Mamadou Ndiaye: Just Your Average High School Basketball Player…Who’s 7’5”
Amazingly, video of Wilt Chamberlain’s legendary 100-point game in 1962 does not exist. But if high-school basketball players want to know what it felt like for those relatively diminutive New York Knicks to match up against the prolific seven-footer, they should schedule some games against Brethren Christian High School in California. That’s where Mamadou Ndiaye plays basketball.
He’s seven-foot-five. He’s only 18.
The Senegal native is averaging 22.9 points per game, 13.2 rebounds and 4.7 blocks per game, which actually seems low considering he’s easily more than a foot taller than every opponent.
How does he lose the opening tip?! That’s inexcusable! Okay, otherwise, he’s a dominant force.
In other high-school basketball news, here’s a kid taking an in-bounds pass and scoring an uncontested lay-up with 11 seconds left. The only problem? He scored on his own basket. They lost by 1.
(top vid via WhiteFlightBD via Complex Mag)
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