7-foot-3 8th grader is the stuff of kids' basketball nightmares

 By 
Sam Laird
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Seven-foot-three is extremely tall for an NBA player. It's massive for a college player. It's insanely gigantic for a high school player.

But for an 8th grader? It's downright surreal. Yet here we have a young man named Chol Marial, an 8th grader who stands a reported seven-foot-three, dunking on poor children everywhere, left and right.

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Marial hails from Sudan, according to Slam, and now lives in Florida. He reportedly played for the West Oaks High School varsity team as an 8th grader this past season, and also suits up for the Team Florida club squad.

He is, as you can see in the YouTube video embedded above, absolutely huge. But that's not the scariest part -- no, the really crazy thing is he can actually move despite that height and his pubescent age.

Look at him run the floor with ease. Look at him play basketball like he knows what he's doing. Look at him throw down a between-the-legs dunk. Marial should graduate high school in ... wait for it ... 2019.

As for those other unfortunate kids sharing the court with Marial, we can only assume he haunts their dreams at night, visions of swatted layups and spiked slam-dunks roiling their slumbers.

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