He is a 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) tall power forward-center, and his nickname is "The Beast".
[2] He became the first Chinese player to ever sign with a Euroleague club, when he joined the Greek League team Panathinaikos for the 2013–14 season.
After playing high school basketball at Avondale College in Auckland, New Zealand, Shang played college basketball at Illinois Central Community College from 2005 to 2007, at the University of Nebraska, where he played with the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 2007 to 2008, and at Emporia State University from 2008 to 2009.
Shang began his pro career with the Beijing Ducks of the Chinese Basketball Association in 2009.
[3][4] He returned to China in 2014 and spent the next two seasons with the Tianjin Gold Lions.