High school basketball star Jonathan Nicola is 30 years old

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An African man who has emerged as a basketball star at a high school in Canada is supposedly 30 years old.

Jonathan Nicola, who left South Sudan and arrived in Windsor, Ontario last November, was arrested Wednesday at the Canadian border. The Windsor Star reports that Nicola was still being held by the Canada Border Services Agency as of Wednesday afternoon for allegedly contravening the Immigration Refugee Protection Act. The agency did not elaborate on what Nicola was accused of doing.


Nicola said back in January that he turned 17 on Nov. 25, 2015. He also spoke about diseases and war in his home country of South Sudan and the long process he went through to obtain a Canadian student visa.


“A few of my friends know of my background, how we live over there,” Nicola explained at the time. “I don’t know how many of them have a clue of how it is in Africa. With the war going on, terrorism and all this, they make it real double hard (to obtain a visa).”


Authorities believe Nicola is 30. Catholic Central High School spokesman Stephen Fields said the school cannot comment on Nicola’s case.


“Generally I can tell you that we have a system of checks and balances in place that whenever international students are coming into any of our schools, we make sure that they have all of the necessary government documentation that they require in order to be in one of our schools,” said Fields. “Again, generally speaking, if we felt at any time that there is any kind of threat to any of our students at any of our schools, then we would act appropriately.”


Nicola stands at 6-foot-9 and is enrolled as an 11th grader. Catholic Central basketball coach Pete Cusumano said a few months ago that he believes Nicola has a shot at going pro.


Whenever we hear that minors who are playing sports have lied about their age, there is one story that comes to mind. You have feel sorry for Nicola for the situation he came from, but there are going to be a lot of furious people if it is determined that he is, in fact, a 30-year-old man.
 

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If he is already 30 his NBA career is already over.featherweight champion
 

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i dunno..now that he's been arrested i would say HE IS ready for the nba
 
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Watch them file sex offender charges if he messed around with a hs girl while pretending to be 17. Funny stuff.

I remember seeing Greg Oden in high school many times and I could have sworn that dude was 40. If it came out, I wouldn't even be shocked. Especially his hs coach is known for his extreme shadiness. Obviously, Greg Oden and Michael Conley just happened to be in that school district? LOL. Oden was born in Buffalo and raised in Terre Haute.
 

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Canadian high school basketball star claims he did not know his real age.....LMAO

Jonathan Nicola, the star high school basketball player in Canada who is under investigation for possibly lying about his age, claims that the misunderstanding is due to him not knowing his real age.

Nicola was a star player for Catholic Central Secondary School in Windsor, but he was arrested at the Canadian border and has been held by immigration since April 15. He was traveling to the US with his team when border services were alerted that his fingerprints matched that of someone who tried to make a refugee claim in the US, The Toronto Star reports.

According to information shared at a hearing, Nicola’s visa application and passport to Canada listed his birthday as Nov. 25, 1998. However, his documents for the US listed his birthday as Nov. 1, 1986.

Nicola says the issue is his mother never told him his birthday.

“I always keep asking what is the specific age that I was born, and she has told me that she could not remember,” Nicola said at a recent hearing.
“Over (in South Sudan) . . . not every year we study . . . we always keep moving to different schools, and over there, they do not ask your age. They do not ask you nothing,” Nicola said.

If Nicola’s story hardly seems believable, it’s for good reason. He applied for a visa to the US in Nairobi that was denied in April 2015. He was applying to enter the US on a full scholarship.

Does it seem at all suspicious that six months later he headed to Canada on a student visa to attend a school on a full scholarship? The question is how did Nicola get his documents to play ball in Canada. He says he met someone who helped him with his application.

At 6-foot-9, Nicola was a stellar player for his high school. His coach thought the supposed 11th grade had a chance to go pro.
 

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He is probably telling the truth, he doesn't know "exactly" how old he is...
 

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