Sun Mingming

Mingming Sun (simplified Chinese: 孙明明; traditional Chinese: 孫明明; pinyin: Sūn Míngmíng, born August 23, 1983) is a Chinese professional basketball player. Sun wears size 20 shoes and makes occasional appearances as an actor. He is also currently the tallest professional basketball player in the world.
Sun was measured by the Guinness World Records and stands at 7 feet and 9 inches. Sun also weighs at 325 lbs.

He was born in a small town near in Bayan County, Harbin in Heilongjiang Province, China. He has two siblings: a brother and a sister. He did not start playing basketball until he was 15 years old.

Sun attended and played basketball at Ventura College, a community college in Ventura, CA. He played basketball there for only the 2005-2006 season, before moving on to play professional basketball.

In the US

Sun 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.

In Mexico and Japan

Later Sun played in the Mexican league with Fuerza Regia and in Japan's bj league with Hamamatsu Phoenix.

Return to China

In 2009 he returned to China to play for the Beijing Ducks in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) Sun later become a member of the 2012 CBA Finals and 2014 CBA Finals championship winning teams.

In the summer of 2005, Sun discovered that he had a benign tumor attached to his pituitary gland. Because he had neither health insurance nor enough money to pay for the more than $100,000 in medical bills, his sports agent, Charles Bonsignore, started a fundraiser to raise the necessary money. The tumor was successfully removed on September 26, 2005.

On 4 August, 2013, he married Xu Yan. They are recognized by Guinness World Records as the tallest living married couple with their combined height of 13 ft 10.72 in (423.47 cm).