He is different. You see it in the lines of his maple-colored face, the high hair, the drooping shorts.
You hear it by talking to him about issues of the day that aren't related to shooting percentages or slam dunks.
Joakim Noah is not your typical Division I basketball player.
Noah, the freshman Florida center, is young and developing, full of energy and promise.
Noah the person is complex, multi-cultural, thoughtful, open to new experiences and new ideas.
He is the multi-racial son of a model-turned-sculptor and a tennis professional-turned-pop music star. And when Noah checks in this afternoon off the bench when Florida plays South Carolina, it will be the continuation of a basketball education that began in France and was honed in playgrounds and gyms in New York City.
"Every game is a learning experience for me," Noah said.
So was his upbringing. Celebrity was on both sides of his family. Cecilia Rodhe, his mother, was a former Miss Sweden in 1978. His father, African-born French tennis star Yannick Noah, was a 1983 French Open champion who was recently inducted in the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
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