After entertaining thoughts of becoming the country’s second tallest baseball player, to Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Randy Johnson, 6-9 Ahmad Nivins dropped baseball as his primary sport and recently started concentrating on basketball.

“I just picked up basketball about a year or so ago at this time and I had been playing baseball all of my life up until that time,” Nivins told TechSideline.com. ”I didn’t feel that my height was a problem because Randy Johnson and Richie Sexton play baseball and they are pretty good. I just started watching NBA games more and just started liking basketball more and I am having more fun with that now.”

The 210-pound senior Center/Forward averaged a modest 6 points and 7 rebounds a game last year coming off the bench for nationally known St. Anthony’s HS in Jersey City (NJ). Nivins expects those figures to improve this year and if the attention that he is garnering on the recruiting trail is an indication, his thoughts are not without foundation.

Nivins has five primary schools that he is looking at, with several others still in the hunt.

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