Bao Xishun, world's tallest man

Bao Xishun is 7"9... and 56 years old. He managed to pull this hot little number, Xia Shujian, who is half his age and 3/4 his height at 5"6. He looks like some kind of crazy ass Chinese pimp in this picture with that cane. Weird stuff.

Why couldn't Bao just teach himself to play basketball 35 years ago? There is a laundry list of names of guys who played in the NBA who weren't nearly as tall as him and were terrible at basketball.