Catholic Central High School located in Ontario, Canada has a pretty good center in Jonathan Nicola. He's 6'9" and has a pretty sweet jumper. However, it turns out he has another advantage playing against "other" high schoolers. He's not actually 17 like he says he is. Nicola is a 30-year old man —- come on, his facial hair and older look didn't give it away? —- from South Sudan according to the Windsor Star.
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Nicola has been arrested for violating the Immigration Refugee Protection Act, and is believed to be 30 years old. For the last six months, he has been posing as a 17-year-old student, and was even living with his basketball coach. That's not weird or incredibly disturbing at all (except for the fact that it is).
How no one could figure out for six months that this guy was a 30-year old man is beyond me. Maybe he has some Greg Oden qualities, but there should have been some background checking going on, obviously. This might be the most brazen attempt to go back to high school that I have ever seen and it almost paid off for Nicola too.
[h/t Deadspin]
