“It’s just about how many times he can get up and down in a matter of a game or a few minutes.” He moved adequately on the court, but only in short bursts. When Bobroczkyi arrived in Ohio, his flexibility was, Strausser said, “rough.” His lower back was hurting. Aside from the basketball court, with floorboards ripped from Quicken Loans Arena (where the N.B.A.’s Cleveland Cavaliers play), and the health-conscious cafeteria, Spire is also close to the Cleveland Clinic, which assigned a dietitian to assist with Bobroczkyi’s nutrition.

That is one reason he left Europe to come here to the Spire Institute, a 750,000-square-foot facility on 170 acres in the solitude of Ohio wine country. And then there is his weight.Įating enough to fuel his eight-foot wingspan and gain the muscle needed to sustain a career is a daily ordeal. He developed scoliosis at a young age, which gives him lower-back trouble, and though he has stopped growing, his hips have been left misaligned by several inches. But unlike the hulking Muresan and the shot-blocking Bol, Bobroczkyi is modeling his far-from-developed game off that of Knicks forward Kristaps Porzingis, who at 7-3 has redefined how a player of that length can handle the nimbleness and fluidity of the modern game.īobroczkyi is also learning that the one thing no coach can teach - height - will not guarantee him a future in pro basketball. tomorrow, he would join his Romanian countryman Gheorghe Muresan and Muresan’s contemporary Manute Bol, who also played at 7-7, as the tallest men to play in the league. This is life at 7 feet 7 inches, with the world at your size 17 feet.

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