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At 7 ft three inches (2.21metres), Hasheem Thabeet towered tall over his generation team colleagues at the University of Connecticut college basketball squad. But for the heavyweight center Thabeet, who became the 1st Tanzanian basketball player to play in NBA when he was enlisted by the Memphis Grizzles last July, living in the fast lane is a far-cry from the weeks he worked as a club bouncer in the capital of Tanzania to supplement his meager revenue as a half-time club player.
