[11.08.2009] Wu Chun considers investing in basketball club

Bruneian Chinese actor Wu Chun said that he was interested in investing in a basketball club, as he recalled a match against Yao Ming in their teen years, the China Daily reported.

"It (investing in a basketball team) is a pretty good idea, and perhaps one day I will buy one," the businessman-turned-actor told China Daily in an interview on Aug 9, without elaborating further.

Wu, 30, is an ardent fan of basketball legend Michael Jordan. He still remembers the result of the game between Brunei and China at an Asian tournament for teens in the Philippines. "It was 126:28, we lost," he said. "I was 14 or 15 then."

Wu played against China's two most powerful giants - Yao Ming, now NBA Houston Rockets centre, and Wang Zhizhi, a former NBA player who is now the centre of Bayi Shuanglu Rockets of China.

"The Chinese players were so tall, and all rebounds were theirs," Wu said. During the match, a much smaller Wu had to confront Yao, because Wu was already one of the tallest of his team. No record on the three's heights at the time was available.

Wu is now 1.83m tall, compared with Wang's 2.14m and Yao's 2.26m. But Wu still managed to be the top scorer of his team at that match, with 10 points, a performance "already handsome enough", he said. China won the title of the tournament that year.