{"id":7736,"date":"2009-05-28T21:02:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T01:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=7736"},"modified":"2009-05-28T21:02:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T01:02:11","slug":"china%e2%80%99s-sun-shining-in-japanese-basketball-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=7736","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Sun shining in Japanese basketball league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"8\" class=\"left\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sun.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/news?slug=ap-sunshining&#038;prov=ap&#038;type=lgns\">Sun Mingming<\/a> is a little man that measures only 7&#8217;9&#8221; short.<br \/>\nNot sure it&#8217;s good for the basketball game: fineness vs freak show.<br \/>\nI think people would like to see a normal man to compete, not <em>overly gifted<\/em>.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=5889\">Avery rule<\/a> shows the same sentiment.  What&#8217;s fair is fair.  Human couldn&#8217;t go against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=3087\">the Neanderthal<\/a>! <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>..<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s surreal,\u201d says 6-foot-8 forward Lynn Washington, a two-time MVP in Japan. \u201cYou can\u2019t really do much because he\u2019s so big. He just holds the ball up in the air and it looks like a tennis ball.\u201d<br \/>\n..<br \/>\nSun\u2019s resume even includes an appearance in the 2007 comedy Rush Hour 3 with Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan. After appearing in the fight scene, he said he\u2019s more interested in basketball than Hollywood.<br \/>\n..\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun Mingming is a little man that measures only 7&#8217;9&#8221; short. Not sure it&#8217;s good for the basketball game: fineness vs freak show. I think people would like to see a normal man to compete, not overly gifted. The Avery rule shows the same sentiment. What&#8217;s fair is fair. Human couldn&#8217;t go against the Neanderthal! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}