Is Tacko ‘Taco’ Fall the Tallest High School Basketball Player in the World?

Standing at 7' 4", Tacko "Taco" Fall is one high school student that is certainly hard to miss. He's also believed to be the tallest prep basketball player in the U.S., if not the world.

"Everywhere I go, people want to take pictures, talk to me, shake my hand, but I'm getting used to it now," said Fall, a junior at Liberty Christian Prep in Tavares, Fla., according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Fall, who wears a size 22 shoe and has an 8-foot wingspan, arrived in Florida from Dakar, Senegal with little to no organized basketball experience. However, that changed when he began working with former Orlando Magic center Pat Burke, who runs a training facility in the area and helped steer Fall to Liberty Chrisitan, reports Yahoo Sports.

Fall, who is taller than the NBA's tallest player Hasheem Thabeet of the Oklahoma City Thunder, 7' 3", averaged 11.1 points, 5.0 rebounds and 1.3 blocks for the Lions (11-15) this winter.

"Everywhere I go, people are going to be scared, because they say I'm 7-4," Fall told the Sentinel. "But if I don't play like a big man, they may not be scared of me. They're going to say, 'This guy is soft.' So, I have to play like a big man, be aggressive on the post, ask for the ball and work on my hook shot."

Despite his promising athletic career, Fall says that he doesn't plan to put all of his eggs in one basket just in case things don't work out with the NBA. "I'm hoping to play professional basketball, but at the same I time I want to be a biochemist," he said.