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This is a list of the tallest players in National Basketball Association history. It is currently topped by the 7-foot-7-inch (2.31 m) Romanian Gheorghe Mureșan, taken by the Washington Bullets as the number 30 overall pick in the 1993 NBA draft. [1] As of 2024, twenty-eight players have been listed at 7 feet 3 inches (2.21 m) or taller.
Kara Elizabeth Wolters [1] (born August 15, 1975) is a retired American collegiate and professional basketball player and a current sports broadcaster. Standing at six feet seven inches (2.01 m) and nicknamed "Big Girl," she is the tallest player in University of Connecticut women's basketball history and one of the tallest women to ever play in the WNBA.
In 1999, she was also named the best female basketball player in Europe by the Italian sports magazine La Gazzetta dello Sport. Dydek was chosen as Poland's Sports Woman of the Year and was a member of the Poland women's national basketball team until 2007, winning the EuroBasket Women 1999. She helped lead Gdynia to runner-up finishes in the ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 November 2024. Canadian basketball player (born 2002) Zach Edey Edey with Purdue in 2022 No. 14 – Memphis Grizzlies Position Centre League NBA Personal information Born (2002-05-14) May 14, 2002 (age 22) Toronto, Ontario, Canada Listed height 7 ft 4 in (2.24 m) Listed weight 305 lb (138 kg) Career ...
Olivier Rioux (born February 2, 2006) is a Canadian college basketball player for the Florida Gators of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). [1] Guinness World Records declared him the tallest teenager in the world in 2021, he measured 7 ft 5 in (2.26 m) at age 15. [2] He now stands 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m) [3] tall.
Victor Wembanyama (/ ˌ w ɛ m b ə n ˈ j ɑː m ə / WEM-bən-YAH-mə; [1] French: [viktɔʁ wɛmbanjama]; born 4 January 2004), nicknamed "Wemby" [2] or "the Alien", is a French professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
At a height of 203 cm, she has been the sixth-tallest player in the league (along with Zheng Haixia and Lindsay Taylor). Margo Dydek , 7 ft 2 in (218 cm), Bernadett Határ , 6 ft 10.5 in (210 cm), Han Xu , 6 ft 11 in (211 cm), Brittney Griner and Liz Cambage , both 6 ft 9 in (206 cm), are taller than her.
Zorana Todorović (Serbian Cyrillic: Зорана Тодоровић; born December 30, 1989) is a Serbian women's basketball player. [1] [2]Todorović in one interview made clear her fondness of her height and expressed her wish to grow taller than Poland's Margo Dydek and thus become the world's tallest female basketball player.