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Kenny George and his ‘colossal cameo’

Jason Sandford January 20, 2008

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

Roanoke Times

The legend of Kenny George, the tallest man in college basketball, grows.

George played a total of 6.8 seconds in UNCA’s game against VMI Saturday, but that’s all it took for the 7-foot, 7-inch tall player to make the play of the game.

Roanoke.com has the story here:

Summoned from the UNC Asheville bench with 12.8 seconds left in overtime, 7-foot-7, 365-pound Kenny George caught an inbounds lob pass, took one giant step, and then two-handed the ball over the front edge of the rim to provide the game-winning basket in the Bulldogs’ 90-87 overtime victory over VMI.

The crushing loss ended a four-game winning streak for the Keydets (10-7, 2-1 Big South), who with a victory would have solo possession of first place in the conference for the first time since joining in 2003.

Instead, a throng of 4,219 fans — the third-largest crowd in Cameron Hall’s 26-year history — filed out silently.

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

2 Comments

Bmac January 21, 2008

Luckily he doesn’t have to jump to dunk because his vertical is 2 inches.

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Clocky January 20, 2008

My first reaction was, oh my God, are his feet on the floor? The floor? Then I read the article, and yes, the man doesn’t have to jump to dunk the ball.

Jevon Kearse, who used to play football for the Tennessee Titans, got a nickname, "The Freak", because he was amazingly large and muscular, yet he could move as quickly as as much smaller guy.

I think that George deserves a nickname. Anybody?

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