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With the help of big-name endorsements from NBA superstar LeBron James and celebrity choreographer Wade Robson, Alan Hall ’89 managed to steal the show at the MTV Video Music Awards—not with a song, but with a commercial for Juice Batteries...
There are, of course, plenty of hidden treasures in the Middle Kingdom. Aside from Yao, two other Chinese hoopsters already play in the NBA: Mengke Bateer, a muscle-bound 6-ft. 11-in. reserve center with the Toronto Raptors, and Wang Zhizhi, a lithe, 7-ft. 1-in. sharpshooter with the Los Angeles Clippers. Another player, a rail-thin center named Xue Yuyang, 20, was chosen in the second round in June's NBA draft, but Beijing--rankled by his decision to enter the draft without official permission--has refused to let him test his mettle in America. So instead...
...quit," Yi says. "I had never lived away from home before, and I had no idea if I could make it as an athlete." But his body kept growing, and so did his determination to make the best of a difficult situation. Yi still preferred watching cartoons to NBA games, but by the time he joined Guangdong's professional Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) team last year, he was an astonishing 6 ft. 11 in.--and he could leap and touch a spot more than 11 ft. 6 in. off the ground. (The basketball rim is 10 feet high...
...when might Yi Jianlian don an NBA uniform? That depends on the biggest mystery of all: his age. The national junior-team roster says Yi was born on Oct. 27, 1987, which would make him just 15--and not eligible to enter the NBA draft independently as an international player until 2009. Several well-placed Chinese basketball experts say he is 17 or 18. Dates are manipulated, they claim, to give Yi more years of eligibility for junior competitions, which China counts on to increase its international prestige. (Age shaving is endemic in international junior competitions. It even affected...
...other hand, parents don't want to send their children the message that they're somehow deficient because they're not NBA material. Taking HGH is a big commitment. To get the best results requires daily shots with a cold needle of a drug that can cost $20,000 a year. Even then the results may be modest. In one trial, children who took Eli Lilly's Humatrope three times a week for years gained an average of only 1.5 in. over a group taking a placebo. In a higher-dose trial, children taking the drug six times a week...