THE administrator of Australian NBA draft pick Thon Maker’s former basketball club has poured cold water on suggestions the new Milwaukee Buck is older than he says.

Maker, who says he is 19 but has faced questions he is much older after images yesterday surfaced from an old school yearbook, played for St George Basketball in Sydney in 2011.

Club administrator Anna Pazanin said she sighted his passport when he was registered with Basketball New South Wales in 2011.

“I saw his passport, I had the passport in my hand,” Pazanin said.

“We need some form of ID and his passport was produced as that form of ID, it had his name date of birth and picture.

“He wouldn’t have been able to play in our comp if he wasn’t back then U16.

“He was definitely at the right age when playing for St George Basketball.”

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Ms Pazanin said she had not seen the Reddit pictures that purport Maker graduated from Aranmore Catholic College in Perth in 2010, but said she had faced several questions from media, including from the US, over his age.

“He’s just a tall kid,” she said.

“When he played U16s, that’s how tall he was.

“Just leave the kid alone, he’s worked so hard.”

A video posted on /r/nba, purported to be from an “anonymous Aranmore college pupil” shows a school yearbook from Aranmore Catholic College in 2010.

In the video the “Bucks fan”, who claims he went to school with Maker, flicks through to a page showing a photograph of a person with the name Thon Maker underneath, before the camera is then moved to the opposite page, entitled “Graduating class of 2010”.

Students who graduate from high school are usually 17 or 18, giving rise to claims Maker could actually be closer to age 23 or 24, as some NBA sources believed on draft day.

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The video followed a post by /u/bigcritic with images, purportedlyl of Maker, from the same yearbook.

Neither the video nor the photos show the person’s age.

Several teams have entirely ruled Thon Maker out of the first round due to his age. Multiple sources believe Maker to be 21-23, not 19. — Jake Fischer (@JakeLFischer) June 23, 2016

The fresh claims come less than 24 hours after the towering big man, who migrated from the Sudan to Australia, dismissed any impropriety about his age.

“It did get to me in terms of me hearing about it, but it didn’t get to me personally because if it were true, I’d probably be like sideways about it, but it’s not true, so I’m comfortable,” he told The Boston Globe.

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“I’m not angry or anything. I’ve got to learn what I can say and what I can’t say now.”

An Aranmore college spokeswoman declined to answer questions over Maker’s age, citing privacy issues.

“Due to privacy issues, the college will not disclose personal information about past or present students without written consent from the student,” she said.