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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

Yao Ming

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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
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Ming Yao
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