Mengke Bateer
| Personal information | |
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| Born |
November 20, 1975 Hanggin Banner, Inner Mongolia, China |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Listed height | 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) |
| Listed weight | 290 lb (132 kg) |
| Career information | |
| NBA draft | 1999 / Undrafted |
| Playing career | 1997–2014 |
| Position | Center |
| Career history | |
| 1997–2002 | Beijing Ducks |
| 2002 | Denver Nuggets |
| 2002–2003 | San Antonio Spurs |
| 2003–2004 | Toronto Raptors |
| 2004–2005 | Huntsville Flight |
| 2005–2006 | Beijing Ducks |
| 2007–2013 | Xinjiang Flying Tigers |
| 2013 | Sichuan Blue Whales |
| 2013–2014 | Beijing Ducks |
| 2014 | Shaanxi Weinan Xingda |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Traditional Chinese | 孟克巴特爾 | ||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 孟克巴特尔 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Mongolian Cyrillic | Мөнхбаатар | ||||||||||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠮᠥᠩᠬᠡᠪᠠᠭᠠᠲᠤᠷ | ||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Mèngkè Bātèěr |
| Wade–Giles | Meng4-k'o4 Pa1-t'e4-erh3 |
| IPA | [mə̂ŋkʰɤ̂ pátʰɤ̂àɚ] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Meng4 ke4 Ba1 te4 er3 |
| Jyutping | Maang6 hak1 Baa1 dak6 ji5 |
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| SASM/GNC | Monk Batere |
Mengke Bateer (simplified Chinese: 孟克巴特尔; traditional Chinese: 孟克巴特爾; pinyin: Mèngkè Bātèěr, pronounced [mə̂ŋkʰɤ̂ pátʰɤ̂àɚ], mung-KUH bah-TURR; born November 20, 1975), commonly referred to simply as Bateer in China, is a retired Chinese professional basketball player. A tall and imposing presence at the center position, he played parts of three seasons in the NBA, winning the NBA Finals during one of them, but spent the majority of his career competing in the Chinese Basketball Association for the Beijing Ducks and later with the Xinjiang Flying Tigers before ending his career with the Sichuan Blue Whales in the lesser National Basketball League and winning the CBA Finals with Beijing. Mengke scored a total of 8 points with the Toronto Raptors on his last season in the NBA.
Mengke Bateer is a member of the predominant ethnic minority group residing in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Like many other ethnic Mongols, he does not have a family name, and his full name is a composition of two words: Mönkh (Eternal) and Baatar (Hero). In Mandarin, he is simply referred to as Ba Te Er. He is also sometimes affectionately called "Da Ba" (大巴), with Da translating into English as big, and Ba representing the first character of his name in Mandarin.
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