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MENGKE BATEERpronounced (MENK) (ba-tur)

Menk Bateer as his NBA friends may have called him was the second Chinese player to ever be brought into the NBA, and like Wang Zhi Zhi, he faded and did so quickly! If anything, you have got to give Yao Ming some due, he has made it and lived up to his hype and beyond.

You can't just say it's a size thing either cause Bateer and Zhi Zhi were both 7 feet tall, and then some.

Bateer's last NBA season was 03-04 with Toronto. He played in the NBDL for 12 games in 2004-05. Regardless of his NBA career, the goofy lookin' guy is MVP of the Chinese Basketball League.