He was nearly double the size of most Chinese babies at birth, largely in part due to his very tall, professional basketball playing parents both over 6 feet tall. In China, the average male is 5 feet 6 inches tall so he clearly surpassed that height at young age — 9 years old. Around that age he started playing basketball, and a few years later he was playing for the junior team in the Chinese Basketball Association.
He was the very first international player to be drafted in the NBA without playing any college basketball in the United States. He's tall. He makes other things and people look not so tall. Like Jon Daly :. I look like a Mini Me?!
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Larmer said Yao, China's first successful basketball export and its most famous face worldwide, was the product of a harsh and antiquated program which has changed little since it was set up more than 50 years ago under Mao Zedong. Larmer says Yao's birth had been anticipated for decades by communist officials - desperate to boost national pride through sports - who had been tracking his family for two generations.
He describes a system where doctors armed with special growth-predicting manuals measure youngsters' bones and pubic hair to identify future athletes. Weightlifters must be squat with strong torsos; divers need tiny hips to minimise splash; basketball players must simply be tall.
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