Will we ever see a 8ft, 400 pound athletic freak?

[Simple Jack]

actually there had been 8'11 guys before, 8'0 is nothing extraodinary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_people


Even if this were incomplete, which it probably is, it's still extremely rare.

[tommyhtc]

actually there had been 8'11 guys before, 8'0 is nothing extraodinary

you are contradiciting yourself, those tall people above 8 feet were all from 50 years ago,
we have never seen 8 footers that can move properly, let alone a super athletic one.

Don't overrate nutritions, etc, we probably won't see a shaq type 8 footer for at least 300 years.

[gigantes]

Will we ever see a 8ft, 400 pound athletic freak?

why stop there, dude? let's hope for a 10ft, 500-lb specimen one of these days.

better yet, how about if someone signs the planet-eating galactus to the NBA?

"it could happen."

[nbacardDOTnet]

Probably in the year 2350

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[ZaaaaaH]

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[PistonsFan#21]

you never know with better nutrition, medical technology, and training these days

if you can get shaq at 7'1 running up and down jumping 38 inches, you can probably get a 8fter running up and down jumping 20 inches 20 years later

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Shad didnt have a 38 inch vertical at no point in his career. Maybe 30-32 inches at the most.

And Shaq didnt get up to 7'1'' because he had an amazing nutrition and medical technology. It has more to do with genetics than anything. Do you also think Nate Robinson is only 5'8'' because his nutrition wasnt as good as Shaq's?

[Manute for Ever!]

actually there had been 8'11 guys before, 8'0 is nothing extraodinary

Let's break down the stupidity of this entire thread with this single post:

[LIST][*]There is currently [COLOR="Red"]ONE[/COLOR] living person in the world that has been verified to stand 8' foot tall (Sultan Kosen of Turkey, 8'1", 247cm) amongst an estimated global population of 6,884,900,000.
Let me ask you this; If you achieved something where the odds were 1:6,884,900,000, would you say it was "nothing extraordinary"? I'd call winning the lottery "extrodinary", but:

Your actual odds of winning the lottery depend on where you play, but single state lotteries usually have odds of about 18 million to 1 while multiple state lotteries have odds as high as 120 million to 1.

http://www.savingadvice.com/forums/o...our-money.html
When the odds are 1:120,000,000, I'll take 'em as opposed to 6.8 billion to 1.[*] There have been a total of 13 people 8' and over in recorded history, [COLOR="red"]3[/COLOR] of whom (excluding Kosen) have lived past 50 years old. In fact, the average life expectency for anyone 8' or above, again, excluding Kosen, is 38.8 years old (Grant Hill's age, give or take a month).
Your title states "8 ft, 400 pound athletic freak". Let's see how athletic these 13 people are/were:[/LIST]

Robert Wadlow


Born February 22, 1918
Died July 15, 1940 (aged 22)
Height 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m)
Weight 490 lb (220 kg)

Wadlow's size began to take its toll: he required leg braces to walk, and had little feeling in his legs and feet.

John Rogan


Born ca. 1865-1868
Died 1905 (aged 37-40)
Height 8 ft 7 in (262 cm)
Weight 175 lb (79 kg)

Rogan began to grow very rapidly at the age of 13 leading to ankylosis. After only being able to walk on crutches by 1882 he could not stand or walk.

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[Slam13]

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Shad didnt have a 38 inch vertical at no point in his career. Maybe 30-32 inches at the most.

And Shaq didnt get up to 7'1'' because he had an amazing nutrition and medical technology. It has more to do with genetics than anything. Do you also think Nate Robinson is only 5'8'' because his nutrition wasnt as good as Shaq's?

You can't really get bigger than 7"2 feet without gigantism...
Yao ming is one of the very few exceptions. Gigantism is al illness and the body can't cope with it and thus they are not athletic.
Yes Shaq is huge just because of his genes and that's why he can also be athletic because he is not ill.

You can't really be healthy and very mobile if you are over 7 feet, Shaq is one of very few exceptions.

[Manute for Ever!]

you can probably artifically design a person to grow to be 10ft tall, super athletic, strong, healthy, with all the basketball skills already implanted to his brain

Wouldn't that kind of take away from the competitive element of basketball? Plus, the Lakers would just go over the cap and sign all of them...

[A.R.T]

Wouldn't that kind of take away from the competitive element of basketball? Plus, the Lakers would just go over the cap and sign all of them...

[Psileas]

Thanks Manute for Ever for ending the thread. For some, it seems like if something happened as often as 10-20 times in the last centuries, it's not extraordinary any longer.

You can't really get bigger than 7"2 feet without gigantism...
Yao ming is one of the very few exceptions. Gigantism is al illness and the body can't cope with it and thus they are not athletic.

I wouldn't call gigantism itself a disease. It's just the condition of being very tall, which usually makes you vulnerable to related disorders, like acromegaly. If you are like 7'5, you should be considered as having by definition gigantism, no matter how healthy you are.

[TennesseeFan]

Please, Shawn Bradley and Yao Ming can't even stay on the court at 7'6, let alone this 8'0 bullshit.

[Manute for Ever!]

Thanks Manute for Ever for ending the thread. For some, it seems like if something happened as often as 10-20 times in the last centuries, it's not extraordinary any longer.

But those are barefoot measurements, there would be a couple other 7'10" - 7'11" guys who would be rounded up to 8' if we were to measure them in shoes.

[TonyJones]

Probably in the year 2350

LOL There will be no basketball in the year 2350. Basketball will be something school children will read about in their history books just like we learned all of the "weird" sports the Greeks used to play.

[DCL]

You had to be high to make this thread...









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and everyone who responded seriously and made this into a legitimate discussion just had to be too