Imagine if your middle school basketball team had to play against this guy.
Chol Marial, a 14-year-old eighth grader in Florida, stands 7 feet 2, or 7 feet 3, depending on the source.
But in that rarefied air, does his exact height really matter?
As this highlight reel posted June 8 by CityLeagueHoopsTV shows, Marial can move with surprising agility. He can dunk (duh). And he can play nasty defense, swatting away shots as he casts a shadow over opponents that could cover an entire school cafeteria.
According to reports, he has a 7-foot-11 wingspan. The kid is a condor in sneakers.
While Marial would undoubtedly be a middle school opponent's worst nightmare, he was listed by MaxPreps on the roster of the high school varsity at West Oaks Academy in Orlando, Florida, last season. West Oaks finished 32-4 and ranked third in the state, according to MaxPreps.
The viral highlight reel's YouTube description noted that Marial joined a Florida team for a National Youth Basketball League event in Columbus, Ohio, last week and "dominated."
At 8-foot-3, Sultan Kosen was declared the world's tallest living man in 2009 after another candidate, Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk, refused to be measured.
World's Tallest Man Poses Next To World's Tallest Man
The world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen of Turkey, measuring 8-feet, 3 inches tall, right, poses next to a figure of the tallest man in history, Robert Wadlow of the U.S., after a promotional event in Hong Kong.
With the Guinness certification of Kösen, Bao Xishun is now considered the world's second tallest living man. The 7-foot, 9-inch herdsman from Inner Mongolia, China, married in 2007, and became the world's biggest daddy a year later.
At 8 feet, 11 inches tall, Robert Wadlow of Alton, Ill., is the tallest man ever to be measured. Doctors attributed his growth to abnormalities in his pituitary gland. He was still growing in 1940 when he died of an infection, caused by a blister. He was only 22 years old.
At 7-foot-6, Houston Rockets star Yao Ming is the tallest player in the NBA and one of the best-known athletes in the world.
Trijntje Keever of the Netherlands is the tallest woman in history, standing at 8 feet, 4 inches, at the time of her death in 1633. She was 17 years old and suffered from cancer.
At 7 feet, 7 inches, Sandy Allen was the tallest woman in the world at the time of her death in 2008. Throughout her life she declined to star in sideshows, but did appear in the Academy Award-winning 'Fellini's Casanova.'
Yao Defen of China has been reported to be nearly 7-foot-9, but has never been certified by Guinness. She has declined to be measured in recent years because of her health. She was injured in a fall in 2009, and was left temporarily unable to stand.
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