The Rock & Mingming

There is a significant optical illusion with The Rock next to the tallest player in basketball history.

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Although Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is not a small person in his own right, Sun Mingming, a Chinese basketball legend, made him appear much smaller in a 2014 photo.

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When The Rock is best friends with Kevin Hart, who is much shorter than the Black Adam star, it's unusual to see The Rock dwarfed by anyone.

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But when you position him next to Mingming, you can tell that the two men are significantly different in height.

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The 39-year-old is a whole foot and four inches taller than The Rock, standing a whopping seven feet nine inches tall.

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The WWE icon weighs about 260 pounds, but Mingming weighed 370 pounds when he was playing, which is another notable contrast between the two guys.

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If you're not aware with the man mountain known as Mingming, he was a centre for many basketball teams in both his native China and the US.

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Even though he relocated to the USA to attend and play for Venture College in California at the age of 15, he didn't start playing basketball until he was 15 years old.

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Later, he participated in games for the USBL's Dodge City Legends, the ABA's Maryland Nighthawks, and the IBL's Grand Rapids Flight teams.

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After that, he played for the Fuerza Regia and the Hamamatsu Phoenix in Mexico and Japan, respectively, before returning to his own country in 2009 and joining the Beijing Ducks, where he continued to play until his retirement in 2014.

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With his wife Xu Yan, he also owns the title of tallest living married couple, with a combined height of an astounding 13 feet, 10 inches!

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The Rock and Mingming

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