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Yao Ming

NPR | By Anthony Kuhn

Published February 6, 2003 at 11:00 PM CST

At Sunday's NBA all-star game in Atlanta, the Western conference's starting center will be Yao Ming, the 7-foot, 5-inch Houston Rockets rookie from China. Anthony Kuhn reports from Beijing that no Chinese athlete has ever reached such heights of fame or fortune.

Anthony Kuhn

Anthony Kuhn is NPR's correspondent based in Seoul, South Korea.

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