<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">HONG KONG -- A 7-foot-8 Chinese basketball player hopes to follow in the footsteps of Houston Rockets center Yao Ming. Sun Mingming, two inches taller than Yao, has attended a training camp in the United States and hopes to be picked in the NBA draft next month, the South China Morning Post reported Sunday. If the 22-year-old Sun is signed by an NBA team, he would become the tallest player in league history.</div> Source