Who are the tallest and shortest basketball players?

Question

include current and past players.

Answer 1

Favorite Answer

su ming ming isnt in the nba yet but is 7'9 nd in another league.

currently:

tallest:yao(7'6)

shortest:earl boykins(5'5)

all time:

tallest:Manute Bol(7'7)

shortest:Muggsy tyrone boughes(5'3)

Answer 2

Tallest- Yao Ming, Greg Oden, Doctor J.

Smallest-Earl Boykins, Spudd Webb, Nate Robinson

Answer 3

How many of these shorter players do you see with big numbers in rebounds or blocks?! Also a dominant tall defender can cause drama for the entire opposing team. A dominant short player is only going to lock down one player. Small men get up to dunk & during the game the very briefly visit the land of big men for a few seconds each play. However, they're no up there to dominate so many of the big man game.

Answer 4

boykins and yao are the current shortest and tallest

mugsy is the shortest ever

muresan is the tallest ever

hhhmm... come to think of it, can we still count boykins as the current shortest if he's not on any team's roster?

Answer 5

The shortest player ever to play in the NBA is Muggsy Bogues at 1.60 meters (5 ft 3 in). Other shorter players have also experienced success at the professional level. Anthony "Spud" Webb was just 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m) tall, but had a 42-inch (1.07 m) vertical leap, giving him significant height when jumping. Currently the shortest player in the NBA is Earl Boykins of the Denver Nuggets. He is 5 feet 5 inchs.

Tallest:

SULEIMAN ALI NASHNUSH

Libya

8 ft 0.4 inches (244.86 cm)

1943 - February 25 1991

Tripoli, Libya

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleiman_Ali_Nashnush

http://www.eurobasket.com/over210.asp

ZHANG JUN-CAI

Beijing (China)

7 ft 11.28 inches (242.00 cm) (unconfirmed height)

April 21 1966 - fl. 2007

Dingxiang County, Shan-Xi Province, China

http://www.geocities.com/hzq29/giant.htm

http://www.china.org.cn/Beijing-Review/Beijing/Bei...

ALEXANDER SIZONENKO

Stroitel Kuibyshev (USSR)

Ural Great Perm (USSR)

7 ft 10.09 inches (239.00 cm) (unconfirmed height)

July 20 1959 - fl. 2007

Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Sizonenko

http://www.klm-hannover.de/medien/z-980823.htm

SULTAN KÖSEN

Galatasaray (Turkey)

7 ft 9 inches (236.22 cm) (unconfirmed height)

1982 - fl. 2007

Derik, Mardin Province, Turkey

http://img.blogcu.com/uploads/Esrasungur_Web_65746...

http://www.tgrthaber.com.tr/news_view.aspx?guid=cc...

SUN MING MING

Daqing (China)

Dodge City Legend (USA)

Maryland Nighthawks (USA)

Grand Rapids Flight (USA)

7 ft 8.75 inches (235.59 cm)

August 23 1983 - fl. 2007

Bayan, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

http://www.sevenfootnine.net/welcome.html

http://www.savesunmingming.com/

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nx6EP-kxOg4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOKnw6p1qC0

Source(s): http://tallestbasketballplayers.blogspot.com/

Answer 6

well now

smallest earl boykins 5 ft 5

tallest Yao Ming 7 ft 5/6"

Answer 7

I only know current 1... tallest yao ming.... shortest nate robinson??? I think boykins not playing this season... right?

Answer 8

the tallest basketball player is yao ming and the shortest is probably steve nash

Answer 9

Tall people is Greg Oden, Yao Ming, Anderson Varejao, Zydrunas Ilgauska, Shaq and some other

Answer 10

Shawn Bradley at 7'6" and Yao Ming at 7'6"shortest Earl Boykins at 5'5"

Source(s): http://www.nba.com/features/playersurvey2003_heigh...

Answer 11

tallest player is yao ming at 7'6

shortest player is earl boykin at 5'2