At 7-foot-9, Canada’s Olivier Rioux is world’s tallest teen, intriguing basketball project
At seven-foot-nine, Olivier Rioux is two inches taller than former NBA giants Gheorghe Muresan and Manute Bol. He embraces the attention and welcomes the stares. Rioux has worked hard but no one expects him to be a Division 1 star, certainly not right away.
