Boban Marjanovic Rumors

Compounding the problem is that this kind of extreme height often comes as a surprise. Pearson’s father is 6’10”, but Fall’s mother and father are 5’8″ and 6’0″, respectively. And Marjanovic’s parents? Asked about them during the first few minutes of his interview with B/R, he said he didn’t know. So he called his mom, and after a few minutes of conversation and conversion, it was determined that she and his father are 5’6″ and 5’9″, respectively. “Basically, I come from other planet,” Marjanovic says. “Like Superman, from Krypton. I don’t show my power because I want to play basketball. I will”—and here he makes a whistling flying noise—”fly off when I retire.”

Traveling is trouble, too. When he was playing professionally in Europe, Boban had a strategy for switching to an exit-row seat if the team didn’t secure one for him. He’d walk to the exit row and stand as contortedly as he could. Then he’d ask, starting with the passenger in the window seat on one side and moving from person to person across the aisle until someone was sympathetic enough to swap seats. “They would give me like 80 percent of the time,” he says.