Who Is The Tallest Basket Ball Player? Bio: Age, Weight, Height, Net Worth and More
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The tallest basketball player is Sun Mingming.
Sun Mingming, is a Chinese former professional basketball player and actor.
Sun Mingming is the tallest professional basketball player in the world, and was measured by the Guinness World Records as 2.36m tall and weighing 167kg.
Sun Mingming Age
Sun Mingming was born on August 23, 1983 in in a small town near Bayan County, Harbin in Heilongjiang Province, China.
Sun Mingming Weight
Sun Mingming’s weight is 167kg.
Sun Mingming Height
Sun Mingming height is 2.36m.
Sun Mingming Family
Sun Mingming has two siblings: a brother and a sister.
Sun Mingming did not start playing basketball until he was 15 years old.
Sun Mingming Education
Sun Mingming attended and played basketball at Ventura College, a community college in Ventura, CA, where he played only the 2005–2006 season, before moving on to play professional basketball.
Sun Mingming Career
Sun Mingming 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.
Sun Mingming was drafted by the Harlem Globetrotters in 2007, being the tallest player in their history to be drafted by them, although he never featured for them.
Sun Mingming also played in the Mexican league with Fuerza Regia and in Japan’s bj league with Hamamatsu Phoenix.
In 2009, Sun Mingming returned to China to play for the Beijing Ducks in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and was part of the Ducks team that advanced to the 2012 CBA Finals.
Sun Mingming was also a part of the Ducks’ 2014 CBA Finals and 2015 CBA Finals championship winning teams.
Sun Mingming Wife
On 4 August 2013, Sun Mingming married Xu Yan.
Not so surprisingly, Sun Mingming’s wife is as tall as him and they are recognized by Guinness World Records as the tallest living married couple with a combined height of 4.23m (423.47 cm).
Sun Mingming Movies
| Year | English title | Original title | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Rush Hour 3 | Kung-Fu Giant | |
| 2016 | Funny Soccer | 笑林足球 | Dragon |
| 2017 | The Thousand Faces of Dunjia | 奇門遁甲 | Goldfinger |
Sun Mingming TV Shows
| Year | English title | Chinese title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Singing All Along | 秀麗江山之長歌行 | giant | |
| Candle in the Tomb | 鬼吹灯之精绝古城 | Honghou |
Sun Mingming Tumor
Sun Mingming discovered in the summer of 2005 that he had a benign tumor attached to his pituitary gland.
However, because he had neither health insurance nor enough money to pay for the more than $100,000 in medical bills, his sports agent, Avery Loi, did a fundraiser to raise the money needed to remove the tumor.
Sun Mingming’s tumor was successfully removed on September 26, 2005.
Sun Mingming Net Worth
Sun Mingming has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
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