While working as a barber, he befriended a skinny local teen-ager named Wong Kam-ming.

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He will now play for the former team of Chinese center, Yao Ming.

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If Lee winds up in Tokyo he would most likely be given a title more elaborate than that of the current director, Chuang Ming-yao.

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