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AuthorZack, Ian
PositionSports - Basketball player Yao Ming

As China flirts with capitalism at home, It's sending a big new export into the U.S. market: Yao Ming, the 7-foot-5-1nch center who begins playing this fall with the NBA's Houston Rockets. At four inches taller than Shaqullle O'Neal, Yao is the tallest player ever selected first in the NBA draft. The Rockets had to negotiate with the Chinese government to sign him. Yao, 22, will earn $17.8 million over four years, a far...

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