Basketball's pint-sized prodigy walking tall

He is just 4 feet 5 inches tall, but 11-year-old Julian Newman has already proved that height is not a big factor in basketball, a sport traditionally dominated by tall men.

Starting point guard Newman stands waist high next to other players on his Florida high school basketball team but his talent towers over the competition.

At only 11, Newman leads the state of Florida in assists per game this season and ranks fifth nationally, according to Maxpreps.com, which maintains statistics on high school sports.

A video of Newman's game highlights and dribbling stunts posted in December on YouTube went viral, currently logging nearly 3 million viewers.