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Manute Bol (; October 16, 1962 – June 19, 2010) was a Sudanese-born American basketball player and political activist. Listed at tall, he was one of the two tallest players in the history of the National Basketball Association, along with Gheorghe Mureșan. He was officially measured and listed at tall in the Guinness Book of World Records. He is believed to have been born on October 16, 1962 in either Turalei or Gogrial, Sudan (now South Sudan). He was the son of a Dinka tribal elder who gave him the name "Manute", which means "special blessing". Bol played for two colleges and four NBA teams over his career. A center, he was known as a specialist player; he was considered among the best shot-blockers in the history of the sport, but other aspects of his game were considered fairly weak. Over the course of his career, Bol blocked more shots than he scored points, making him the only NBA player ever to do so. He is second all-time in NBA history in terms of average blocked shots per game, and ranks 15th on the career blocks list. ==Early life and family background== Manute Bol was born to Madut and Okwok Bol in Turalei (or Gogrial) and raised near Gogrial. He came from a family of extraordinarily tall men and women: "My mother was , my father , and my sister is ", he said. "And my great-grandfather was even taller—." His ethnic group, the Dinka, and the Nilotic people of which they are a part, are among the taller populations of the world. Bol's hometown, Turalei, is the origin of other exceptionally tall individuals, including basketball player Ring Ayuel. Ayuel is a refugee from the civil war which broke out soon after Bol emigrated to the US and which eventually led to the destruction of most of Turalei. He tended his family's cattle in boyhood. According to a tale he was often asked to repeat in interviews, he once killed a lion with a spear after it attacked his cows. The lion was asleep, though he was often encouraged to embellish the story. He started playing basketball only at about age 15. Complementing his great height, Bol possessed exceptionally long limbs (inseam ), large hands and feet (size 16 ). His arm span, at , is (as of 2013) the longest in NBA history, and his reach was .〔 He was extremely slender, limiting his offensive capability. When he arrived in the United States, he weighed and had gained just under by the time he entered the NBA. The Washington Bullets sent Bol to strength training with University of Maryland coach Frank Costello, where he could initially lift only on 10-rep bench press and on 10-rep squat (his BMI was 15.3 and he initially had a 31" (80 cm) waist). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Manute Bol」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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