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Rockets published updated roster measurements and it's obvious players are being measured in shoes again.


You have guys like Nwaba, Burke, Chriss who didn't get new measurements, so they have their without shoe measurements posted alongside players listed in shoes which irritates the hell out of me. Eric Gordon gets weight updated from 215 to 238 despite looking exactly the same, showing his real weight hasn't been updated in years.

I don't know how unfeasible it is, but with such a wealthy league, and with them promoting gambling these days amongst other things, would be nice to have the NBA send people to the training camps to do measurements with actual standards.

All young rebuilding teams don’t have anything to talk in the summer about except that all their young guys grew 2-3 inches and put on 25 pounds of muscle.

NO-KG-AI wrote:All young rebuilding teams don’t have anything to talk in the summer about except that all their young guys grew 2-3 inches and put on 25 pounds of muscle.

Or in the case of Pelicans, that their young guy lost about 50 lbs

Cubbies2120 wrote:

NO-KG-AI wrote:All young rebuilding teams don’t have anything to talk in the summer about except that all their young guys grew 2-3 inches and put on 25 pounds of muscle.

Or in the case of Pelicans, that their young guy lost about 50 lbs

Trey Murphy came out and said that he’s 6’10 now and Brandon Ingram said “he ain’t 6’10, but he nice”

It was like “we don’t do that height thing here, we only talk about weight.” So in the media day today, Trey talked about going from 201, to 214. Hahhaa

I choose to believe that Sengun grew two inches since euroleague which ended a few weeks ago, idc about your reality

Eric Gordon weighs 238 pounds?!?! That is way too heavy for a shooting guard

Gordon and Nix over there weighing as much as modern bigs.

Nix has an interesting skill set. If he could shoot, he'd be a useful player. Still be interesting to watch his progress, though.

yeah i don't think it's regulated at all. the pistons' weights are almost all in increments of 5. isaiah stewart is listed at what he was listed as in college (6'9, 250), despite measuring 6'7 w/o shoes and 243 at the combine.

i think part of it is that the players don't have to officially report until media day but all the rosters and stuff have to be submitted before then. they probably just ask the players or their agents in advance.

Trying to increase their trade values smh

You would think they would try to actually have some sort consistency in the way they do heights and weights since it plays such a big role in player matchups. I'm sure the teams have more accurate internal databases that the public doesn't have access to, though.

Jalen Green is not 6'6 lol

Roscoe Sheed wrote:Eric Gordon weighs 238 pounds?!?! That is way too heavy for a shooting guard

He’s always been a thicker guard. He ain’t no Zion though

Roscoe Sheed wrote:Eric Gordon weighs 238 pounds?!?! That is way too heavy for a shooting guard

Just another opportunity for me to post one of my favorite all-time videos:

Joel Embiid is my measuring stick. When the 76ers cooperated and released that Joel was 6'11.75 after announcing he had grown to 7'2 a few years prior, they poked a hole in every team that was lying. (Also, Ben being 6'9.5, and being as tall as all the dudes that have magically "grown" to 6'11-7' lol).

Now whenever some guy that was 6'9-6'10 and has supposedly shot up 2-3 inches since being drafted, we get to see if he's as big or bigger than Embiid. And after Embiid inevitably dwarfs them by 2-3 inches, we can stop peddling the nonsense lol.

very point guard under 24 Grows 2 Inches and puts on 20 pounds of muscle in the off-season to become the 6'6" wing defender everyone desperately wants

Anthony Edwards was 6'4" last season, he'll be 7'9" and 364 pounds by 2026, which isn;t enough because I think LaMelo will be 8'3" and 412 pounds by then

K_chile22 wrote:I choose to believe that Sengun grew two inches since euroleague which ended a few weeks ago, idc about your reality

When he was playing against Jokic this summer, he was clearly shorter than Jokic, couple of inches and Jokic is 6"11. Measurements are often inflated.

NO-KG-AI wrote:Joel Embiid is my measuring stick. When the 76ers cooperated and released that Joel was 6'11.75 after announcing he had grown to 7'2 a few years prior, they poked a hole in every team that was lying. (Also, Ben being 6'9.5, and being as tall as all the dudes that have magically "grown" to 6'11-7' lol).

Now whenever some guy that was 6'9-6'10 and has supposedly shot up 2-3 inches since being drafted, we get to see if he's as big or bigger than Embiid. And after Embiid inevitably dwarfs them by 2-3 inches, we can stop peddling the nonsense lol.

I think Embiid is legit seven footer, probably near to 7"1.

ThatBoyNick wrote:Rockets published updated roster measurements and it's obvious players are being measured in shoes again.

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You have guys like Nwaba, Burke, Chriss who didn't get new measurements, so they have their without shoe measurements posted alongside players listed in shoes which irritates the hell out of me. Eric Gordon gets weight updated from 215 to 238 despite looking exactly the same, showing his real weight hasn't been updated in years.

I don't know how unfeasible it is, but with such a wealthy league, and with them promoting gambling these days amongst other things, would be nice to have the NBA send people to the training camps to do measurements with actual standards.

Gamblers actually have a case.
Weights & Measurements should be published, verified, updated, & accurate. In shoes out of shoes....

People should be able to gamble all they want, not a fan on it being advertised on free tv/radio/billboards/in public... and can't do much about it being sponsored on platforms that require payment but with now "legit" billions being gambled, some actual standards and practices would be nice for their "consumers", since every other commercial, ad banner, product placement..... is shoving it down the publics throat

It would take less than half a day, 3 times a year
start of season, end of all star break, start of playoffs
to bring in an independent medical accredited practitioner to have these millionaires stand in a box or walk thru a fancy 2023 whatever it's called to take laser precision measurements & weights to upload to a public database.

1 real bank roll could get the ball in motion surprised a lawyer hasnt stepped up yet.

Lowest paid guy on a bench clearing 4K a day after taxes.
1 4K a day lawyer could knock out a /nba_measurements class action in a weekend

Does it really matter? Listed heights and weights have always been inaccurate or downright fictional to a greater or lesser extent from player to player. So they're not only inaccurate, but not even inaccurate in a consistent way.

So what?

Maybe for the draft, where guys are less familiar and have no NBA track record, teams would want as much information as possible. And even there, too much focus on physical attributes and archetypal positional size can just be a distraction for evaluating how good a player is at actually playing basketball. But as fan, what possible difference does it make?

How tall would a player be if you didn't know how tall he is?

ellobo wrote:Does it really matter? Listed heights and weights have always been inaccurate or downright fictional to a greater or lesser extent from player to player. So they're not only inaccurate, but not even inaccurate in a consistent way.

So what?

Maybe for the draft, where guys are less familiar and have no NBA track record, teams would want as much information as possible. But as fan, what possible difference does it make?

How tall would a player be if you didn't know how tall he is?

It matters if you betting dimes and nickles...
It matters if the rent/mortgage/car note/baby formula is at risk

Information is power as they say

If they shoving gambling down the publics throat to the point its every other commercial... the gamblers they're trying to exploit deserve all the information available to be accurate

a 1% edge is still an edge
trust the algos they brogram use all the advantages they can and no ones really regulating the code behind the algos, the house always wins in the end doub't when it's digital and easily turned up and down/manipulated whenever it still has the advantage

they want 100% loses turn a dial edit a number in the code
they want 100% wins the same
50.01% not an issue
74.04%
consumer will never know and regulators can never do anything about or realistically audit
they can schedule the odds out the next 100+ years and know exactly what will come back does'nt matter its all profit to them, they can set it to audit delete and keep a separate set of books that shows them losing or keeping pace with others in the industry