Where is My Tall Gene?

Wednesday, April 20, 2005
What's with all these really tall Chinese guys? Sun Ming Ming is a potential pick in this year's NBA draft. He is 7'8". What's up with that? Where all all these tall Chinese guys, like Yao Ming, coming from and how come I didn't get some of this tall DNA?

Scroll down the link and look at the size of this guys hands. Go pick up a basketball for comparison. Its frightening; it's like he is holding a tennis ball or something.

3 comments:

Kat said...

when i was in china, one oft he university students asked my friend and i why americans are so tall, because the chinese typically are not. my friend repolied, "we drink milk." maybe we started a new trend there and now there are a bunch of tall chinese milk drinkers. LOL

Ryan said...

I'd guess that both of these two are not genetically predispositioned to be tall, but have/had a pituitary abnormality which caused the growth. It may be that certain Chinese guys merely have a genetic tendency toward pituitary problems. And what are you complaining about? You're one of the tallest Chinese guys I know.

Anonymous said...

The guy's hands are huge1 And you know what they say, "big hands
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