Evidence of Thon Maker's real age has surfaced

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Rough timeline of his journey from Perth schoolboy to NBA lottery pick

200x-2010 Thon Maker is enrolled in Aranmore Catholic College, a high school in Perth. He was part of the 2010 graduating class.

2010-2011 During this time he was discovered by Edmund Smith (should actually be Edward Smith, poster made a mistake), an extremely shady talent scout who worked mainly with Sudanese kids and had a reputation for being controlling. He saw Thon’s size, athleticism and potential but also knew it would never work with him being 18 already and still so raw and skinny.

2011In early 2011, Thon Maker resurfaced as a 14 year old prodigy in Sydney where he joined the local club, St George Saints, an U/16 Division 2 squad. He didn’t attend school at this time and just played basketball, away from anyone who had previously known him and was a way to build credibility around his age. I suspect his age was somehow changed in the transition from Perth to Sydney.

Late 2011-2012 He had gone to camps in the US by this time and the highlight reels of the amazing “8th grader” had started to emerge.


2012-2015 Maker began 8th grade in the 2011-2012 season. Afterwards he was bounced around various schools, at least 3 in the US and a couple as well in Canada.


2016 Edmund Smith’s plan had succeeded and this was the first of his projects to get him a cut of NBA salary. After hearing John Hammond’s responses on the radio I suspect he knew or suspected Thon was older, he just didn’t care. He connected personally with Thon and was willing to invest in his strong intangibles and it was an age range he could work with. Only time will tell if he made the right move. Obviously, being a raw 21-23 year old is completely different from being raw at 19.


TLDR: Thon Maker graduated high school in 2010 in Australia and 6 years later was drafted fresh out of high school. There is strong evidence to suggest Thon Maker could be as old as 23 Discussion is encouraged, happy for others to point out the flaws in this edit: bonus anecdotal evidence found on the web, some from years back which support these claims

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