Duke Basketball Report · Oct 20, 2020
You Tube Gold: Manute Bol
Photo by Dick Raphael/NBAE via Getty ImagesWhen Manute Bol showed up in the US, no one really knew what to expect. A 7-7 Dinka tribesman, his people were governed by Sudan and subject to the political divides there.
He came to the US from a pastoral life and quickly won people over with his character and personality.
After an odd chain of events, he ended up at D-II Bridgeport for a season before applying for the NBA Draft a second time (he did it improperly the first time) because he wanted to get his sister out of Sudan. It wasn’t the last selfless thing he would do.