Enes Kanter generally doesn’t look like a kid. Listed at 6-foot-11 and 245 pounds, the Oklahoma City Thunder center has the size and strength to score easily in the post in the NBA. For the first time in his adult life, though, he appeared to be a very tiny human on Thursday in an Atlanta suburb:

That’s Kanter with fellow Turkish tall person Sultan Kösen at a school opening. While Kanter is a very, very tall person, Kösen is a very, very, very, very, very tall person. At 8-foot-3, he is recognized as the tallest person in the world.

As you might expect, Kanter was amused by the situation. He tweeted a photo of the two of them and suggested that the Thunder sign Kösen:

Kösen did actually have a brief basketball career. As detailed in Rafe Bartholomew’s story about early NBA draft blogs for Grantland, he was discovered by Turkish club Galatasaray when he was 7-foot-11 and still growing. The team eventually signed him, but medical problems derailed his career.

The Guinness World Records “only knows of 10 confirmed or reliable cases in history” of people over 8 feet tall, according to its website. For everyone at the Fulton Science Academy, then, this was a big day.

Source: http://www.cbssports.com/