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Sun Mingming (Chinese: 孙明明; pinyin: Sūn Míngmíng, born August 23, 1983) is a Chinese former professional basketball player. He was the tallest professional basketball player in the world and was measured by the Guinness World Records as 2.36 m (7 ft 9 in) tall and weighing 168 kg (370 lb).
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.
At 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) Aaron Sandilands, Mason Cox and Peter Street equal the tallest players to have played in the AFL. [18] Brownlow medal winners have ranged in height from Tony Liberatore at 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) to Scott Wynd at 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in). In 2013, professional AFL players ranged 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) to 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in). [19]
Here's the crazy part -- there have been several players in history who are nearly as tall, just as tall, or even taller! Check out the tallest pro basketball players of all time:
Ri Myung-hun (Korean: 리명훈; born 14 September 1967), also known as Michael Ri after his favorite basketball player Michael Jordan, [1] is a North Korean former basketball player. At a height of 235 cm (7 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) and a weight of 128 kg (282 lb), he is believed to be the tallest person in North Korea [broken anchor].
Though Wegner's height is indisputable, the Guinness Book of World Records has yet to verify if he is indeed the tallest pro basketball player. As of 2012, Paul Sturgess of the Harlem ...
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Jamarion Demontrez Sharp [1] (born August 26, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Texas Legends of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for John A. Logan College, Western Kentucky, and Ole Miss. At 7 ft 5 in (2.26 m), he was one of the tallest Division I players ever