NBA To Finally Have Accurate Heights

[ThatBoyNick]

Will they do accurate measurements or continue to use inaccurate Yank way to measure height of round to closest next inch? With metric system this all would be so much easier.


Players I have interested in are Durant and Howard. How much will they gain/lose.

Howard was 6'9 barefoot about 40 pounds, 15 years and 2 back surgeries ago... so a man listed at 6'11 might be around 6'8.5 now lol.

[GusT15]

Please tell me they have an actual physicians height/weight scale and this is not the way they'll do the height measurement.

[Gooner]

I always found it interesting that ppl almost always reference charles barkely as 6'4 but jordan 6'6 when they are exactly the same height.

Barkely is 6'5", Jordan is 6'5.25".

[KingDavid]

Please tell me they have an actual physicians height/weight scale and this is not the way they'll do the height measurement.

I'd be surprised if this is allowed. I'm pretty sure it'll have to be an official measurement. Like up against a wall that has measurements labeled.

[NO-KG-AI]

I predict KP will be 7'1.5 and Boban a legit 7'3.

KP was 7’1.25 with no shoes when he was drafted. It’s hilarious because he’s massively taller than these guys that supposedly grew to 7’+ over a summer.

KP 7’6 confirmed

[reignfire]

Lakers starting center:

6'9'' Dwight Howard

Exactly, but to me it's more stunning what he managed to do in his career if he would tell his real height. A lot more respect after officially seeing how short he really is, it can be seen on the court but official wording always makes the difference.

Only because he has a small head.

His wingspan is 7'4'' and has a high standing reach. Your height from the neck up is useless in basketball.

[Tacoma]

This was the biggest issue facing the NBA in our time.

Excellent work by Silver fixing something that is completely irrelevant to most people.

I mean... What they had in place was pretty damn stupid, even if everyone got used to it, and it's an extremely easily fixed thing. Feels like a pretty sensible decision to me.

If knowing exactly how tall an existing NBA player is, changes how you see him or evaluate him, if it's an inch or two different.... that's pretty weird. It's easily fixed but it's incredibly inconsequential. Especially given the other issues facing the NBA that they aren't dealing with. And no, I don't want to talk about them here.

Just because it's irrelevant to you it doesn't mean it's irrelevant to everyone. Height matter more in basketball than most sports so keeping accurate heights is a no brainer and surprised it wasn't done sooner. Nothing wrong with getting facts straight.

Sporting stats & metrics are increasingly being leveraged, analyzed, sliced and diced these days with companies making money off sports data - for example NBA 2K as well as the aforementioned sports betting.

It probably took the NBA less time to make this decision than it does some of you whining about its irrelevancy.

[XxIronChainzxX]

I mean... What they had in place was pretty damn stupid, even if everyone got used to it, and it's an extremely easily fixed thing. Feels like a pretty sensible decision to me.

If knowing exactly how tall an existing NBA player is, changes how you see him or evaluate him, if it's an inch or two different.... that's pretty weird. It's easily fixed but it's incredibly inconsequential. Especially given the other issues facing the NBA that they aren't dealing with. And no, I don't want to talk about them here.

Just because it's irrelevant to you it doesn't mean it's irrelevant to everyone. Height matter more in basketball than most sports so keeping accurate heights is a no brainer and surprised it wasn't done sooner. Nothing wrong with getting facts straight.

Sporting stats & metrics are increasingly being leveraged, analyzed, sliced and diced these days with companies making money off sports data - for example NBA 2K as well as the aforementioned sports betting.

It probably took the NBA less time to make this decision than it does some of you whining about its irrelevancy.

I'm sceptical that analytics would really rely on raw physical measurements in terms of height and weight.

[youngcrev]

Lakers starting center:

6'9'' Dwight Howard

Exactly, but to me it's more stunning what he managed to do in his career if he would tell his real height. A lot more respect after officially seeing how short he really is, it can be seen on the court but official wording always makes the difference.

Only because he has a small head.

His wingspan is 7'4'' and has a high standing reach. Your height from the neck up is useless in basketball.

I agree in general that wingspan/reach are far more important, but I disagree that it's completely useless. I think there's a psychological component to it, as well as the obvious physical one of the impact on court vision

[jayu70]

Please tell me they have an actual physicians height/weight scale and this is not the way they'll do the height measurement.

I'd be surprised if this is allowed. I'm pretty sure it'll have to be an official measurement. Like up against a wall that has measurements labeled.

Hawks GM Travis Schlenk said in Friday presser that the team doctors will be recording the measurement and not the trainers (since the Doctors can apparently read a ruler better than the trainers ).

[Johnny Bball]

I mean... What they had in place was pretty damn stupid, even if everyone got used to it, and it's an extremely easily fixed thing. Feels like a pretty sensible decision to me.

If knowing exactly how tall an existing NBA player is, changes how you see him or evaluate him, if it's an inch or two different.... that's pretty weird. It's easily fixed but it's incredibly inconsequential. Especially given the other issues facing the NBA that they aren't dealing with. And no, I don't want to talk about them here.

Just because it's irrelevant to you it doesn't mean it's irrelevant to everyone. Height matter more in basketball than most sports so keeping accurate heights is a no brainer and surprised it wasn't done sooner. Nothing wrong with getting facts straight.

Sporting stats & metrics are increasingly being leveraged, analyzed, sliced and diced these days with companies making money off sports data - for example NBA 2K as well as the aforementioned sports betting.

It probably took the NBA less time to make this decision than it does some of you whining about its irrelevancy.

What part of the original post saying irrelevant to most people with an underline was difficult here? Did I need to use a double underlined me for the word “most”?

And yeah... I said it’s an easy fix. It’s right there typed above...along with my reason.

[Rastas]

Please tell me they have an actual physicians height/weight scale and this is not the way they'll do the height measurement.

I'd be surprised if this is allowed. I'm pretty sure it'll have to be an official measurement. Like up against a wall that has measurements labeled.

Hawks GM Travis Schlenk said in Friday presser that the team doctors will be recording the measurement and not the trainers (since the Doctors can apparently read a ruler better than the trainers ).

Would prefere league officials doing this over TEAM doctors.

[Hindenburg]

Please tell me they have an actual physicians height/weight scale and this is not the way they'll do the height measurement.

lmao all crooked and accounting the hair. In b4 Buddy is measured to be 6'7

[JN61]

Please tell me they have an actual physicians height/weight scale and this is not the way they'll do the height measurement.

I hope this picture was made tongue in cheek.

[CelticsLV]

Meh... What stops teams from reporting whatever their players want? It's not like this will be some enforced independent measurement.

[DaddyCool19]

What prevents teams from rounding up heights or making a guy slightly taller than he is, if no official guy from the NBA is there?

[NBAFan93]

I assume they are doing this cause of the gambling aspect - can’t have some dudes exaggerating/understating their heights and others being truthful as it could affect odds and such when the betters do their calcs. Need to make sure it’s on the up and up.

Also it’s possible players money and value can be impacted by this - another reason it needs to be accurate and consistent.

NBA certainly has the money/resources to do this right - please don’t botch it this first time. They should be doing the same thing for weight as well.

I’m extremely interested to see what these heights come back for certain players though - wonder where and we’ll they put them out? NBA.com?

[Duke4life831]

What prevents teams from rounding up heights or making a guy slightly taller than he is, if no official guy from the NBA is there?

Yup. I like the idea of finally having accurate numbers for height. But if the NBA isn't sending its own guys to do this or at least hirer an independent person to do this, all of this is pretty pointless.

[NBAFan93]

I’m irrationally interested in these figures being released and staggered that the NBA would release the barefoot height. Far too logical for the NBA.

Lol. Maybe they can have Rachel Nichols do a height reveal show on ESPN! Now for the heights of Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant of the Brooklyn Nets - cut to commercial....

[FlatearthZorro]

This was the biggest issue facing the NBA in our time.

Excellent work by Silver fixing something that is completely irrelevant to most people.

As I've said it before, I'll say it again, Silver is way out of his league. No idea how he's the comiss, he's pathetic and has done nothing relevant in his run so far. Imo, the league has actually gotten worse.