BEIJING (AP) -Thirty years after the Washington Wizards became the first NBA team to visit China, veterans of the team plan a return trip to the basketball-crazed country next month.
Hall of Famers Wes Unseld and Elvin Hayes, stars of the 1979 team then known as the Bullets, will be joined on the visit Sept. 5-15 by current Wizards players Caron Butler and Randy Foye, the team announced in a statement.
Joining them will be another former Bullet, towering 7-foot-7 center Gheorghe Muresan of Romania – one of the tallest men to ever play in the NBA.
The visitors will travel to Beijing and the commercial center of Shanghai, along with parts of the southwestern province of Sichuan that were devastated by last year’s massive earthquake.
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