Manute Bol is the most inspirational athlete ever for me. Made decent money playing I the 80’s, but a pittance by today’s standards. Certainly not enough to retire after his playing days like an average t athlete of today could. He lived very humbly and gave just about all his money away to Sudanese charities. After his playing career, he willingly had a Celebrity Boxing match with Refrigerator Perry knowing he was going to get murdered in that fight (and he did), but he did it to raise money for his village. There are numerous athletes who give so much of themselves: Warrick Dunn, JJ Watt, Larry Fitzgerald, etc…. I applaud all of them. But Manute Bol is something more than special.
Manute Bol was recruited to play basketball for a small college in Connecticut, The University of Bridgeport where he led the team to national prominence at the Division 2 level. He went on to a career in the NBA and never forgot his origins, and sent significant funds back home to help raise the quality of life there.
Fact 5: Bol coined the term “My Bad.” When he 1st joined the NBA, he couldn’t speak English. So when he messed up on the court, he would say the only two words he knew😂
I want to believe this so much since Manute Bol is one of my all time favourite people and I frequently have no idea what to say in situations other than "my bad"
This man retired from the NBA to live in a village without running water. Everyone in the village used the well he paid for. His home ended up being the biggest in his tribe. Also in his tribe being shorter then 6'4 was strange.
@@reyeseuropeos9153 thats his the age on his contract, his college coach made up an age for him so he would be eligible to play, but even he himself didn't know his own age.
He also helped create the country of Soith Sudan, while playing basketball he was giving orders overseas on what to do in battles they were having. Man was something else, his son is also doing great now to. Bol Bol.
Shhh, I agree and I liked this comment, but think about it this way: If he wasn't disguised as an entertainer there would have been many powerful people who would catch on and do what they could to stop the cash flow to the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement
I can remember seeing him for the first time when he came to Philly. Back then where my drinking days and I was sitting behind the Sixers bench. I reached forward and put my hand on his shoulder, and he just kindly put his hand on my hand and tapped it. Then he said thank you, what a nice guy he was. God bless him.
Well then you Sir are a self entitled arse. Being famous does not mean he is yours to fondle. He may have been polite but you are not. I am sure he'd love nothing more than to tell you what a jerk you were.
I met him when I was working for Greyhound in D.C He came in package express to pick up a package and he didn't look human. He was a giant. He had to duck and bend down to walk through the sliding doors. Nicest guy in the world.
He was the only player who killed a lion, he knocked out his front teeth by jumping up to dunk a basketball, he went to the University of Bridgeport in CT
There's a picture of Manute Bol in a swimming pool, and it's so eerie! I wish Chris Carter would've written an X File episode for him to swim around in a lake and attack people or something! The man looks like a Xenomorph swimming. It's spooky!
Indeed, especially the year-or-so when NBA teams woudn't sign him when he returned to US after having trouble returning from then-Sudan because the corrupt government wanted to silence him. He played hockey and celebrity boxing to rake in more cash for the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement. Someone give this man a post-humous nobel peace prize.
Manute was a good dude and a Philadelphia fan favorite. He hit like 12 threes one game. I remember watching him do it when I was a youngin and I was amazed. He also sent all his earnings back to his tribe in Africa.
A young man I worked with in the 80's was bulked up by his team, they'd put a case of Heineken on his doorstep nightly. He went from low 200 to 285. Graduated and had a short. Run in the USFL and a Heineken addiction.
Fact 5 he was in the nba but it didn’t work out for him for a while so he went to other sports like hockey and soccer but in return they also didn’t work out for them until he decided to back to the nba and it worked out for him
Fact 4: he was a little bit taller than the average person.
Yeah a little
Not much tho
🤏
Really? Had no idea
@@ikhoonyejelem2967 yep
Manute Bol spent most of his money in support of his tribe in Sudan. A very good man he was.
He implemented the Bob Marley model
Is bol bol his son?
@@mdb1010 yessir the only American rich one
@@mdb1010yeah you're right
Manute Bol is the most inspirational athlete ever for me. Made decent money playing I the 80’s, but a pittance by today’s standards. Certainly not enough to retire after his playing days like an average t athlete of today could. He lived very humbly and gave just about all his money away to Sudanese charities. After his playing career, he willingly had a Celebrity Boxing match with Refrigerator Perry knowing he was going to get murdered in that fight (and he did), but he did it to raise money for his village. There are numerous athletes who give so much of themselves: Warrick Dunn, JJ Watt, Larry Fitzgerald, etc…. I applaud all of them. But Manute Bol is something more than special.
But when I get drunk at my job I get fired
Bro you didn’t even have a job
@@6969Sarazzit’s a joke buddy
@@METACITYY I think his was a joke as well buddy
@KING CROSSOVER🐐 yeah buddy
Omfg that was cringe as hell
He still made more threes than Ben Simmons
Who ben Simmons?🤨🤔
Don't you mean brick Simmons
@@ssmain5555 air ball Simmons, but actually he’s getting more confident and better in his game
@@b-bomb917 Oh, that what's up
Def more than Shaq.
Made more threes DRUNK 😂😂😂
One of those kids 10 kids were bol bol
Yeah
no way 😱😱🤯🤯
Omg no way really 😱😱😱🤤🤤
He was 190 pounds, so 4 at best. It's not height, it's weight
I never knew
It's impressive he managed to play even at 55 considering that he died when he was 48
Niece that shit is funny thanks man
Allegedly 48
Because that is the age he was lying about so he would actually get into the NBA since nobody is gonna get a 40+ year old rookie
They don't know how old he was. I don't believe he was that old. Maybe late 30s. But not 55 lol.
Look how skinny those legs are.
Manute Bol was recruited to play basketball for a small college in Connecticut, The University of Bridgeport where he led the team to national prominence at the Division 2 level. He went on to a career in the NBA and never forgot his origins, and sent significant funds back home to help raise the quality of life there.
I worked near his college. Saw Bol at the corner store once.
Good Man he was .
@@lexcoop4657 I went to school there before the days of Manute. I played a lot of basketball on the UB court! I sucked.
I saw him once at the corner of park ave and gregory street about two blocks from UB.
I wonder how many beers it takes for a 7'7 man to get drunk
Well he barely weighed 200 pounds so probably not too many
@@nathanvelotta I agree..but I'm sure he's high every time he stood up..😂
77
Not a 12pk for sure
@@Samestori214 Ah 3...ah 3 😃
RIP, Manute Bol.
Manute Bol and Andre the Giant would've gone nuts together at the bars
Bro
Andre could literally drink 50 beers in a sitting. He was over 500 lbs. Bol was 200. He probably drank like a normal person.
I think Andre was racist though. That's what I heard.
Pause.
he looks sooo good for 55. He looks young as hell. Great genetics. Black never cracks.
Fact 5: Bol coined the term “My Bad.” When he 1st joined the NBA, he couldn’t speak English. So when he messed up on the court, he would say the only two words he knew😂
I want to believe this so much since Manute Bol is one of my all time favourite people and I frequently have no idea what to say in situations other than "my bad"
I was around before Bol got drafted. He didn't coin that phrase.
He loved his people and his country.
Fun fact : He has made more 3s in his career than Tim Duncan and Hakeem Olajuwon
Bol Bol is a deadeye 3 point shooter.
LOL 7 of his 12 years in the NBA he had no 3 point shots.
Check and see how he lines up against Duncan in every other catagory.... He doesn't..
@@kevinrichardson563 what bruh all i said is he made more 3s why u getting mad
@@hezyxhes not mad
The most interesting thing is that he may be the only NBA player ever to have killed a lion with a spear.
Oh wow
Lebron did
I doubt that lol😂😂😂😂
This man retired from the NBA to live in a village without running water. Everyone in the village used the well he paid for. His home ended up being the biggest in his tribe. Also in his tribe being shorter then 6'4 was strange.
Dennis Rodman has entered the chat room 😂
I’m going to be 55 and having hip surgery and he’s out here playing professional basketball😂
He died when he was 48, the yt guy was probably drunk like Manute when he made the video 🕺🏻
You're not very bright
You really think that
No this was when ubwerebin your teens or almost there
@@reyeseuropeos9153 thats his the age on his contract, his college coach made up an age for him so he would be eligible to play, but even he himself didn't know his own age.
He also helped create the country of Soith Sudan, while playing basketball he was giving orders overseas on what to do in battles they were having. Man was something else, his son is also doing great now to. Bol Bol.
I don't know about all of that.
Talk about the positive things that he LIKE DONATE ALL MOST HIS WHOLE NBA SALARY TO HIS COUNTRY,NOW THAT'S WHAT SHOULD BE NO.1
Absolutely
Shhh, I agree and I liked this comment, but think about it this way: If he wasn't disguised as an entertainer there would have been many powerful people who would catch on and do what they could to stop the cash flow to the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement
He also beat Refrigerator Perry in a boxing match. I would've definitely taken the other side.
Wait wat?
@@SnakeyD8468
For real. Google it. I think it was called celebrity boxing.
I knew about all of these facts because I am Manute Bol
Just by looking at his face I feel like he would phrase it the same as you
❤lebron
I can remember seeing him for the first time when he came to Philly. Back then where my drinking days and I was sitting behind the Sixers bench. I reached forward and put my hand on his shoulder, and he just kindly put his hand on my hand and tapped it. Then he said thank you, what a nice guy he was. God bless him.
Ballsy
Well then you Sir are a self entitled arse. Being famous does not mean he is yours to fondle. He may have been polite but you are not. I am sure he'd love nothing more than to tell you what a jerk you were.
I met him when I was working for Greyhound in D.C He came in package express to pick up a package and he didn't look human. He was a giant. He had to duck and bend down to walk through the sliding doors. Nicest guy in the world.
He was the only player who killed a lion, he knocked out his front teeth by jumping up to dunk a basketball, he went to the University of Bridgeport in CT
He hit his mouth on the rim
The lion story turned out to be a joke he said that got misquoted
There's a picture of Manute Bol in a swimming pool, and it's so eerie! I wish Chris Carter would've written an X File episode for him to swim around in a lake and attack people or something! The man looks like a Xenomorph swimming. It's spooky!
Bol Bol🐐
it feels illegal to be this early
🤓🤓🤓
This guy never aged
Another fact that he cared about his county and his people. He sacrificed his own well being to help them.
Indeed, especially the year-or-so when NBA teams woudn't sign him when he returned to US after having trouble returning from then-Sudan because the corrupt government wanted to silence him. He played hockey and celebrity boxing to rake in more cash for the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement. Someone give this man a post-humous nobel peace prize.
U forgot, he also killed a lion with a spear smh
These we’re supposed to be little known facts; that one’s fairly common knowledge lol
he also got punched in the face by MJ
Passage from being a boy to become a Warrior.
Manute was a good dude and a Philadelphia fan favorite. He hit like 12 threes one game. I remember watching him do it when I was a youngin and I was amazed. He also sent all his earnings back to his tribe in Africa.
He died at age 47 so he must have continued his NBA career after death. Respect
I'm totally not believing that he was over 50.
Imagine your annual birthday present is an open wound on your forehead
He knocked out his front teeth trying to dunk also !!! Lol 😂
Fascinating!!!!!!!!!!😮
He also left basketball to go fight a war. I have nothing but respect for this man.
Didnt he average more blocks that points ... the goat
Yes he did. That was what they hired him for.
Wait till that movie comes out! Mmm, I'm thinking Tyrone Gibbins in the lead role. 😮😂
Manute so tall he did a cartwheel and kicked Jesus.😂
He was not the tallest George muresan was 7"7 for the Washington bullets/ wizards
They were the same height 😂
manute was a natural 7-7 gheorge had a tumor which enhanced his growth unaturally
@@xum0007 bol was 7'6 and Shawn Bradley was 7'6 and they played same time George was 7'7 don't care how he got there I'm 6'6 my self.
@@jamanuel5468 no the wasn't him a Shawn Bradley were the same hight at 7'6 they played the same year so Laugh at that dummie
@@kenyattakariem9708 so mature
I love south Sudan 🇸🇸 the language and culture and music 🎶 is awesome
Fact 4: He had his own themed cruise line. Majestic Caribbean He'll be there!
Read that he helped his people alot!! I respect that most of him...
bro hates being sober
“Man I hate being sober” -Chief Keef
1 thing you didn’t know about Manute Bol he skinny af
It’s not hit fault when you freakishly tall
This brother shared his wealth, with his tribe.
Dude could fight too! He whipped JR Reid!
A young man I worked with in the 80's was bulked up by his team, they'd put a case of Heineken on his doorstep nightly. He went from low 200 to 285. Graduated and had a short. Run in the USFL and a Heineken addiction.
Oh yeah what team what position an team did this great brotha play
How would he play in the league at 55 if he didn't even live to that age.
His birthdate was always in dispute.
He died at 47 and retired from the NBA in 1994 16 years before his death.
My hero
I love beer... I'm still 5'6
How and why is there a place you can buy a wife with 80 cows lol
Sudan 🤷♂️
he didnt buy her its just a custom to gift the family of your wife upon the marriage. his wife would have had to agree to it
Hey don't ? Other people's country way of life
The Waffle House has found it’s new host
Charles Barkley called him the Human Fly Swatter.. lmao 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Dude had life
So awesome
He’s literally a king 😂
One of my favorite bullet players,
Ooo I'm telling you said Bullets!🏃
Anyone that gives their son the same first name as their last name (Bol Bol) is automatically Legendary
Nah that shooting form was crazy bro didn’t need to jump 😂
and shot some deep in Curry range
RESPECT MANUTE BOL!!🤨
It was only recently I heard about his role in the liberation of South Sudan. He immediately became one of my all-time favourite human beings.
my favorite
I remembered when Bol Bol dad shot six threes in one game
Back he was playing in Oakland, I saw him driving around the East Bay in his Sentra. The driver's seat was removed and he sat in the rear.
That's crazy lol 😂
Rip Mr BOL bless 🙏💯
That's cool ,I didn't know that
Love Bol
I remember monute BOL....+
Historic Fact! Manute Bol is a descendant of the real ancient Egyptians!
Egyptians are Arabs you dolt.
He is not
Heineken? That's a soda for him.
drinking beers don't get you drunk
Ya it does if you drink to many.
I believe all of these facts, except for 3 of them.
2nd one is pretty fishy and idk if I believe that 😹 but the one about is wife is proven right and the drunk one is as close to confirmed as it can get
Legend
A depressed man committed suicide by jumping off of manute's shoulders
Yes! I thank you for everything. Cardosa reminds me of him. Thank you for all the memories. Giants are real.
Cool dude
He is the reason we say "My Bad."
Fact 5 he was in the nba but it didn’t work out for him for a while so he went to other sports like hockey and soccer but in return they also didn’t work out for them until he decided to back to the nba and it worked out for him
10 future nba players
He also took care of his entire village with the money he made like the whole village
He's also the only NBA player to have a song written and named for him.
That's not true. Easiest example I can think of top of the head is the Be like Mike song.
It’s a crime against humanity to force him to drink Heineken.
I never played a NBA game sober either..
He wasnt the only NBA player to drink beer constantly, Jordan said when he was a rookie his teamates drank beer during half time 😅
Manu-té is the pronunciation, genius.
Bol bol got the genes
Bro plays slenderman in slenderman 😂
The air up there
Saw him play for Warriors against the Jazz. Nailed a bunch of 3's.
The expression "My bad" originated with him.
Fact 4:his kid is Bol Bol
Just thinkif he played H2O polo. Domination!
Bol bol needs a Heineken indorsment deal😂
He came to my school when I was i was in year5
I remember when you first showed up in the league and player's really worked him over , he had to be tough especially that time in the NBA RIp
He was in he's 30s in the NBA manute bol
Wow I didn't know this
I want my cows back 😂😂🤣
Wow that's crazy 😧
And one of those 10 Children would go on to be a budding star on the Magic!