of the Ancient City", in which he played the monster "Red Fox". This role is very cumbersome just to make up, but Sun Mingming cooperates well with the performance of the crew, and his acting skills are unanimously recognized by everyone.
Today's Sun Mingming has been far away from basketball, but his acting career has just started, and with his hard work on the basketball court, I believe that he can play a world in any profession.