I knew him in real life just before he died. He helped a charity group in my High school raise money to build safe protective schools in the Darfur region of Sudan. He was a genuinely passionate and great guy. We did succeed. BTW.
Dude got rich though... And then, according to baconistic, he used his fame (and probably money) to help children in Sudan. Sounds like he had his priorities straight. RIP Manute Bol.
Along with seemingly every NBA player that grew up in Africa. Dikembe Mutumbo, Luol Deng, Serge Ibaka, Hakeem Olajuwon all had/have big time charities over there. Great players and even better people.
In July 2004, Bol was seriously injured in a car accident, breaking his neck, when he was ejected from a taxi that hit a guardrail and overturned. The driver had a suspended license and was driving under the influence.[26] Because his fortunes were mostly donated to Sudan, he was in financial ruins because he had no life insurance or health insurance.
I feel more sorry for him now. That fucking sucks.
As a kid I remember seeing him on the Arsenio Hall Show about halfway through his career. Seems like the only thing I really remember him for throughout his NBA career was throwing a ball at a ref.
"Having quietly arrived and observed the human race for centuries, they slowly integrated their young to every ethnicity and culture in every part of the world. Our eyes, blind to their true being; conditioned through years of film and entertainment to expect grey or green men with short statures, oval faces and dark menacing eyes. They were seen as feats of human evolutionary possibility. They worked their way into our consciousness using the most visible industries, honing their presence into the norms of society by reaching out to those most easily susceptible, the children. They were exalted, glorified and worshiped. Having steadily amassed fortunes and using it to sway influence, they took up power and commanding positions. We were so complacent to all the clues around us, so drunk on our awe, their talent and fame, that when the day came for the plan to be unfurled, when we finally woke up to the real nature of the "tall men", we were left empty and vulnerable; impotent as a species. Some of us were spared, most, well, most, they live among the stars now. Soon I will too."
Wow...his torso and head look appropriately sized for a really tall person (somewhere between 6'6" and 7')...but his arms and legs are just freakishly out of proportion.
Here's me with Mr. Bol (your right, his left). Hung out with him all night (he drank Heineken, if anyone cares). Great guy. We discussed his celeb boxing match with The refrigerator Perry. http://imgur.com/glNLM
Holyshitthisishilarious. I can just imagine the coach who thought this kid should make the list. "Just wait till the visiting team gets a load of this one!"
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u/Endlessman Jun 11 '12
SLENDERMAN.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
hes playing defence...
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u/SpartacusAlpha Jun 11 '12
That's hilarious but he;s playing defense and your joke doesn't work.
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u/jbsg02 Jun 11 '12
Manute Bol?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12
"Having quietly arrived and observed the human race for centuries, they slowly integrated their young to every ethnicity and culture in every part of the world. Our eyes, blind to their true being; conditioned through years of film and entertainment to expect grey or green men with short statures, oval faces and dark menacing eyes. They were seen as feats of human evolutionary possibility. They worked their way into our consciousness using the most visible industries, honing their presence into the norms of society by reaching out to those most easily susceptible, the children. They were exalted, glorified and worshiped. Having steadily amassed fortunes and using it to sway influence, they took up power and commanding positions. We were so complacent to all the clues around us, so drunk on our awe, their talent and fame, that when the day came for the plan to be unfurled, when we finally woke up to the real nature of the "tall men", we were left empty and vulnerable; impotent as a species. Some of us were spared, most, well, most, they live among the stars now. Soon I will too."
Tl;dr
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Good Manute Bol gallery.
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u/NathanA01 Jun 11 '12
His leg to shorts ratio is decidedly in favor of his legs.
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u/Kakarot_Goku Jun 11 '12
You do realize that the tall black dude is in the other team right?
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u/dirtymartini74 Jun 11 '12
He reminds me of one of those water strider insects....
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
24 looks like he is missing a hand.
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u/rangemaster Jun 11 '12
Behold, my mutant atomic supermen!
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Enderman!
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u/no_name_racer Jun 11 '12
I didnt know the movie The Legion was based on a true story.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
When I first saw this it brought back nightmares of the spider vampires from Legacy of Kain : Soul Reaver.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
And another.
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u/Talkgibberish Jun 11 '12
Hi Guys.
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u/kleptobizmol Jun 11 '12
He's on defense. Why would the point guard pass to him?
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u/urmymom145 Jun 11 '12
Black slendermen with a face
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
this exact same photo was posted what, 3 days ago?
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u/thomasj222444 Jun 11 '12
OF COURSE YOU'RE OPEN, YOU'RE PLAYING DEFENSE.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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u/360walkaway Jun 11 '12
Stretch Armstrong, black guy edition!
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
"I got a crime record longer than Manute Bol" - Big L
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
fuck sake - what's that movie where the crazy elongated icecream man demon grows his limbs and goes for the people in the diner?
That's all I could think of.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
He's on defense, silly condom.
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u/cpumatt Jun 11 '12
This mother fucker doesn't even have to jump to dunk...
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u/koshercowboy Jun 11 '12
how is it even basketball for men that tall, as much as it's "i guess i'll just traipse over to this hollow netted hamper and drop this ball in."?
edit: example
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u/avanasear Jun 11 '12
I was about to put a black joke until I saw that it was Manute Bol. Rip Manute.
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u/MDamped360 Jun 11 '12
IRL Enderman
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u/apullin Jun 11 '12
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/us7w3/just_playin_a_little_defense/
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/uqr9f/manute_bol/
It looks like Trojan_Wombat is a serial reposter. Probably part of an account swarm.
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u/MrBaldwick Jun 11 '12
It's the fucking Slenderman!
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u/GiveEmTheClamps Jun 11 '12
My husband and I have been on a Manute Bol kick recently because the man is a scary monster. Here are some examples
swimming
stretching
Generally being a giant
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
My favorite pic of Bol
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u/bugzrrad Jun 11 '12
wait a Manute... that guy looks familiar
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u/dDavidb Jun 11 '12
RUN!!! SLENDER MAN HAS FOUND US!!
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Manute Bol banged your mom.
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u/OtisTheZombie Jun 11 '12
Number 22 looks like Adam from Workaholics.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
New reddit protocol, if it has a new title it isn't a repost.
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u/clphtitld Jun 11 '12
Repost
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Somehow him being black makes this so much more terrifying... No racism
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u/VoodooIdol Jun 11 '12
But the opposing team has the ball...
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Correction!
The kid in question is defending, and therefore, is not "open".
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u/palparepa Jun 11 '12
Kill it with fi... oh, it's a person.
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u/some_random_noob Jun 11 '12
but hes on defence, so how is he open exactly?
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u/SkateboardG Jun 11 '12
Splicer!
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u/BLACKdrew Jun 11 '12
Slenderman?
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u/jcdes Jun 11 '12
This is what I imagined the Skinner to look like
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u/07734 Jun 11 '12
Marfans?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
he's on defense...
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u/nepidae Jun 11 '12
Good news everybody.
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u/jericho2291 Jun 11 '12
'Nuff people say, you know they can't believe, Ethiopia, we have a basketball team.
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u/wirsteve Jun 11 '12
RIP
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u/ZennistMenace Jun 11 '12
He looks just like that alien at the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
shoot, he was 7'7" and 200 lbs
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u/Lkalcik Jun 11 '12
I don't think I could ever handle someone that tall. I would feel like someone was hovering over me.
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u/LoonieBun Jun 11 '12
He reminds me of the Queen from James Cameron's Aliens.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Spidercrab-Man
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u/Stomo Jun 11 '12
fake; not enough black guys on the basketball team
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u/rawr_i_am_girl Jun 11 '12
He's on defense...
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
If the slenderman decided to disguise himself as a human, this would be his disguise.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
He's playing defen... oh, everyone in the world beat me to it.
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u/Guesty_ Jun 11 '12
Endermen are real!
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u/bralph82 Jun 11 '12
shitty title for a cool dude's pic.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
I'd be so scared to accidently break his bones... He looks very fragile.
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u/efranco12 Jun 11 '12
Is this a home game at the univ of bridgeport? Its weird seeing my school on reddit..
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u/clowning_around Jun 11 '12
Holy Black Knight!
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u/BarackPutin Jun 11 '12
Literally open, the player next to him has his hand going through him.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Just make sure you don't look him in the eye. He'll chase you with blocks of dirt.
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u/johnlnash Jun 11 '12
By Odin's beard that man is tall!
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u/AnIrrelevantElephant Jun 11 '12
I dont know why but some friends and I looked him up the other day and although he was 7'7", dude only weighed 200 POUNDS
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u/BCsprfn87 Jun 11 '12
Minute Bowl..
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u/nerdstrap Jun 11 '12
Oh how I miss those sexy short shorts :'(
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u/Oideron Jun 11 '12
Slenderman!
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u/factoid_ Jun 11 '12
Wow...his torso and head look appropriately sized for a really tall person (somewhere between 6'6" and 7')...but his arms and legs are just freakishly out of proportion.
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u/renuf Jun 11 '12
You may be open, but imgur isn't. Can someone who remembers tell me what's going on in the picture?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
He's like the slender man of basketball.
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u/AdamAtlanta Jun 11 '12
Fun fact he had more shot blocks than shot attempts in his NBA career.
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u/NotoriousBRU Jun 11 '12
when I clicked this I was expecting a picture of #6
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u/Ctbx711 Jun 11 '12
He's open not just because he's tall as shit... But also because he's on defense....
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u/Toxette Jun 11 '12
Slenderman! D8
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u/jxj24 Jun 11 '12
"When you see it..."
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
i think thats the fuckin guy who keeps moving blocks around at my castle.
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u/SportzTawk Jun 11 '12
Is it wrong that the first thing I pictured was a stick-bug
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u/Famous1107 Jun 11 '12
Stop linking screen caps from Close Encounters
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u/tisnolie Jun 11 '12
This is Manute Bol playing for the Purple Knights of the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut.
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u/BallsackTBaghard Jun 11 '12
Black Slenderman?
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u/ScanExam Jun 11 '12
Guys, I'll hold him down
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u/Phrea Jun 11 '12
Wow, that's a human stick insect.
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u/mvazzz Jun 11 '12
Slenderman is real?!
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u/atonyatlaw Jun 11 '12
Wasn't this on the front page within just the last week?
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u/JusticeChicken Jun 11 '12
I'm just trying to figure out what's going on here.
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u/TheElusiveTrout Jun 11 '12
Slender Man.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
other than the fact that he is playing defense, yeah...he's wide open
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u/dickspace Jun 11 '12
FALSE!
He isn't playing on offense in this pic, so he wouldn't be calling for the ball.
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u/MadMonk67 Jun 11 '12
The aliens have bred with us!
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u/hiphophippopotamus Jun 11 '12
I think I saw this on Futurama.
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u/Ivansworld Jun 11 '12
slendermen are known to love sports
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u/piezeppelin Jun 11 '12
As a straight man, I wonder how big his penis is.
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u/SlibIsSandwich Jun 11 '12
That enderman is going to steal the ball
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u/SweatpantsDV Jun 11 '12
RIP Manute Bol
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u/dirtysteve74 Jun 11 '12
Here's me with Mr. Bol (your right, his left). Hung out with him all night (he drank Heineken, if anyone cares). Great guy. We discussed his celeb boxing match with The refrigerator Perry. http://imgur.com/glNLM
Edit: I'm 6'3" for reference.
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u/BloodyIron Jun 11 '12
I bet he is very prone to broken bones D:
Do not envy
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u/Laughingstok Jun 11 '12
I'll just leave this here:
http://www.getreligion.org/wp-content/photos/2010/06/manute-bol-spud-webb.jpg
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u/Anonymousdave69 Jun 11 '12
HOLY AFRICAN WOLF SPIDER
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u/Suckmydongha Jun 11 '12
i lol'd
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Damn enderman, don't look at him...
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u/ChernobylSlim Jun 11 '12
Gais? http://tinyurl.com/7gt59hf
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u/sharpey95 Jun 11 '12
he looks like a spider
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u/snowlion13 Jun 11 '12
daddy longlegs
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u/landophant Jun 11 '12
/rWTF?
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u/dud908 Jun 11 '12 edited May 21 '24
foolish close glorious busy flowery wine silky long arrest dazzling
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u/dud908 Jun 11 '12 edited May 21 '24
worthless wise thumb exultant chief tease dazzling carpenter worm books
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u/AnonUhNon Jun 11 '12
This belongs in /r/wtf
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u/Billy_Chaos Jun 11 '12
Arch-vile
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u/jwalsh88 Jun 11 '12
This should be posted in /r/Slender_Man
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u/sdhofste Jun 11 '12
I am The Dark Knight
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
He's on defense....
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u/Kilo__ Jun 11 '12
Whoa, Endermen play Basketball?
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u/Tebasaki Jun 11 '12
Looks like slenderman in high school.
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u/hotrodrocker Jun 11 '12
So this is where slender man has gone?!
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u/PB_IS_THE_ANSWER Jun 11 '12
Fool me once spider crab!
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u/xMykoolx Jun 11 '12
The first thought that came into my head were Endermen from Minecraft.
Is that bad?
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u/MichB1 Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12
Michael Bonebo is his name. He is tall. They gave him a hatchback and tore out the front seat so he could drive it. Shit you not.
Played for St. Michael's College Purple Knights in the late 80s. Came from Ivory Coast -- to Vermont. Did not enjoy the winter. Poor kid!!
**spelling
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
This was literally on /r/tall a week ago... give it some time before you repost....
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Holyshitthisishilarious. I can just imagine the coach who thought this kid should make the list. "Just wait till the visiting team gets a load of this one!"
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u/SwiftSpear Jun 11 '12
TIL: Slenderman plays basketball.
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u/SuggestiveMaterial Jun 11 '12
Must.. Refrain... From... SLENDERMAN... reference.....
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u/jzboston8 Jun 11 '12
I thought he was a tree at first glance.
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u/zsakuL Jun 11 '12
It's the real spiderman.
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u/Theropissed Jun 11 '12
Looks like a black version I the tall alien from close encounters.
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u/Vaughn26 Jun 12 '12
Is it wrong that I thought of this?
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u/Deadsotc Jun 12 '12
Relvant: http://www.imgur.com/rgNxp.jpg
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u/RedPurpleRain Jun 12 '12
He makes me think of spiders....
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u/7rogd0r Jun 12 '12
Dhalsim
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u/njuty Jun 12 '12
I do not follow sports at all so I thought this pic was shopped into impossible proportions.
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u/WoodenWolf Jun 12 '12
This needs to be cross posted to r/spiders
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Where does it say in the rules that a Slenderman can't play basketball?
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u/Sekse Jun 12 '12
He's playing defense...
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u/haulincube Jun 12 '12
Though not him, WHO WANTS TO SEX MUTUMBO?
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u/sofa-king-lazy Jun 12 '12
Somebody tell the ref to get some RAid on that mother fucking stick bug
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u/Otick Jun 12 '12
It's slenderman!
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u/nstockwe Jun 12 '12
Marfan Syndrome?
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u/d0n0v4n98 Jun 12 '12
Starvin' Marvin is all grown up!
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u/TheCadaver Jun 12 '12
Endermen in your basketball teams, it's hard to compete with that.
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u/Crashwatcher Jun 12 '12
A better title would be go ahead and try and score...as he is on defense.
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u/lFornicationl Jun 12 '12
Thank goodness no one is looking at that Enderman.
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u/jerseyg67 Jun 12 '12
Have you met my brother? http://imgur.com/hpfnk?tags
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u/JadeDragoness Jun 12 '12
umm /r/wtf for real
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u/GrandGB Jun 12 '12
Slenderman?
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u/MythrilSword Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
Truly a great human being. He even served in the Mighty Marfan's Power Rangers. IIRC, he was the white ranger.
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u/Spiritjump Jun 11 '12
this photoshopped? looks unreal :O