LOS ANGELES – The registrar at Centennial High called the basketball office.
She told Josh Giles, the coach, that a student was there with his parents, and that he wanted to play basketball and that he was in the IB program. That’s International Baccalaureate, reserved for the advanced of the advanced.
Giles rolled his eyes. In his mind he pictured Sheldon Cooper, from “The Big Bang Theory.”
“Coach, I think you’re going to want to come down here,” the registrar repeated.
So Giles did. And he met a 6-foot-7 fellow, 14 years old, with very long arms and wide shoulders.