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Manute Bol may have played in NBA at age 50

Meh...

Greg Oden was still in high school when he was 50. This isn't that impressive.

Spot on Isaac, hardly think when these kids are coming through they're thinking "Let's take away a couple of years so I can play junior basketball an extra few years", and hardly think it's their call anyway.

I wonder if he played U16 when he was really 25?

Just because date of births aren't recorded doesn't mean they should lie and lower their age by 10yrs. I'm sick of these liar players. Scamming from day one our western system.

All love and respect to Manute for what he gave our great game, truly phenomenal to watch him play and if he did that at 50 whilst blind rotten drunk then I guess that adds to his legend... poor lion

Just because date of births aren't recorded doesn't mean they should lie and lower their age by 10yrs. I'm sick of these liar players. Scamming from day one our western system.

I remember when Bol and Barkley were teammates in Philly, Barkley told a story that Bol would tell everyone he once killed a lion with a spear growing up and Barkley said Bol used to always leave out the part that the lion was sleeping at the time.

Still the only player in NBA history to have more blocks than points.

Used to play blind drunk as well apparently

Was one of my favourite players watching as a kid.
Hence my handle. RIP Manute

Hard to believe, but I heard he didn't even get a birthday CAKE, let alone PARTY, on each yearly anniversary of him having entered the world. Not once.

Good job dismissing a complex history anon.

Yeah Manute should've written his date of birth down after he was born and enlightened his family to the value of westernised culture in the process, lazy fella.

Seriously once there's a 7Ft plus actor they should make a movie of his life. If done well it'd be an amazing story.

In this day and age the story will never happen. He'd be in an American program by age 13 and heaven and earth would be moved to accomodate his lack of western knowledge and help his 'grades.'

You're right, maybe when Bol Bol makes the NBA and has some money he can send over a team to try and find the piece of paper someone wrote his father's date of birth on.

Paperwork includes merely writing down date of birth on a bit of paper... not hard at all.

Yeah, those lazy Africans. Least they could do is find the time to complete, lodge, and file birth certificates in between all that civil warring.... Priorities.

Africa - where paperwork is too hard.

Just doing a project for school. Can everyone who reads this topic please answer the following questions:

Age?-
Height?-
Can you dunk?-
How old were you when you could first dunk?