the_warden wrote:Cash wrote:Remember, with some rare exceptions, nearly ALL listed heights in the NBA are heights in shoes.
I disagree, but only because I think a lot of listed heights are outright lies. Love this article from a while back:
http://www.slamonline.com/online/kicks/2009/08/kicks-6-the-power-of-3/Duncan, KG, and T-Mac start talking about height midway through. It's a great article all around though.
Good article. Sure, you definitely get the straight lies, but I think those only come into play with stars, and not even most stars, and thus are relatively rare exceptions. KG is one of the most famous. I remember when he hit his prime in Minny, either his coach or GM was quoted in SI as saying KG's 7'2" in shoes. It's well-known that he's insisted on being listed at 6'11" since he was a rookie so he wouldn't be thought of as a center. You can see he's an inch or two taller than Duncan when they stand next to each other, but Duncan's listed at 7'0". Even though Duncan was listed at 6'10" at Wake Forest.
McGrady always looked 6'8" to me, but KG and Duncan sound pretty sure that he's 6'10" in that interview. Hedo Turkoglu somehow went from being 6'8" with the Kings to 6'10" with the Magic. But these are the exceptions, not the rule. If you go through DraftExpress' database of pre-draft measurements and compare the "in-shoes" measurement to the player's current listed height, you'll find that they almost universally agree.