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Big things come to those who wait

By Ryan Canner-O'Mealy
ESPN RISE Magazine

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Josh Smith is big. Really big. The stories of Smith's prodigious size sound mythical. Too crazy to be true. In kindergarten, he was taller than his teacher. In second grade, he couldn't get into his class on the first day as the teacher told him repeatedly that the fifth-grade classroom was upstairs. By the time he really was in the fifth grade, he had outgrown every desk in the elementary school, so one had to be imported from the local junior high. While everyone else put their books and pe ...

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