Posted on 04/21/2016 11:28:27 AM PDT by fella
At 6'9" and 202 pounds, Jonathan Nicola has the build to make him a dominant force in high school basketball.
However, he is now facing allegations that he is in fact a 30-year-old, which would certainly put his dominance into perspective.
According to Trevor Wilhelm of the Windsor Star, Nicola has allegedly been posing as a 17-year-old 11th-grader at Catholic Central High School (Windsor, Ontario) for the past six months. And basketball is the least of his concerns right now.
Nicola—who had been living with the Comets' coach through the Canada Homestay program—was recently arrested for violating the Immigration Refugee Protection Act. It's not clear what exactly he is being accused of, but he is being detained and will have a hearing next week.
Didn’t know they held back kids anymore.
I didn’t know they had 6’9” illegal mexicans named Nicola.
Sure, he looks 17.
How would that be any different from a man thinking he's a woman?
Dude should claim he’s transgender and could play for the girls team. Shower time is a bonus.
There’s a Kennedy High School in Canada?
Maybe being thirty years old and surrounded by high school age girls was an attraction too. This guy might be in a lot of trouble beyond immigration and the local athletics governing board.
Another LeBron James?
My friend has adopted 4 children from Ethiopia and determining their age is difficult as they don’t have records. But then were talking 5-12 years old.
I knew a kid in 7th grade that was 6’-10” who would have been considered a grown man. Gave all of us regular size kids a bit of a complex in the locker room...
That dude’s so black, he’s almost purple.
Obviously we are discriminating against 30 years old basketball players in high school now. Is he Amish? That would explain why nobody questioned him when he told them he was 17.
Cut him some slack, he has a wife and kids in the stands!
Reminds me of a young Greg Oden
Gee, ya think?
If ‘being detained’ means locked in a jail cell, I’m surprised this guy doesn’t have a lawyer who says that , at the height of 6ft 9in, his client cannot fit into the available cells befitting a humane and compassionate local government. Maybe they tell him, to lie on his cot, or just stay seated inside the cell as much as possible.
Among racist black groups, he would be called a " blue-black"
That would disqualify him. Now if he were a “transsexual” (boy to girl) and played on a girls’ team, there would be no problem, in spite of the fact that he would play better than all the real girls on the team.
Is his name Fernando Valenzuela?
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