A photo of a March Madness basketball star looking monstrously giant next to a TV star is blowing minds across America right now.
It was then that he realised all he has to do to keep the ball away from opposition is to raise the ball above his head.
The truly scary thing is that the player he has made look like a four-foot Game of Thrones character, Houston’s Fabian White, is actually 2.01m tall himself — almost the same height as Collingwood AFL ruckman Brodie Grundy.His wingspan was recently measured at 2.44m.That means he can dunk the basketball with both feet planted on the ground. Easily.
Fall is just two inches shorter than NBA mountain Paul Sturgess, who famously still has the record as the tallest player the NBA has ever seen at 2.34m.Unfortunately, in the modern NBA right now, that height is actually expected to see him drop down the pecking order at the 2019 NBA Draft.His selection would be the exception to the rule recently in the league, where big men are required to be more agile.
Philadelphia star Boban Marjanovic is now the tallest player in the NBA at 2.21m tall. Fall had previously been expected to be a high end draft pick in 2017, but injured his shoulder.Fall, was brought to the United States from Senegal as a 16-year-old, when spotted at a basketball camp by Ibrahim N’Diaye, whose brother, Mamadou played in the NBA.
From there he was given a scholarship to Liberty Christian Academy in Florida and boarded with “host mum” Mandy Wettstein in a similar script to the story of NFL star Michael Oher, portrayed in Hollywood movie The Blindside.
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