Definition of toil. 1  1 : a net to trap game. 2  2 : something by which one is held fast or inextricably involved : snare, trap âusually used in plural caught in the toils of the law.
One of the tallest players in the history of professional basketball is Sun Ming Ming, from Bayan in China. He stands 236 cm (7 ft 9 in) tall. He plays for the Maryland Nighthawks. The tallest player in National Basketball Association (NBA) history is Manute Bol, a Sudanese who measured 7 feet 7 inches (231 cm) tall, and played for the Washington Bullets. Of equal height was Romanian player Gheorghe MureÅan who also played in the NBA.
Yao Ming was born on September 12, 1980 in Shanghai, China. Standing at 7 feet six inches tall, Yao was the tallest active player in the NBA during his final season in the league. Yao began playing basketball professionally as a teenager for the Shanghai Sharks (a team he would eventually purchase).