The Maryland Nighthawks introduced 7'9" Sun Ming Ming to the rest of the basketball world today. Ming, who last played with the Dodge City Legend of the United States Basketball League will be used as a ploy to sell tickets and attract fans to the ABA. Nonetheless, it is big news and the NBA has taken notice.
"We will monitor his progress. His name has cropped up, but since he's never really played, I don't know how he can be on our radar," Marty Blake, the NBA's director of scouting, said in a telephone interview. "We would be interested in a player of some repute anywhere in the world, especially one who's 7-9. ... As (former Utah Jazz coach) Frank Layden always said, 'You can't teach height."
As noted in the teams release the team and the community is pumped to get the big man in their arena for many reasons noted again by USA Today.
Nighthawks coach William Rankin, the man who will reap the benefits of #79, foresees Sun will play roughly 28-30 minutes a game; with his debut coming this Saturday.
Sun already has made a fan of his new teammates with Nighthawks guard Randy Gill telling the crowd,"Every day, somebody's going to get dunked on."
Go Nighthawks!
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