7'9" Player Joins ABA

[TexasTerror]

Wearing #79 and standing seven feet, nine inches, i s the latest import from China, Sun Ming Ming, who will play for the ABA's Maryland Nighthawks. That's one tall basketball player!


CHEVY CHASE, Md. — The "have size, will travel" basketball odyssey that's taken 7-foot-9, 370-pound Sun Ming Ming from China to California to Kansas to North Carolina made its latest stop today in the back room of a Chinese restaurant in this tony Washington, D.C., suburb.

That's where the Maryland Nighthawks of the American Basketball Association introduced their newest player, a man they're touting as the tallest in the history of professional basketball.

Sun donned a uniform with the number 79 — Get it? — and his new team's owner and coach and a teammate all gushed about his "basketball IQ" and "soft hands."

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/4515753.html

[th0m]

There's a town called Chevy Chase in Maryland?

[TexasTerror]

There's a town called Chevy Chase in Maryland?

There's even a bank...

http://www.chevychasebank.com/htm/

Only reason I know is because my future mother-in-law uses it and she took care of the TT and soon to be fiancee last week! :nod:

[blukeys]

There's a town called Chevy Chase in Maryland?

One of the richest zipcodes in the nation.

[SunCoastBlueHen]

That one tall Chinaman -

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2007/basketball/more/01/31/tallest.player.ap/p1.sun.jpg

[89Hen]

There's a town called Chevy Chase in Maryland?
I used to live on Chevy Chase Drive in Chevy Chase, MD. :nod:

[89Hen]

BTW, I have never in my life heard of the Maryland Nighthawks and they apparently play at a college that's 5 miles from my house. I may just have to go to the game Saturday night and check it out.

http://www.marylandnighthawks.com/graphics/dance_team_112706.jpg

[89Hen]

Hell, just looked at their roster and they even have a former Blue Hen (Andrew Washington) who is averaging 20 points a game! I've definitely got to go now, even if he did have to leave the Hens because of academics.

[lizrdgizrd]

BTW, I have never in my life heard of the Maryland Nighthawks and they apparently play at a college that's 5 miles from my house. I may just have to go to the game Saturday night and check it out.

That's 22 good reasons to go!

[HiHiYikas]

so sad...
:nonono2:

[89Hen]

Just a follow up. I did not make it to either game that Ming-Ming has played, but both were sell-outs (1800) and in his debut he had 8 points, 4 rebounds and 3 blocked shots in 20:46 of play. Not bad for a guy who struggles to move.

[OL FU]

Just a follow up. I did not make it to either game that Ming-Ming has played, but both were sell-outs (1800) and in his debut he had 8 points, 4 rebounds and 3 blocked shots in 20:46 of play. Not bad for a guy who struggles to move.

Probably hit him in the head after a jump shot:eyebrow: :o

[Peems]

Probably hit him in the head after a jump shot:eyebrow: :o
xlolx xlolx xlolx xlolx xlolx. it seems even though he is 7'9 he could lose twenty pounds. but what do i know about being tall? hell in NBA2k6 the tallest a guy can be is 7'6.

[NE MT GRIZZ]

Just a follow up. I did not make it to either game that Ming-Ming has played, but both were sell-outs (1800) and in his debut he had 8 points, 4 rebounds and 3 blocked shots in 20:46 of play. Not bad for a guy who struggles to move.


Any dunks?
If so did he jump?