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Death Before Dishonor
Re: Spud Webb - highest vertical in league history?
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Kobe Apostle
Re: Spud Webb - highest vertical in league history?
no, Wilt had a 50" vertical
[color=white]lol[/color]
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Re: Spud Webb - highest vertical in league history?
He certainly had one of the highest verticals in league history for sure.
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Re: Spud Webb - highest vertical in league history?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JILq5kDjZiM
At 1:23, Spud Webb dunks in-game from just inside the dotted circle....SICK
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Re: Spud Webb - highest vertical in league history?
Originally Posted by bwink23
Haha, look how high his head is a la the last dunk..
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NBA rookie of the year
Re: Spud Webb - highest vertical in league history?
If we're talking about players who played even 1 single second in the league, James White has to be a candidate. There's that famous video of him trying to touch the top of the backboard and coming as close as almost anyone I've ever seen (maybe 2 inches away). If his standing reach is 9 feet, this would bring his max vertical at around 46 inches. Does anyone know his actual reach?
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Re: Spud Webb - highest vertical in league history?
I still have a Spud Webb basketball instructional video somewhere at my parents' house. It wasn't very good.
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Re: Spud Webb - highest vertical in league history?
isn't he in the guiness book of world records?
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Clipper Nation Soldier
Re: Spud Webb - highest vertical in league history?
Yes. He's listed at having the highest NBA vertical ever in the record book. It's nearly 47". I think that new Blazers player has an equal vert though.
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Very good NBA starter
Re: Spud Webb - highest vertical in league history?
Originally Posted by Psileas
If we're talking about players who played even 1 single second in the league, James White has to be a candidate. There's that famous video of him trying to touch the top of the backboard and coming as close as almost anyone I've ever seen (maybe 2 inches away). If his standing reach is 9 feet, this would bring his max vertical at around 46 inches. Does anyone know his actual reach?
The angle from the bottom makes him appear to reach higher. He probably wasn't higher than 12'6".
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Re: Spud Webb - highest vertical in league history?
Originally Posted by millwad
Haha, look how high his head is a la the last dunk..
Yeah cause we are amused when even Blake's head hits the backboard... yet Spudd was doing it all the time. Well actually for him to dunk with his small arms he had to get that high. Spudd was really small about 5'5 in the street. I've been to after games where people started munching his head because they were more or less shocked at how small he was. Well that and the fact they were probably unstable in their own heads.
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NBA rookie of the year
Re: Spud Webb - highest vertical in league history?
Originally Posted by Orlando Magic
The angle from the bottom makes him appear to reach higher. He probably wasn't higher than 12'6".
Forget for the moment that video and watch this - both his hand and his head:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9vO8o-zL_Q
I think it becomes clearer now that he could definitely touch higher than 12'6.
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Re: Spud Webb - highest vertical in league history?
Originally Posted by Pointguard
Yeah cause we are amused when even Blake's head hits the backboard... yet Spudd was doing it all the time. Well actually for him to dunk with his small arms he had to get that high. Spudd was really small about 5'5 in the street. I've been to after games where people started munching his head because they were more or less shocked at how small he was. Well that and the fact they were probably unstable in their own heads.
Isn't it scary thinking how high he would have reached with a "normal" NBA guard body? I'd love to see some games from Spud's prime, at his statistical best he averaged 16 points (45% shooting), 7 assists, 1.5 steals and 3 rebounds during the '92 season which is really impressive considering his height.
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Re: Spud Webb - highest vertical in league history?
Originally Posted by Psileas
If we're talking about players who played even 1 single second in the league, James White has to be a candidate. There's that famous video of him trying to touch the top of the backboard and coming as close as almost anyone I've ever seen (maybe 2 inches away). If his standing reach is 9 feet, this would bring his max vertical at around 46 inches. Does anyone know his actual reach?
I can't find any solid information on White's standing reach. In a thread a few years ago, someone claimed it was 8'9'' (post #17): http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/sho...t=71708&page=2
Here's another White clip. I find you can gain more from looking at the space between his feet and the ground rather than looking at his head in accordance to the rim. It's that dreaded low angle, the one I see a guy around here post pictures of LeBron James from, so nearly every jump looks rim level just because of the angle. Another more accurate way to gauge things is how horizontal his arm is at the time of his finish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb7ye...ayer_embedded#!
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