(The interview has been edited for clarity.)Ī: It feels like I’m dreaming. The new training camps and courts springing up across the continent, he said, could make that ride less bumpy. Sitting down in Dakar with The Washington Post, Fall said he hopes the NBA’s Africa expansion will boost other players like him - full of potential but lacking resources. And the kid, to his credit, has just gotten better and better and better.” “I know Johnny Dawkins very well, and Johnny told me, ‘I might have an NBA player here if he can keep on getting better. “Once he got into college, I started watching him,” New York Knicks Coach David Fizdale said. A video of a teenage opponent looking at Fall and shaking his head with resignation went viral.Īfter Fall became the University of Central Florida’s star center, coaches across the country followed his rise. So, he got his mother’s permission to move to the United States, attend high school - first in Texas, then in Florida - and train until he got into college. He had never actually played the game.īut he had the height. Fall, 7-2 at age 16, would mess around on the makeshift court. The friend had a basketball hoop and a ball - rarities in Dakar. Then a man who ran a Senegalese basketball academy spotted him seven years ago at a friend’s house. For these boys who want to be just like him.”įall used to play soccer, Senegal’s favorite sport. But it’s bigger than that, than just the sport. “This past year, that’s when the hype machine really started for him,” says Bosh, a two-time NBA champion.
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