The superstar won a Gold Medal as a member of the United States Men's basketball team in the two thousand eight summer Olympic Games in China.
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The state-run Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted sources in China's embassy confirming the men were from China's southern province of Fujian who were in Iraq to help rebuild an Iraqi plant.
He did not greet the U.S. crew that had been detained by China when the men and women came home, and he made no public statements during the recent racial unrest in Cincinnati.