LeBron's Vertical Revealed

[Marchesk]

When I saw your name in the recent posts, I thought it would be something about how Wilt had a 65+ inch vert and some BS grainy pics as proof

52 inch, no need to exaggerate.

[Cocaine80s]

That's exactly the problem. It's a cross court cam, cross court camera angles are not convincing evidence at all. He's closer to the camera than the rim is. So he appears larger and on a higher plane. It is an optical illusion.

hes actually further back than the rim...

hes probably right where the backboard is or slightly behind it.

[pauk]

That's exactly the problem. It's a cross court cam, cross court camera angles are not convincing evidence at all. He's closer to the camera than the rim is. So he appears larger and on a higher plane. It is an optical illusion.

Look at it from any angle you wish, it no optical illusion, its no rocket science to evaluate that the top of his head was VERY clearly above the rim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX990fnB6i8

Come on man, if he just raised his chin up a bit he could have decapitated himself :P

[SamuraiSWISH]

Air Superiority

[dubeta]

52 inch, no need to exaggerate.

That pic is so grainy I could pass it off as Steve Nash 52 inch vert confirmed

[CavaliersFTW]

Look at it from any angle you wish, it no optical illusion, its no rocket science to evaluate that the top of his head was VERY clearly above the rim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX990fnB6i8

Come on man, if he just raised his chin up a bit he could have decapitated himself :P

Nah, his head looks like it might have been rim level, the other angles don't reveal his head to be above the rim at all. The cross court cam sells at as greater than it really is. The cross-court camera angle has been selectively used for the past few decades for that very purpose. That camera angle was discovered and exists to replay dunks and athletic aerial plays for that very reason of optical distortion.

[dubeta]

Nah, his head looks like it might have been rim level, the other angles don't reveal his head to be above the rim at all. The cross court cam sells at as greater than it really is. The cross-court camera angle has been selectively used for the past few decades for that very purpose. That camera angle was discovered and exists to replay dunks and athletic aerial plays for that very reason of optical distortion.

Wow, thats actually insightful

tell me the optical illusions here pls

[CavaliersFTW]

Wow, thats actually insightful

tell me the optical illusions here pls

Break-away rim. His head is rim level, not more. Look at the back of the rim (the part that didn't break-and drop). Again, I already said I think his head can get rim level. I just don't think he goes above it.

*EDIT*
for example look at the top of his head in relation to the stripes on the american flag on the backboard... if you painted an imaginary line of the stripes on the flag across to the rim you could see he's at rim level. - Spectacular leaper, but I've never been convinced he got above the rim (yet). I just tend to think (all) NBA players verticals get exaggerated, not just Lebrons.

[kennethgriffin]

52 inch, no need to exaggerate.

if wilt could jump 52 inches.

7 foot 1 is 85 inches

a rim is 120 inches high



which would be 17 inches over the rim.

basically meaning wilt could get his entire head, neck all the way up to his shoulders over the rim

[pauk]

How bout this?

[Smook A.]

How bout this?

LeBron's head is barely above rim-level in that pic ^

[Marchesk]

if wilt could jump 52 inches.

7 foot 1 is 85 inches

a rim is 120 inches high



which would be 17 inches over the rim.

basically meaning wilt could get his entire head, neck all the way up to his shoulders over the rim

I was joking around with Dubetta, but if you've seen the video of this play where Cavs colors in Wilt, the rim and the top of the backboard, you can see that Wilt's left armpit is basically at rim level.

Wilt probably could touch to the top of the backboard, so whatever that amounts to for his vertical.

[Marchesk]

As you can clearly see, the red line goes from the back of the rim to intersecting Wilt's armpit.

[Cocaine80s]

LeBron's head is barely above rim-level in that pic ^

hes also doing the ****ing limbo mid air

if his head was straight it would be above rim

[Cocaine80s]

As you can clearly see, the red line goes from the back of the rim, intersecting Wilt's armpit.

thats the shittiest pic ever

wilt's upper body literally becomes blackness


and the rim isnt even visible lmfao