The Purdue 7-foot-4 centre from Toronto surprises those who doubted his prowess as an athlete, said Northern Kings’ Vidal Massiah
With scissors in hand, the towering 7-foot-4 Canadian centre pushed aside a ladder and did the job flat-footed, reaching up with his long arms to ceremoniously clip the netting from the hoop. The man dominating U.S. college basketball’s national spotlight celebrated the Big Ten conference title with his Purdue teammates, a squad headed to this week’s NCAA tournament as a No. 1 seed.
Vidal Massiah, a Toronto native who played NCAA basketball at St. Bonaventure University, pro overseas and for Canada’s national team, shed light on Edey’s journey this week. Massiah is the executive director of the Toronto-area program Northern Kings, which has propelled several Canadians to NCAA basketball scholarships, including Edey. U.S. media have been calling and visiting the coach lately in droves to get Edey’s story, Massiah says, but Canadians not so much.
“The gym was packed for tryouts, and everyone was staring at this kid. I was blown away from what I was seeing, I was in total shock,” Massiah said. “I soon told his mom, ‘your kid’s an NBA talent,’ and her jaw dropped like ‘what are you talking about?’” Edey developed a lot with Northern Kings, and Massiah recommended he leave for IMG Academy, an elite multisport school in Bradenton, Fla. Massiah’s old coach at Bonaventure, Brian Nash, was the basketball director there, and IMG accepted Edey for Grade 11. Basketball was still new to him, but it would become the centre of Edey’s regimented new life on a world-class campus in the United States.
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