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Re: NBA Pre Draft Measurement
Originally Posted by AtTheDriveIn
I've heard of some reports that KG is actually taller then 6'11.
Dirk and Duncan are both 6'10.
Amare and Emeka are 6'8.
Bosh is 6'9, 6'10.
Not sure about Boozer, but the guys you've named are all taller then 6'7.
I thought Dirk was 7...
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Re: NBA Pre Draft Measurement
Originally Posted by DetroitBadBoys
I thought Dirk was 7...
Dirk is 6'10"
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Re: NBA Pre Draft Measurement
this thread is like one of those projects when you dont know what to do so you just get all the info on the topic of the project that you can find, slap it together, and hope the teach passes you.
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Re: NBA Pre Draft Measurement
Kidd was measured 6'2 3/4 barefoot in the Olympics years ago.
Here are some other measurements from the Olympics(barefoot)
Shareef Abdur Rahim 6'7 1/2
Gary Payton 6'2 3/4
Vin Baker 6'9 3/4
Allan Houston 6'4 3/4
Alonzo Mourning 6'9
Ray Allen 6'3 1/2
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Re: NBA Pre Draft Measurement
Many of these height variations can be accounted for the fact that they often measure players with shoes on. Also, they round up to the nearest inch. Few of these heights are straight up lies.
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Re: NBA Pre Draft Measurement
Many players in NBA are telling tall stories
New Jersey Nets center Jason Collins is listed at 7-feet tall in the NBA's player guide.
Truth be told, Collins needs a boost to even come close.
"In sneakers, with my orthotics, ankle braces and two pairs of socks, I'm a good 6-111/2," said a chuckling Collins, whose Nets trail the San Antonio Spurs 2-1 in the best-of-seven NBA Finals heading into tonight's Game 4 in New Jersey. "It's almost a joke."
Collins, who's more like 6-foot-8, isn't the only basketball player telling a tall tale.
Many NBA hopefuls exaggerate their height while in high school or college to make themselves more appealing to coaches and scouts who prefer taller players. Collins, for example, remembers the exact day he picked to experience a growth spurt.
"Media day, my junior year," the Stanford graduate said. "I told our sports information guy that I wanted to be 7 feet and it's been 7 feet ever since."
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Collins isn't fooling any of his teammates.
Four-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year Dikembe Mutombo, a legitimate 7-foot-2, said he and Collins don't exactly see eye-to- eye.
"They're giving him 4 inches," Mutombo said. "There are a lot of guys who list heights that they are not."
Mutombo said Larry Johnson, the former Charlotte Hornets and New York Knicks forward, was among the most grandiose exaggerators. While at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Johnson was purportedly 6- foot-7. At the NBA's annual pre-draft camp, however, he barely topped 6-3.
"When guys are checked out in Chicago, it's the amazing shrinking measurement," said Marty Blake, the NBA's director of scouting.
The NBA doesn't measure players, which is probably why 1993 Most Valuable Player Charles Barkley got away with being listed at 6-foot- 6. Many who played against Barkley said he was, at most, 6- 4.
Several active players, including Philadelphia 76ers point guard Allen Iverson, are also practicing fuzzy measurement.
Officially, the league's 2001 MVP is listed at 6-foot-1.
"There's no way," Spurs forward Malik Rose said. "He's like 5- 11."
Rose, who's listed at 6-foot-7, admits to having fibbed about his height. Rose said he's actually 6-6, but felt he needed another inch or two in order to entice NBA scouts to consider an undersized forward from Drexel University.
"Nobody's going to go see a 6-6 center from a low-level Division I school so they gave me that one inch that helped," Rose said.
NBA spokesman Tim Frank said the league counts on its teams to give accurate measurements of their players, who don't necessarily need to change their height.
Victor Dolan, head of the chiropractic division at Doctors' Hospital in New York, said players can increase their height by getting measured early in the morning because vertebrae get compressed as the day progresses. A little upside-down stretching doesn't hurt, either.
"If you get measured on an inversion machine, and do it when you first wake up, maybe you could squeeze out an extra inch-and-a- half," Dolan said.
I know he was 7 feet, but Walt thought it made him look extraordinarily tall, Blake said.
Spurs veteran Steve Kerr laughed when asked which players lied most about their height. He cited the now-defunct World Basketball League, which originally permitted only players under 6-foot-5.
Kerr said aspiring NBA players, many of whom were listed at 6-8 and over, wound up honing their skills in the WBL.
They lost 4 inches in a six-month period, said Kerr, who is listed at -- and actually stands -- 6-foot-3.
Former NBA All-Star Nate Tiny Archibald, who grew up in New York, said no one he played with or against cared that he was 6-foot-1 while he was zipping past defenders on the asphalt courts.
In the city, it wasn't how tall you were, he said. It was about developing a rep.
Plenty of NBA teams will be interested in free-agent point guard Earl Boykins, who at 5-foot-5 is the shortest player in the league this season.
Boykins, who averaged 8.8 points as a reserve for the Golden State Warriors this season, said it's about time general managers and scouts abandon their bigger-is-better mentality.
The NBA is so biased toward guys that are taller, Boykins said. Either you can play or you can't.
The NBA's top official isn't about to call for league-mandated measurements of players. Commissioner David Stern, whose height isn't listed in the NBA guide but was once estimated at 5-foot-9, said the disparity between reality and hype only adds to the intrigue of the game.
If they told you the exact heights they would have to eliminate you, Stern said. It's one of the best-kept secrets in sports.>
Last edited by Lebron23; 05-22-2007 at 12:43 PM.
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2000-2006 NBA Pre Draft Measurement
http://canadahoops.blogspot.com/2007...ents-2002.html
2003 NBA Pre Draft Measurement
http://collegebasketballnews.scout.com/2/115362.html
http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindbla...%20Results.xls
2007 NBA Pre Draft Measurement
http://www.ibiblio.org/craig/draft/1...t/summary.html
1995 NBA Pre Draft Measurement
Players height and weight are those obtained at the Chicago pre-
draft camp. For fun I've included the USAToday Mock draft and the
Chris Monter Mock draft (from the Monter Draft News).
1998 NBA Pre Draft Measurement
http://thehrr.com/Samples/june'98.pdf
The barefoot heights are the heights with the *
So from the 1998 draft
Guards
Vince Carter 6'5 1/2 219 pounds
Rafaer Alston 6'1 3/4 170.5 pounds
Ricky Davis 6'5 1/2 201 pounds
Larry Hughes 6'4 1/2 183.5 pounds
Mike Bibby 6'1 194 pounds
Bonzi Wells 6'5 213 pounds
Tyronn Lue 6'0 178 pounds
Forwards
Ruben Patterson 6'5 224 pounds
Brian Skinner 6'9 255 pounds
Brad Miller 6'11 255.5 pounds
Matt Harpring 6'6.5 231 pounds
Pat Garrity 6'9 237 pounds
Robert Traylor 6'7.5 288.5 pounds
Rashard Lewis 6'9 220 pounds(listed height not official measured height)
Antawn Jamison 6'7 3/4 230.5 pounds
Raef Lafrentz 6'11 1/2 235 pounds
Al Harrington 6'8 220 pounds(listed height not official measured height)
Paul Pierce 6'6 229.5 pounds
Centers
Jahidi White 6'9 293 pounds
Michael Doleac 6'11 269 pounds
Nazr Mohammed 6'10 221 pounds
Jerome James 6'11 1/2 315 pounds
Michael Olowokandi 6'11 3/4 269 pounds
Last edited by Lebron23; 10-08-2007 at 11:45 PM.
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Re: NBA Pre Draft Measurement
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Mike Conley and Aaron Brroks can get UPPPPP for some little guys.
I still can't believe Durant 0 bench presses!! Wow
I'm an Aaron Brooks and Oregon Ducks fan, I hope he goes 2 a team I can actually follow.
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Re: NBA Pre Draft Measurement
Antoine Walker 6'7 3/4 and 7'0 Shaquille O'Neal
Michael Jordan 6'4 and 7'5 Yao Ming
Shaquille O'Neal 7'0 and Dwyane Wade 6'3 3/4
6'1 Ben Gordon and 6'5 Ben Wallace
Ben Wallace Height is very enigmatic i do not know whether he is 6'5 or 6'7. I mean he was billed at 6'9, Ben does not look taller than the 6'1 Ben Gordon and Sophomore Tyrus Thomas who is a legit 6'7 1/4 is 2 1/4 inches taller than Wallace.
Tyrus Thomas 6'7 1/4 and Ben Wallace
According to his Biography
How do figure a guy like Ben Wallace? He turns down a big-time football scholarship to play hoops at a community college, makes the NBA as a walk-on, then goes from 12th man on a bad team to an All-Star starter on a championship contender. Ben got where he is today with old-fashioned tenacity—you might say he’s a “fro-back,” not to mention the most valuable forward in basketball. This is his story…
GROWING UP
Ben Wallace was born September 10, 1974, in White Hall, Alabama. The 10th of 11 children, and the youngest of eight brothers, he spent his early childhood in nearby Benton, which was declared the smallest town in America back in the 1960s. Later, the family moved to White Hall. Ben’s mother, Mama Sadie, was the family matriarch—her word was law, and none of the Wallace boys dared to defy her. She raised food and a small cotton crop near the house, and made all the clothes for her family. Resourcefulness and hard work were a way of life, lessons which Ben took to heart.
There was not a lot of extra cash in the Wallace home (they never had a car and were the last family in the area to get electricity), so all the kids had to pitch in. When Ben and his brothers wanted spending money, they picked pecans or bailed hay for local farmers.
Ben spent a lot of time with his siblings fishing and playing basketball. They had put up a rim on the side of their tiny, three-bedroom house, and with so many kids around, it was easy to get together games of three-on-three and four-on-four. The battles could get mighty fierce. Because he was usually the smallest kid on the court, the only way Ben ever got his hands on the rock was by rebounding it, stealing it, or saving it from going out of bounds. Incredibly, he is still the smallest boy in the family all these years later.
Ben—who would eventually grow to 6-7 and 240 pounds (he’s listed at 6-9, but that’s counting his hair)—was a strong, wiry kid who excelled at baseball, football and basketball. By the time he graduated from Central High School in Hayneville, he would earn All-State honors in each of these sports. He also ran track.
As a teenager, Ben liked to handle the basketball. He fancied himself as a new-age hybrid, blending the skills required by each different position. Sometimes he would take over games and actually play every position, much to the chagrin of his teammates and the annoyance of his coaches. Although Ben liked to boast he could shoot like Isiah, pass like Magic and dunk like Michael, the reality was something short of that.
http://www.jockbio.com/Bios/Wallace/Wallace_bio.html
Last edited by Lebron23; 07-17-2007 at 05:28 PM.
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