Chinese basketballer Sun Mingming arrived in Mexico on Tuesday
as the latest signing for Fuerza Regia, a team from the northern
Mexico city of Monterrey, Sergio Ganem, the team's owner told
Xinhua.
Sun, 2.36 meters high, is the world's tallest player, and will
join the Northern Zone National Professional Basketball League. His
new one-year contract makes him the first gigantic Asian player to
join a Mexican basketball team.
Sun had previously played in United States minor league team the
Grand Rapids Flight, but never managed to follow the footsteps of
compatriot Yao Ming, who plays for the Houston Rockets in the
National Basketball Association.
Sun will give a press conference on Wednesday in Monterrey,
which is 1,000 km north to Mexico's capital, Mexico City. Fuerza
Regia's manager, George Torres, took the team to the northern
league's semi-final in 2006. The Northern League has 20 teams from
14 of Mexico's 32 states.
The League's eighth season begins on Sept. 6, but teams begin
preparing a month earlier.
(Xinhua News Agency June 20, 2007)