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"2.24 meters tall" and "the best monk", down-to-earth and vivid.

7:48pm, 12 June 2025【Basketball】

"The world's martial arts are produced in Shaolin", this old saying was given a new understanding by a French basketball superstar who is 2.24 meters tall.

San Antonio Spurs' center Victor Vinbanyama is embarking on a unique private journey in China.

This genius who is only 21 years old but has won the NBA two consecutive blocking kings (last season due to thrombosis, he still defended his title with averaging 3.8 blocks per game), after climbing the Great Wall in Beijing and eating beef noodles, he suddenly turned into the gate of Shaolin Temple in Songshan, Henan.

even more shockingly, he shaved his curly hair and put on a robe of the monk in Navy, turning himself into the "No. 1 Shaolin monk" that netizens jokingly called.

The accompanying team quietly evacuated and the itinerary came to an abrupt end - it turned out that this star with an annual salary of 10 million yuan was going to go into seclusion and practice for a full 10 days!

Since O'Neal asked Zen in 2009 and Wade prayed for blessings in 2016, Shaolin Temple welcomed NBA superstars again, but it is the first case that such a "reality" is still the first. Does it really respond to the fans' joke: "If you can't beat basketball, just join the Eastern Metaphysics?" In the sound of wooden fish in the Zen Martial Arts Hall, Wenban Yama's bald head is as shiny as a mirror.

The "Spider-Man on Earth" with an arm span of 2.44 meters is sitting cross-legged on the futon, with a pair of eye-catching sports slippers exposed under the monk's robe, looking like a "Kung Fu Panda" walking out of the comics.

The onlookers held up their mobile phones and laughed: "Is that master in front Curry?" - It turned out that the staff members of the accompanying family also shaved their heads, and the two of them feasted in the vegetarian hall with plain noodles under the name of "brown egg combination".

Shaolin Temple obviously had prepared a long time ago: specially made extended monk robes, oversized trest bowls, and even the plum blossom stakes were lowered.

When the Wenban stood on the wooden stakes to practice balance, the monks raised their heads and exclaimed: "I'm afraid that this is the eighteen bronze man formations will come and call you senior brother!"

The days of retreating and practicing are far harder than expected.

At 4:30 in the morning, the morning bell broke the night, and Wenban Yama was already staging the horse under the Gu Cypress.

Sweat rolled down his bald scalp, and he gritted his teeth and slapped the tree trunk 300 times - this trick originated from the "Shaolin King Kong Finger"'s native steelmaking method, specializing in his three-point shooting percentage of 34.2% last season.

The afternoon meditation room is even more painful: Isolate my mobile phone for 48 hours, copying the Heart Sutra until my knuckles turn white. Abbot Shi Yongxin