NBA players with NBA sons taller than them

[Nuntius]

Look at Lebron. Desperate to play ball with his son, but his son is too short and not good enough. Who’s fault is that?

Since height is hereditary it goes without saying that the height of both parents is going to affect the height of the child. That's a given. My "you have to be joking" comment was about you saying that NBA players (or any human, in general) should care about their kid's height so much that it affects who they marry. The goal of a marriage (or any kind of romantic relationship) isn't to produce the perfect offspring. It's to, you know, love each other and spending your life together. Nothing else matters.

Nah bro I need a colossus woman to produce a behemoth son so I can ride him around and eat the quality fruit at the top of the tree

That was legitimately funny, at least

[Buckeye-NBAFan]

Most kids are taller than their parents. No mistake that these midieval knights were actually super short guys, humans do get taller and taller it seems, its a gene that overpowers other genes, right?

But to answer the question, NOT Domantas Sabonis.

Humans aren't getting tall that fast. Most any growth can likely be attributed to better nutrition.

There are certainly more tall people in general, because there are more people in the world every year.

[NaturalThunder]

Most kids are taller than their parents. No mistake that these midieval knights were actually super short guys, humans do get taller and taller it seems, its a gene that overpowers other genes, right?

But to answer the question, NOT Domantas Sabonis.

is more like a combination of mother and father height, if the mother is taller than average the kid is more likely to be taller than his dad

there are even formulas who give you a decent ballpark estimate assiming good health of nutrition so the kid can reach his max potential height

for example

Add the mother's height to the father's height in either inches or centimeters.
Add 5 inches (13 centimeters) for boys or subtract 5 inches (13 centimeters) for girls.
Divide by 2.

taken from mayo clinic webpage

But doing that formula doesn't make either of my sons taller than me and my wife is taller than average for a female at 5'7".

I'm 6'4" and my wife is 5'7".

76in+67in = 143in

143 + 5 = 148in/2 = 74 or 6'2".

It does work out where my daughter would theoretically be taller than my wife: 5'7" (wife) compared to 5'9" (daughter). Now, if my wife were 5'11", then using your formula, my sons would be projected to be 6'4". But 5'11" is way above the average female height. Of course, using the CDC growth charts for my kids (5 year old daughter, 4 year old son, 1 year old son), all three have been at or above the 99th percentile in height at every age so far.

It'll be interesting to see. Odds are, one of my sons will be near my height or taller, I'm sure. My dad was 6'3.5" at his peak. I measured at 6'4.5" about 5 years ago. My grandpa (dad's, dad) was about 6'2". Generationally, one male from each successive generation, has ended up being about 1-inch taller than their dad. My mom, though, is 5'3" so it led to a mix: me at 6'4" (and change) and my brother topping out at 6'1".

[AdagioPace]

male height is influenced by both father and mother height (same for female height)

so if your dad is incredibly tall is very likely that -both- of his parents were tall

if klay thompson has a huge dad but an average height mom he will be unlikely to match or beat his dad height

is the players who marry tall women who may have huge sons taller than them

this is why I say it's shortsighted of NBA players to marry petite hotties. Gotta think of your future and marry a volleyball or basketball player or tall track athlete. Give yourself better odds of having a tall kid.


I got a hockey buddy who is 6'6 and huge. His wife played volleyball and basketball and is at least 6'3. I used to tell him before they had kids that I wanted to take out a 10% share of their first born son. Granted, neither of the parents are good athletes, but i was thinking future offensive lineman for sure. But then they only had one kid and it's girl. Crushed my dreams.

Problem is: love and/or penis instinct dont follow preventive statistical evaluations

[AdagioPace]

male height is influenced by both father and mother height (same for female height)

so if your dad is incredibly tall is very likely that -both- of his parents were tall

if klay thompson has a huge dad but an average height mom he will be unlikely to match or beat his dad height

is the players who marry tall women who may have huge sons taller than them

well not necessarily. younger generations tend to be taller on average. my mother is 1.65m, my father is 1.75m and I am 1.91m.

Interesting. Height is a multifactorial character with 700 genes involved (its really hard to predict the outcome). I assume environment doesnt play a big role in the industrialized world. Maybe some of your grandpas/grandmas were tall?

[Loaded_Hollows]

Wait a second. You're joking here, right?

Look at Lebron. Desperate to play ball with his son, but his son is too short and not good enough. Who’s fault is that?

Since height is hereditary it goes without saying that the height of both parents is going to affect the height of the child. That's a given. My "you have to be joking" comment was about you saying that NBA players (or any human, in general) should care about their kid's height so much that it affects who they marry. The goal of a marriage (or any kind of romantic relationship) isn't to produce the perfect offspring. It's to, you know, love each other and spending your life together. Nothing else matters.

False notion. Marriage is not about love. If it blossoms into that, that’s great. That’s not really the purpose though. It’s about duty. A man’s duty to his wife. A wife’s duty to her husband. They hopefully create children they have a duty to. And the children have a duty to their parents. It’s an arrangement/deal that is made that is supposed to benefit all parties and society as a whole. The romanticization of marriage (and the romantic dating nonsense that lasts years) has corrupted society for far too long. It’s kind of sad.

Now as for whether it makes sense to have “creating athletically gifted/tall children” as one of the staples of the agreement you iron out, we’ll that’s debatable. It’s up to the people that decide to hammer out a deal and get married.

[Nuntius]

Look at Lebron. Desperate to play ball with his son, but his son is too short and not good enough. Who’s fault is that?

Since height is hereditary it goes without saying that the height of both parents is going to affect the height of the child. That's a given. My "you have to be joking" comment was about you saying that NBA players (or any human, in general) should care about their kid's height so much that it affects who they marry. The goal of a marriage (or any kind of romantic relationship) isn't to produce the perfect offspring. It's to, you know, love each other and spending your life together. Nothing else matters.

False notion. Marriage is not about love. If it blossoms into that, that’s great. That’s not really the purpose though. It’s about duty. A man’s duty to his wife. A wife’s duty to her husband. They hopefully create children they have a duty to. And the children have a duty to their parents. It’s an arrangement/deal that is made that is supposed to benefit all parties and society as a whole. The romanticization of marriage (and the romantic dating nonsense that lasts years) has corrupted society for far too long. It’s kind of sad.

Now as for whether it makes sense to have “creating athletically gifted/tall children” as one of the staples of the agreement you iron out, we’ll that’s debatable. It’s up to the people that decide to hammer out a deal and get married.

The fact is that most people pursue relationships out of love and/or physical attraction. If you view it a different way, that's cool, you do you. But no one can dictate the criteria that people use when they pursue a relationship and that was my main disagreement with the post that I initially disagreed with. shakes0 was criticizing NBA players that married petite women and, well, no one gets to decide who someone else gets to mate with. That's just not how this works.

PS: And, seriously, what the **** was that "romanticization" has corrupted society for far too long?

[GSWFan1994]

False notion. Marriage is not about love. If it blossoms into that, that’s great. That’s not really the purpose though. It’s about duty. A man’s duty to his wife. A wife’s duty to her husband. They hopefully create children they have a duty to. And the children have a duty to their parents. It’s an arrangement/deal that is made that is supposed to benefit all parties and society as a whole. The romanticization of marriage (and the romantic dating nonsense that lasts years) has corrupted society for far too long. It’s kind of sad.

Now as for whether it makes sense to have “creating athletically gifted/tall children” as one of the staples of the agreement you iron out, we’ll that’s debatable. It’s up to the people that decide to hammer out a deal and get married.

Chances are that you are single and will continue to be for quite a while.

[formula 400]

Delonte West 6'3"
LeBron James 6'9"

damn bro, you caught me off guard!!! hella clean diss

[Loaded_Hollows]

False notion. Marriage is not about love. If it blossoms into that, that’s great. That’s not really the purpose though. It’s about duty. A man’s duty to his wife. A wife’s duty to her husband. They hopefully create children they have a duty to. And the children have a duty to their parents. It’s an arrangement/deal that is made that is supposed to benefit all parties and society as a whole. The romanticization of marriage (and the romantic dating nonsense that lasts years) has corrupted society for far too long. It’s kind of sad.

Now as for whether it makes sense to have “creating athletically gifted/tall children” as one of the staples of the agreement you iron out, we’ll that’s debatable. It’s up to the people that decide to hammer out a deal and get married.

Chances are that you are single and will continue to be for quite a while.

No u

[Loaded_Hollows]

Since height is hereditary it goes without saying that the height of both parents is going to affect the height of the child. That's a given. My "you have to be joking" comment was about you saying that NBA players (or any human, in general) should care about their kid's height so much that it affects who they marry. The goal of a marriage (or any kind of romantic relationship) isn't to produce the perfect offspring. It's to, you know, love each other and spending your life together. Nothing else matters.

False notion. Marriage is not about love. If it blossoms into that, that’s great. That’s not really the purpose though. It’s about duty. A man’s duty to his wife. A wife’s duty to her husband. They hopefully create children they have a duty to. And the children have a duty to their parents. It’s an arrangement/deal that is made that is supposed to benefit all parties and society as a whole. The romanticization of marriage (and the romantic dating nonsense that lasts years) has corrupted society for far too long. It’s kind of sad.

Now as for whether it makes sense to have “creating athletically gifted/tall children” as one of the staples of the agreement you iron out, we’ll that’s debatable. It’s up to the people that decide to hammer out a deal and get married.

The fact is that most people pursue relationships out of love and/or physical attraction. If you view it a different way, that's cool, you do you. But no one can dictate the criteria that people use when they pursue a relationship and that was my main disagreement with the post that I initially disagreed with. shakes0 was criticizing NBA players that married petite women and, well, no one gets to decide who someone else gets to mate with. That's just not how this works.

PS: And, seriously, what the **** was that "romanticization" has corrupted society for far too long?

First paragraph: TLDR; “I disagree with you because I think with my emotions!!!”

As for the second, if you really don’t see any problems that have arisen as a result of people picking “for love” then I truly envy you

[Nuntius]

First paragraph: TLDR; “I disagree with you because I think with my emotions!!!”

First of all, there is absolutely nothing wrong with having emotions. If anything, I would argue that ignoring your emotions and repressing them can only lead to a miserable existence.

But the thing is that my post wasn't even about my personal opinion. It wasn't about how I think. It was about how people act. And the fact is that the majority of people pursue relationships out of love and/or physical attraction. They don't pursue a relationship with the goal of producing tall children like shakes0 seemed to support.

As for the second, if you really don’t see any problems that have arisen as a result of people picking “for love” then I truly envy you

I think that humanity has a lot of problems. I don't think that pursuing a relationship based on love and/or physical attraction is one of these problems or that it has created any of humanity's problems.

[Fencer reregistered]

Kobe Bryant and Al Horford both are/were shorter than their dads.

So is Jaylen Brown, by a lot, although his dad boxed rather than play hoops.

[MrGoat]

Delonte West 6'3"
LeBron James 6'9"

If someone bumps the Bronny is only 6' 3" thread I will remind them that his grandpa made it in the NBA at 6' 3"

[MrGoat]

Wilt Chamberlain &

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Kristaps Porzingis and Shawn Bradley.

[AdagioPace]

Man, this thread escalated quickly with daddy jokes and eugenics projects

[batmana]

Man, this thread escalated quickly with daddy jokes and eugenics projects

And yet no mention of Yao Ming. (In case you're not familiar, both his parents were professional athletes and they were "matched up" with the goal to create a super-athlete. I'm sure someone with more spare time and less lazy than me will post his parents' heights but I believe his mom was easily above 6 feet tall.)

[Jabroni Lames]

Marc Gasol 7’1”
Joel Embiid 7’2”

[Gusto1903]

Idk man, my parents are both 5'8 at best and after i got a growth spurt when i was 17, i stand here in front of you, 6'3 tall. Also nobody on both sides of my family is considerably taller than my parents. So i dont believe that genes do that much, to your height. I just think, the humans evolve in height as a whole

[NaturalThunder]

Idk man, my parents are both 5'8 at best and after i got a growth spurt when i was 17, i stand here in front of you, 6'3 tall. Also nobody on both sides of my family is considerably taller than my parents. So i dont believe that genes do that much, to your height. I just think, the humans evolve in height as a whole

Height is definitely, without question, is overwhelmingly genetic. Is it the only factor? Absolutely not. There are outliers and statistical anomalies as there is with everything. And your mom, at 5'8", is well above average female height so there is something there.