7-footer brothers

[tornado]

http://www.flagrantfouls.com/player-profile/high-school/sim-bhullar.html

http://www.flagrantfouls.com/player-profile/high-school/tanveer-bhullar.html

http://www.flagrantfouls.com/2010/04/video-sim-and-tanveer-bhullar-pitt-jam-fest/

http://www.slamonline.com/online/college-hs/high-school/2009/11/7-foot-is-nice-especially-twice/

one is Class of 2012 (soph 7-4) the other 2013 (freshman7-2!) in Pennsylvania

[Da Coach]

When I was a freshman, I was 4'11", 98 pounds.

The freshman brother is 7'2", 245 pounds.
The sophomore is 7'4", 295 pounds. Just how big will they be when they grow up?
Neither look like they could play at a fast pace, and I wonder just how healthy they can stay if they play competetive basketball?

[tornado]

could they have the condition Andre the Giant and Georghe Muresan have??

[SFP]

could they have the condition Andre the Giant and Georghe Muresan have??

They could but they looked fairly normal, except their height, as gangly teenagers.

[tornado]

The condition referred to, commonly called "gigantism" or acromegaly..
produced dramatic growth first - for several years, then later produces the characteristic bony and facial changes...

so there is an interval from teens through early twenties, when a 7-footer might look and function pretty normally before this condition starts to get suspected...

An example is Russian Pavel Podkolzine, who looked and functioned like a highly gifted and athletic 7-footer, even wowing NBA scouts and being predicted to be a Top-5 pick in the 2003 draft...and he ultimately landed in the 1st round of the 2004 NBA draft.
Only later did he get discovered to have this pituitary condition, and sadly, he has never played ball again, and in the end was a real bust as a 1st round draftee....

http://www.ibiblio.org/craig/draft/2003_draft/Players/podkolzin.shtml

http://www.thetallestman.com/pavelpodkolzin.htm

as for the chances of such a rare condition happening in two members of the same family...it is NOT as unlikely as you might think, since
a certain variant of acromegaly is familial, virtually guaranteeing that if one member of a family has it, that there will be others, too..

http://www.eje-online.org/cgi/content/abstract/133/4/451

http://www.endocrine-abstracts.org/ea/0014/ea0014p605.htm

[tornado]

The older brother Sim Bhullar has reportedly been offered by Pitt......

http://twitter.com/nolanshulman/status/18931185959

in separate news...7-footer Kene Obi at DePaul is leaving and looking to transfer...
he will be a junior but may look to go D-II...as he never demonstrated much in the way of D-I skills...
In his first THREE seasons at DePaul (one was a redshirt) he barely saw the floor...despite being rated fairly high and receiving BCS-caliber offers as a prep schooler.

here's what was said in 2007, but obi didn't pan out...
"Obi is a great piece to have when trying to build for the future..
Put him together with Mac Koshwal who can score on the block and the high
post and you have bookends in the post which they can build around. I like
the direction this team is taking and Kene will definitely be one of the building
blocks for the future of this team."

[Dallas Brave]

When I was a freshman, I was 4'11", 98 pounds.

But DC, you were Doogie Howser before Doogie Howser. You were probably only 8 when you were a freshman. I saw those College Bowl pics!

[AZ BU Fan]

My HS BB team in Des Moines Ia in 1976 had two 6'11" kids who could play, and a couple 6'8" kids on the team as well. In fact, the Des Moines Ia Metro Conference that year had almost a dozen kids playing who were taller than 6'8" and most were decent ball players....

[BradleyJD]

http://www.flagrantfouls.com/player-...m-bhullar.html

http://www.flagrantfouls.com/player-profile/high-school/tanveer-bhullar.html

http://www.flagrantfouls.com/2010/04/video-sim-and-tanveer-bhullar-pitt-jam-fest/

http://www.slamonline.com/online/college-hs/high-school/2009/11/7-foot-is-nice-especially-twice/

one is Class of 2012 (soph 7-4) the other 2013 (freshman7-2!) in Pennsylvania

I thought heard a while back they were coming to the tournament of champions in Washington. Is that correct?

[tornado]

in separate news...7-footer Kene Obi at DePaul is leaving and looking to transfer...he will be a junior but may look to go D-II...as he never demonstrated much in the way of D-I skills......

wow, this is really a big step down for DePaul's Kene Obi

he is transferring to Young Harris College....
never heard of them?? Join the masses....as they are virtually unheard-of for everyone...

Here's why, up until just a couple months ago, they were a small Georgia 2-year junior college! (Methodist Church affiliation)
Starting this year, they are transitioning to become a full 4-year hool, and have applied for membership in NCAA D-II...
but in Obi's two years of eligibility there, they will still be transitional, and not be eligible for post-season play...

http://www.yhcathletics.com/page.asp?articleID=145

They do not offer scholarships and select the team based on tryouts like a high school!

http://www.yhcathletics.com/article.asp?articleID=139

They have roughly 400 incoming freshmen, and 400 sophomores, but their junior class, given that this is the very first year they have ever had juniors, is quite small......so Obi will be their "most senior veteran" for the remainder of his playing career.



BTW speaking of transitioning...
Candian university - Simon Fraser Univ. becomes the ONLY school outside the US to be a member of NCAA as they begin their first year of NCAA Division II

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jeILvhfuU0AioPQcmXxPw0QSNPXw

[tornado]

breaking news on the Bhullar brothers...

both Bhullars and one other near-7-footer teammate have all suddenly left the high school they were at, a private high school in Pennsylvania, and are transferring elsewhere--
very unusual given that the high school basketball season has already started....
and it is said they are going elsewhere to a school outside of Pennsylvania...
let's see if they end up at Kentucky driving Beamers...

http://blogs.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/sports/varsity-blog/23498-7-footers-and-6-10-player-leave-kiski-school

[AZ BU Fan]

They could end up at BU setting high screens for JL!

[tornado]

two of the three, the older Bhullar & Jackovic, are headed to Huntington Prep

[tornado]

just a followup....and nobody really knows yet how this guy'll turnout - he may yet be a superstar but it appears that his college potential may just have been vastly overrated by some....

Sim Bhullar - who is 7-5 and listed on one website as being among the top 20 tallest men alive currently - was the subject of an intense recruiting battle - and it appeared that Xavier had won.....
BUT -- after watching Bhullar a bit more - Xavier reneged on their schoolarship offer and cut Bhullar loose...clearly they knew something...

Remember - people went gaga over Bhullar as he was starring on the AAU circuit - and nobody really knows why - since any player who is almost 2 feet taller than most all of his opponents - ought to dominate regularly - but Bhullar did NOT....even despite staying in prep school 'til he was in his 20's...
BUT - many still called him the next Yao Ming/Asian superstar...and ranked up in the Top 150
NBE basketball even had him at #81 - and the #15 best center!

BUT he finally landed at New Mexico State - reportedly struggled to adjust to the college game, was badly suited for any kind of running game, was way behind everyone else and finally just decided to take the whole year off and redshirt...since he wasn't cleared by the NCAA having come from several Candian schools and prep schools
This performance probably will also hurt Sim's little brother Tanveer's (2013 recruit in prep school) recruitment...