Career averages of 3.8 points, 2.7 rebounds and 11.6 minutes in 39 games … Has played for the Beijing Ducks in the Chinese Basketball Association and since he was 18 for the Chinese National Team … Teammates on the National Team include NBAers Yao Ming and Wang Zhi-Zhi … Was China’s starting centre for the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games … Helped China to a silver medal at the 2001 World University Games and the ABC Championship … Had team highs of 19 points and seven rebounds in 34 minutes in a loss to Team USA in the 2002 World Championship … Played for the Chinese National Team in the 1994, 1998 and 2002 Asian Games … Represented his country in the 1995 World University Games, the 1995 ABC Championship and the 1999 Goodwill Games …

Name is pronounced (MENK) (ba-TUR)

Established the Bateer Basketball Foundation in February of 2002 for Chinese fans to donate money to build a school – the Basketball Hope Charity School - in his home town of Hangjing County, Erdos Prairie of Inner Mongolia

The second player from China to play in the NBA, following his teammate on the Chinese National Team, Wang Zhizhi

He and his wife, Delinuoer Jumahong, have two daughters, Difeilana and Niu-Niu, and a son, Baenze

An estimated 400 million Chinese viewers tuned in on 3/3/02 when Bateer and the Nuggets faced Wang and the Mavericks as the game was broadcast live in China on CCTV

Lists lamb, steak and bar-b-que as his favorite