Is 7ft 9in teenager Olivier Rioux too tall for basketball?

I am a Spurs fan and will be interested in how another tall player, Victor Wembanyama, will do. Olivier Rioux has a year or two before the NBA but I worry a little about the really tall players health. It is a little painful to even watch Boban Marjanović run up and down the floor.

> I worry a little about the really tall players health. It is a little painful to even watch Boban Marjanović run up and down the floor.

Me too. The knee injury rate for these very tall players is quite high.

Perhaps gigantism combined with already tall genes?

Regardless, I hope he cares for his health. Even NBA money cannot repay decades of post-career years in pain.

Another headline with Imperial measurements. For the non-US world, the height in SI units is 2.36 meters.

Or in this case the non-UK world...