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Zinho

31-may-2005, 04:44

jeje. Antes de comenzar no mide 8 pies, pero le faltan poquito.
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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 (http://news.sports.cn/basketball/other/2005-05-13/561273.html)

Zinho

31-may-2005, 04:45

Nearly 7-foot-9 player from China training for NBA in Greensboro

4-13-05

By Kellie Dixon, Staff Writer
News & Record

GREENSBORO — The hoop hangs within arm's reach of Sun Ming Ming.

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Sun Ming Ming, whose head measures above most door frames, follows Keith Gatlin into Fitness by Design for a late morning workout. (Joseph Rodriguez/©News & Record (http://www.news-record.com/communicate/copyright.html))

The 7-foot-8 3/4 center positions himself under the basket and awaits a pass from trainer Keith Gatlin.

Ball in hand, Sun, 21, muscles his 350-pound frame into training partner Dshamal Schoetz, a 7-footer who played at Greensboro College who is nearly nine inches shorter. Sun pivots and places the ball firmly into the hoop. Swish.

Sun, who is from Harbin, China, is training in Greensboro 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.

"With his size, that intrigues everybody," Gatlin said. "He can really shoot the ball to be that size. The challenge for him now is to get mobile, to get up and down the court."

Sun also can handle the ball and has a sweet outside shot that swishes with the quick flick of his wrist. When it comes to dunking, he doesn't need to leave the ground.

Basketball, Gatlin will tell you, is not Sun's problem.

Sun's weakness is his flexibility and his lack of weight training. While playing for the Junior Olympic team and then Da Qing, his province's club squad, Sun never lifted weights and is just now building upper-body strength.

Trainer James Wilson, who coaches track and field at High Point University, has worked with Sun on his mobility for about five weeks.

During the first workout, the color drained from Sun's face, and he tired easily. Now Sun completes the workouts. His flexibility has improved to where he can lift his knees higher, and he gets up and down the court smoother.

Wilson said Sun is young in terms of his training years.

"I treat him like he is a high school senior lifting weights," Wilson said. "You build from that. ... There's a progression that you need to go. You can't just go everyday hard, hard, hard. It just doesn't work like that."

Sometimes the language barrier can be a problem, Wilson said, because Sun is mentally tough and wants to complete the workouts. An "OK" from Sun isn't always good enough for Wilson, who looks for other signs. Is he wincing? Is there color in his face?

"You push a person, but you don't want to push a person where they get injured, and that happens with a lot athletes with a lot of willpower," Wilson said. "It's better to undertrain than overtrain."

The risk of injury is too great, especially with NBA teams already asking about Sun. The possibility of making the NBA thrills Sun, who is happily working toward his future.

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Sun's grasp on a basketball resembles most people holding a softball. (Joseph Rodriguez/©News & Record (http://www.news-record.com/communicate/copyright.html))

"I have more opportunities here," Sun said through interpreter Hsiao-Yin Chu. "I have the opportunity to play with the best players in the world and get into good basketball."

Bonsignore saw the raw potential while watching Sun play for the Junior Olympic team in China and again when he played for Da Qing.

"More than anything I saw his size," Bonsignore said. "I just thought it was a complete waste of a kid's life: That he's so big, and they don't have the resources to train him."

That's why Bonsignore asked Gatlin to train Sun. Gatlin spent eight years playing professional ball in Europe, so he understands what it's like to adjust to a new culture.

"Keith believes in basically the old style of basketball fundamentals," Bonsignore said. "With his personality and demeanor, I knew he'd make Sun comfortable."

Since arriving in North Carolina in early March, Sun has become more comfortable with his surroundings, particularly around his support team and host family Rocky and Celeste Manning, friends of Gatlin's.

During the week, Sun climbs into the back seat of Gatlin's SUV and rides to the Greensboro Sportsplex or Fitness by Design. His days are devoted to basketball, but he spends the evenings lounging around the Manning's house in Summerfield. He is another member of the Manning family whether he's cooking on the grill, driving the golf cart or writing in his journal.

The Mannings don't speak Chinese, but sign language does the trick.

"He's been great," Rocky Manning said. "He totally changed from when he first came here. He didn't seem that happy, but now he smiles and laughs and knows a couple hundred words in English. He's a very smart guy."

Sun will stay in Greensboro until May when he'll return to China for 45 days to play in the national games with his club team. He is expected to return in June for the NBA Draft, but Bonsignore isn't interested in hyping Sun's situation because it could create unfair comparisons to recent China product Yao Ming.

If Sun is drafted in June, Bonsignore hopes he'll be picked by a team willing to develop Sun's skills.

If he's not drafted, he will become a free agent, and Bonsignore said they will consider taking next year to continue building his skills.

"If a team doesn't show that they are willing to be patient," Bonsignore said, "we'll just wait and show him when he's ready."

Zinho

31-may-2005, 04:53

Para los que no están muy diestros con las medidas en pies y pulgadas, este jugador mide 2 metros con 35 centímetros apróximadamente. :196:

La altura del aro de baloncesto es de 10 pies (3 metros y 5 centimetros aprox.). Sí le sumanos la altura de este chino con los brazos levantados, él tocaría de manera sobrada el aro estándo parado.

Me gustaría verlo jugar en la próxima temporada. Va ser tremendo espectáculo. :yup:

Zinho

01-jun-2005, 02:26

¿Un rascacielos en la NBA?

Sun Mingming, un jugador de básquetbol de origen chino de 22 años y una altura de 7'8 pies, espera ser pívot de la NBA pronto

HONG KONG (AP) -- Un jugador de básquetbol de origen chino de 7'8 pies espera seguir los pases del pívot de los Houston Rockets; Yao Ming. Sun Mingming, dos pulgadas más alto que Yao, asistió a un campamento de entrenamiento en los Estados Unidos y espera ser elegido en el draft de la NBA el mes próximo, según reportó en South China Morning Post el sábado.

Si Sun, con 22 años de edad, es firmado para un equipo de la NBA, se transformaría en el jugador más alto en la historia de la NBA.
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Gheorghe Muresan y Manute Bol, con una altura de 7'7, son los jugadores más altos en la historia de la NBA.

El ex jugador de la NBA; Keith Gatlin, un entrenador que ha trabajado con Sun, le dijo al diario que el chino es un prospecto con 70 por ciento de posibilidades de ser lanzador pero que necesita trabajar su agilidad.

"Realmente no se eleva mucho y es algo que estamos intentando mejorar", dijo Gatlin.

De todas maneras, Gatlin aclaró que debido a la altura de Sun "lo único que debe hacer es levantar los brazos para llegar al aro y bloquearlo".

Strangiato

01-jun-2005, 03:36

http://www.news-record.com/graphics/april/basketball_041305.jpg

Imagínate esas manos ahorcando a algún pobre individuo...! :yikes: :yikes:
:wtf:

Zinho

11-jul-2005, 02:29

http://www.news-record.com/graphics/april/basketball_041305.jpg

Imagínate esas manos ahorcando a algún pobre individuo...! :yikes: :yikes:
:wtf:
Es bueno hacerse pasiero de alguien así, para cuando alguien te está jod....endo llamas a tu pasiero para que le saq.. %$&"$·%&%&%&$ :D

Grillo

14-jul-2005, 06:22

Zinho

14-jul-2005, 08:59

Yo no se de donde salio este man porque yo cuando fui a china todos me llegaron un poquito mas arriba de la cintura .. y eso que yo soy un man pequeno 5'9...

http://www.news-record.com/graphics/april/basketball_041305.jpg

Imagínate esas manos ahorcando a algún pobre individuo...! :yikes: :yikes:
:wtf: Es bueno hacerse pasiero de alguien así, para cuando alguien te está jod....endo llamas a tu pasiero para que le saq.. %$&"$·%&%&%&$ :D
En un artículo que leí, salió que ese tipo tiene una alimentación a base de hormigas, cucarachas y grillos.
Voy a tener que recordar mi infancia y buscar cuanto bicho encuentre para ver sí crezco un poco. :redface:

Grillo

14-jul-2005, 09:30

YYY GRILLOS??? Chuleta man , ya no voy mas por alla porque si no me comen!! :yikes:

Yo no se de donde salio este man porque yo cuando fui a china todos me llegaron un poquito mas arriba de la cintura .. y eso que yo soy un man pequeno 5'9...

http://www.news-record.com/graphics/april/basketball_041305.jpg

Imagínate esas manos ahorcando a algún pobre individuo...! :yikes: :yikes:
:wtf: Es bueno hacerse pasiero de alguien así, para cuando alguien te está jod....endo llamas a tu pasiero para que le saq.. %$&"$·%&%&%&$ :D
En un artículo que leí, salió que ese tipo tiene una alimentación a base de hormigas, cucarachas y grillos.
Voy a tener que recordar mi infancia y buscar cuanto bicho encuentre para ver sí crezco un poco. :redface:

Zinho

14-jul-2005, 09:46

jajaja :)

Mentira pana, pero quien sabe. :34:

Grillo

14-jul-2005, 09:50

hahaha .. pero deverad lo que si comen es sapo ... venden los sapos en cartuchos de a cinco ... cinco por un dollar hahah derepente hay donde sacan la proteina!!

jajaja :)

Mentira pana, pero quien sabe. :34: