The Stellazzurra Basketball Academy in Italy has a great, but unusual, problem on their hands. They’re working with an incredible talent from Romania named Robert Bobroczkyi. He’s 15, and he’s already 7’6(!!!). And as you can see in this highlight reel, he has some skills:
Italian basketball team bulks up their 7’6, 184-pound center with 2 pounds of pasta a day
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But if you watch those highlights you see the problem: He’s skinny. Despite being 7’6, he’s only 184 pounds. 5’9 Isaiah Thomas of the Boston Celtics, by comparison, is listed at 185 pounds.
So to bulk Bobroczkyi up for future competition, the academy is putting him on an aggressive diet. Andrew Dampf of the Associated Press has all the incredible details, here are some of the highlights:
- He’s eating seven meals a day.
- Three of those meals involve pasta. In total, he eats 2.2 pounds of pasta per day.
- He doesn’t get to eat McDonald’s. :(
Bobroczkyi is in Italy, so there shouldn’t be any shortage of pasta for him to eat, but if there’s one guy who could cause a pasta shortage in Italy, it’s probably this guy.
