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Zupan was born without hearing and learned to speak over many years of effort at special schools before taking up basketball at the late age!
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Miha Zupan
Slovenian basketball player
Miha Zupan (born September 13, ) is a Deaf Slovenian former professional basketball player. He played among hearing players at the highest level in Europe.
He is a m (6ft 8+34 in) power forward who can also play center when needed. He is the only deaf person to play in professional basketball league and in the EuroCup.[1] Miha Zupan has competed at the Deaflympics on 5 occasions from to [2]
Early years
Zupan spent most of his childhood in a school for the deaf, eventually learning to speak.
A type of hearing aid would later give him enough hearing to understand speech.
Miha Zupan (born September 13, ) is a Slovenian former professional basketball player.He did not learn to play basketball until age 14, instead playing football and volleyball. After his first basketball coach spotted him in a schoolyard, he took to the game quickly, soon joining Slovenia's national basketball team for the Deaf, which twice made the finals of the European championships with Zupan as its star.
He was selected to