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Mengke Bateer, sounds not a Chinese name. Bateer was born in 1975 in Inner Mongolia, China, the province that very close to Mongolia, the country surround by China and Russia. He is the one of the greatest center in the NBA history. When he was 9, he was recommend to Inner Mongolia Youth Team by the city government. The second year, he was selected as the player in Inner Mongolia one team, the team with all good players from different city in Inner Mongolia, at that time, he was only 10. However, the Inner Mongolia Administration of sports decided to disband the Basketball, but the administration of sports didn't want bateer waste his ability, and recommend him to Beijing Basketball team. In Inner Mongolia, people speak Mongolian as their first language. So Bateer needs to learn how to speak Mandarin.
Beijing team was his milestone, he was selected as the player in National Youth team and play for the Asia Youth tournament and with he campion.
In 1999, Phenix suns invite Bateer for the training camp, his NBA career was started. He signed with Denver Nuggets in 2002. Wang Zhizhi was already the NBA player in the Dallas Mavericks. In March 3rd, there were over two billion of people watched Nugget V.S. Mavericks, just want to saw to Chinese player combat with each other. He also the first Chinese player who was in the start lineup, that Yao Ming wasn't achieved. In 2003, Bateer was traded to San Antonio Spurs and won his ring and be the first Chinese player who won the Championship ring in the NBA. He also played for Raptors, Magic and Knicks for a very short time. Because of the injuries, he backed to China and sign with XinJiang tigers, and help his team to won the second place in the season, which was their best record of the XinJinag Tigers.
In July, 2015, he was retired.
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