The folks at Bleacher Report went to meet the tallest player available in this week’s NBA draft, 7’5″ Sim Bhullar. This is a great insight into his life and possible career.
On Thursday night the great, the good and the downright rubbish of the NBA will assemble in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn for the 2014 draft.
Cleveland, yet again, have the first pick but the class that is coming into the league this year is among the best in decades and the first 10 players, or more, have real star potential. A few more that are currently relatively unheralded will also make the most of their talents and become NBA starters too and a New Mexico State player called Sim Bhullar is hoping to be one of them.
Bhullar hails from Canada, where his Indian parents moved in the 1980s. If he makes it to the NBA, Bhullar would be the first predominantly Indian player in the league.
With a 7’9″ wingspan, and a 9′ standing reach, he has huge physical advantages if he can live with the pace and skill of the pro game. That will be Bhullar’s biggest challenge, and the video also looks at the work he is doing at a pre-draft camp in Las Vegas to get in shape in the hope of getting a late pick.
He really seems like a good kid, with a lot of the basics that an NBA pro needs. We’ll certainly be keeping an eye out for him tomorrow night.
