Basketball coaches normally salivate at the idea of having a player over seven-foot tall. The bigger the better, right?  Not for 7-foot-8 Igor Vovkovinskiy, the tallest man in America.  “I tried basketball,” Vovkovinskiy told Timberwolves.com. “But after 5th or 6th grade, nobody could make shoes for me. I had to stop playing.”  Read more after the jump. Shay Marie x Sabrina B.