Incoming College Freshman Star Is the Tallest College Basketball Player Ever

Oh, Canada!
As America’s cousins to the north continue to develop into an international basketball powerhouse — as Forbes notes, Team Canada’s Olympic basketball team is chock full of legit NBA talent, including the league MVP runner-up Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and an All-Defense player in Lu Dort — more and more colleges will be looking to Canada to cultivate their next generation of talent.
When it comes to 18-year-old Olivier Rioux, a Montreal native according to CNN, it would be hard to miss him even if Team Canada were not the rising basketball force it was.

And that’s because it’s literally hard to miss Rioux, who comes in at an almost unfathomable 7‑foot‑9.
No, that’s not a typo.

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Seven. Foot. Nine.
Just look at this highlight reel of Rioux’s fro …