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Problem with this Pic is Jerry is wearing hard bottom shoes which adds to your height more than sneakers. If you believe Kobe is only 6'3 (which he isnt) then wade is like 6'1
Notas A3 wrote:Did he admitted his weight?
Kuya wrote: a good agent collects all the data, including quotes to give them leverage in contract deals.
D.Brasco wrote:Hakeem is 6'10" by his own admission alonzo is 6'9.5" barefoot.
You know pretty much every player drafted since 91 has their barefoot heights listed including 7'1" barefoot shaq. Just check here, i'm dumbfounded about how it seems so few people know this.
http://www.draftexpress.com/nba-pre-draft-measurements.php
MaceCase wrote:kooldude wrote:Shaq was measured 7'1 barefoot at the combine.
Are you going by Draftexpress? Because they have a bit of a disclaimer on thatMeasurements prior to 2000 are based on newspaper articles rather than official league documents. While the measurements reported in such articles are reported to be officially from the predraft camp, we are taking those writers at their word and can not completely verify that information.
From DraftExpress.com http://www.draftexpress.com#ixzz28NkNqqoI
http://www.draftexpress.com
dtown8 wrote:After college, i went to four D-league tryouts. i'm really 5'9, but they kept listing me at 5'11. their was even one try out where the guy wasn't even using a measuring tape or tool, he was just asking guys their height, i told him 5'10, then he said to me "are you sure your not 6'0", i told him no, but if i said yeah, he wouldn't have had a problem in listing me at 6'0.
i also went to some arena football league tryouts, and they were alot more concern about being accurate, they listed me at 5'9.25
MaceCase wrote:D.Brasco wrote:Hakeem is 6'10" by his own admission alonzo is 6'9.5" barefoot.
You know pretty much every player drafted since 91 has their barefoot heights listed including 7'1" barefoot shaq. Just check here, i'm dumbfounded about how it seems so few people know this.
http://www.draftexpress.com/nba-pre-draft-measurements.phpMaceCase wrote:kooldude wrote:Shaq was measured 7'1 barefoot at the combine.
Are you going by Draftexpress? Because they have a bit of a disclaimer on thatMeasurements prior to 2000 are based on newspaper articles rather than official league documents. While the measurements reported in such articles are reported to be officially from the predraft camp, we are taking those writers at their word and can not completely verify that information.
From DraftExpress.com http://www.draftexpress.com#ixzz28NkNqqoI
http://www.draftexpress.com
Just scroll all the way down to the bottom of their database and it's there. There is still plenty room left for speculation.
TheXFactor wrote:LLJ wrote:Dipper 13 wrote:
Everyone remembers Fat Shaq more than Fit Shaq, but this picture does really suggest that Wilt could muscle with Shaq with both in their best conditions.
Still, I guess Fat Shaq was pretty damned hard to move.
Actually I'm more impressed of Wilt in that pic. Look at the guy at an older age, he was huge, just as big as shaq, and he is bending his knee, you can tell he is clearly taller than Shaq
Lightning25 wrote:A lot of NBA players are listed taller than what they were. The only one might be listed shorter than what he actually is probably be Kevin Durant.
dtown8 wrote:
does that mean Hakeem and Alonzo are really like 6'9, or 6'8
FortyDayzdone wrote:dtown8 wrote:
does that mean Hakeem and Alonzo are really like 6'9, or 6'8
Wow I feel sorry for Hakeem's wife! I mean that's hard to not notice! Like that scene of Latrell Spencer (Terry Crew) at the beach! Mandingo!
Let's start comparing bulges instead of heights, I'm pretty sure it's never been done before on RealGM....
Anyone who calls me homo is either blind or is hiding in a secret closet.
Btw I got 2 kids, a wife, a mistress, and a girlfriend!
TDG26 wrote:FortyDayzdone wrote:dtown8 wrote:
does that mean Hakeem and Alonzo are really like 6'9, or 6'8
Wow I feel sorry for Hakeem's wife! I mean that's hard to not notice! Like that scene of Latrell Spencer (Terry Crew) at the beach! Mandingo!
Let's start comparing bulges instead of heights, I'm pretty sure it's never been done before on RealGM....
Anyone who calls me homo is either blind or is hiding in a secret closet.
Btw I got 2 kids, a wife, a mistress, and a girlfriend!
You ultra defensiveness of not being a homo probably says something about you.
Its rather ironic.
FortyDayzdone wrote:Let's start comparing bulges instead of heights, I'm pretty sure it's never been done before on RealGM....
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
blkout wrote:FortyDayzdone wrote:Let's start comparing bulges instead of heights, I'm pretty sure it's never been done before on RealGM....
Yeah no amount of "nohomo"'s can save you from this one
no homo!!! I forgot! blkout wrote:Oh wait it was a joke. I get jokes
hehehe 
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The thing is, a decision was made to exaggerate height in the early 80s. It's why Hakeem and Sampson were the "Twin Towers"...a pair of seven footers. Except Hakeem was never close to 7 feet...not unless he had heels on. Like a lot of great Cs, he measured somewhere between 6'9" and 6'10" in his socks. He's in good company there...with guys like Ewing and Reed and Russell and Zo. But the NBA wanted the illusion that players were bigger than they were--and if you weren't paying attention (like, say, Silver Bullet), you bought into it...even though it was well known that players were measured in socks or barefoot until the mid-70s, and past players cared so little about their listed height/weight that, sometime,s they are laughably off. Guys like Clyde Lovelette and Walt Bellamy and Willis Reed and Wayne Embry had weights that, by the end of their careers, were as much as 50 or 60 pounds off. I've got a copy of a magazine that lists Kareem at 235 in 1979. He's often listed between 225 (his weight at the beginning of his senior year at UCLA) and 235 (his weight when he was drafted) In 1980 he actually got on a scale...and came it at 267 pounds. He has said that by the end of his career he was near 300. But you can still find a ton of places that list him between 225-235.
You know why? Because Kareem doesn't care. He realizes that a player's listed weight or height is pretty much irrelevant. What matters is the quality of the player. We often miss the big picture that Kareem can see. Let's say that all the old measurements are dead on correct, and that Willis Reed and Zelmo Beaty were only 6'9", and Nate Thurmond and Walt Bellamy were only 6'11" or so. that bob Lanier weighed 245 to 250 pounds. Do they become lesser? Only if you're ignorant enough to judge a player by an inch of height. Hakeem's height slowly dropped...from 7' to 6'11" to, in many places, 6'10" now. Hakeem, in shoes, is between 6'10" and 6'11"...probably a bit closer to 6'11". He didn't have a problem with getting "shorter." Same with Ewing...I was proud when he copped to being between 6'9" and 6'10". Like he said, "But I'm a bad 6'9"!" I always felt it was sad that Ben Wallace felt he had to be listed at 6'9" when, effectively, everyone in the universe knew he was a good 2 inches shorter than that. If you're paying even the slightest attention, you're aware that modern players very often overstate their heights. As thought it makes a difference in player quality. Sad
