The 7-foot giant of Ngleshie Amanfro: Seven-foot Ghanaian Ephraim Saawa dreams of joining the national basketball team

"By the time I reached senior high school, my dream was to play basketball rather than volleyball," he recalled.

The young Senior High School graduate wants to turn the curious looks into cheers in a basketball arena.

At Magic, he is learning to convert his natural attributes the long legs that power high vertical jumps for rebounds, the long strides that allow quick first steps for drives to the basket into real basketball Footwork, positioning, shooting, and defending.