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MONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J., March 23 (UPI) -- The 19-year-old son of tennis star Yannick Noah is poised to make his national debut in the United States in a high school all-star basketball game.
Joakim Noah is to play in the EA Sports Roundball Classic Wednesday, an all-star game in Chicago for some of the nation's best high school basketball players, USA Today reported.
While his father is revered in France as the first Frenchman to win the French Open in 39 years in 1983, and has gone on to become a reggae singing star, the younger Noah decided at the age of 13 he didn't want to live in France in his father's shadow.
He moved to New York to live with his mother and sister, and with a height then of 6 feet, took to basketball naturally.
Today he stands 6-foot-10.
"I don't want people to think of me as just someone who has a famous father or something like that," the teen said. "I want to do my own thing."
He will play next season at the University of Florida, which he chose over such suitors as Virginia, Maryland and Notre Dame. He wants to study world religions and learn Arabic.
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