Manute BOL (pictured - left) and Gheorghe Muresan still remains the highest in the history of the NBA pivot - and, it seems, so they will remain forever. Basketball - Game tall people. That's just how high? Average growth of players is increasing every year.
Their athleticism - too. However, the Giants above 2 meters 20 centimeters, which back in the 90's and the first half of the 2000s, missing on both sides of the ocean, this afternoon with fire not find. In the NBA at the moment there is only one such basketball player - central Hashim Thabit of "Oklahoma", his height is 221 cm on the NBA Draft as marker freshman last elected in 2009. And you know, what was the name the guy? Hashim. Named Tabitha. Joking aside, the demand for the "anomalous" giants in professional basketball really goes to zero. In parallel with the way more and more difficult to find yourself in the game, the playmaker "Informer" below 180 cm, which used to be a dime a dozen. It is in the 80 206-cm Magic Johnson to the position of the first "room" looked alien. Now raskachennyh point guard for two meters are nothing new. That in Europe, in North America. But to imagine that some NBA club drafted under the number 2 Shawn Bradley, as did "Philadelphia" in the summer of 1993, today is unreal. Obviously, the planet is not fail the new Manute parabolas or George Mureshanami. Surely these guys try their hand at basketball. Someone even make it their profession. However, their natural advantages and at the same time create insurmountable barriers to entry are truly serious level - Euroleague, much less the NBA. Without speed, coordination and endurance "height at the withers" devalued. Not accidentally major purchase CSKA this season became the 198-centimeter center-Kyle Hines, and not, say, a goner Slavko Vranjes, and tried to force UNICS and "Portland", and as a result lost in a provincial club "Metalac" from the Serbian town Valjevo.
Yes, in the realities of modern basketball and you can get lost with an increase in 226 cm - so much Vranjes dosed once in the NBA. If these figures are true (although some sources give different information - 230 cm), the monastery of the highest player of our championship with Montenegrin still divides Pavel Podkolzin. However, from this "neighborhood" ex-centering "Varese", "Dallas" and "Khimki" is not easier. Although Podkolzina only 28, of the main Russian giant basketball experts and fans had time to forget. For many, probably, does come as a surprise that Paul has not retired and is now preparing for the sixth season in the Off-serving elite "Novosibirsk". But what about Yao Ming, a reader asks about dotoshlivy? Really great Chinese would not have been a superstar NBA today, the status of which it is due to a chronic ankle injury ended his career in 2011? Perhaps it would be. But not because of its 229 cm, and above all - a light head. At the same time, however, Yao hardly would get the highest number in the NBA Draft, which gave him "Houston" in 2002. All-knowing statistics says: "supergiants" NBA champions are not. Example Chuck Nevitt, who won a ring as a deaf spare "Lakers" -84/85 - that is the exception that proves the rule. On the other hand - together with the center a la Muresan or Alexander Sizonenko (the best basketball player in the history not only of the Soviet, but also the world of basketball), which would be impossible to keep up with the speed of the current NBA, gradually fade out of it and just the fifth classic "rooms . " Let us remember that the growth of Arvydas Sabonis - 221 cm This same as Tabitha. But how rich arsenal (hook, polukryuk with both hands, the perfect vision of the site, shot from the middle and long distances) had a famous Lithuanian and how primitive his background at times look even much less-than-Thabit, and thus would seem to be obliged to more nimble and fast followers ... Sabonis contemporaries were David Robinson, Hakeem Olajuwon, Patrick Ewing, Shaquille O'Neal (although the last one - it is a separate category, do not fall under any standards). Before them in the NBA was dominated by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell. Now try to continue this list as an outstanding fifth "numbers" XXI century. Dwight Howard, for all its dynamism and shirokoplechesti, sorry, do not pull. Maybe sdyuzhili 218-inch big man out of "Indiana" Roy Hibbert? According to experts, "SE", all the makings for 26-year-centering "Indiana" which spring almost single-handedly defeated in the semifinals of the playoffs, "Miami" (in the NBA champions, by the way, there is no full-fledged "center") for that.
Pivot above 220 cm in NBA history
Height
|
Player
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Seasons (clubs)
|
Games
|
Bounds
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Block shots
|
Glasses
|
231
|
Gheorghe Muresan Romania
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6 ("Washington": 93/94 - 96/97, "New Jersey": 98/99, 99/00)
|
307
|
6.4
|
1.5
|
9.8
|
231
|
Manute BOL Sudan
|
10 ("WA" 85/86 - 87/88, 94, "Golden State": 88/89, 89/90, 94/95, "Philadelphia" 90/91 - 92/93, 94, "Miami" 93/94)
|
624
|
4.2
|
3.3
|
2.6
|
229
|
Shawn Bradley Germany
|
12 ("Philadelphia": 93/94, 94/95, "New Jersey": 95/96, 96/97, "Dallas": 97/98 - 04/05)
|
832
|
6.3
|
2.5
|
8.1
|
229
|
Yao Ming China
|
9 ("Houston": 02/03 - 10/11)
|
481
|
9.3
|
1.9
|
19.1
|
226
|
Chuck Nevitt U.S.
|
9 ("Houston": 82/83, 88/89, 89/90, "the Lakers' 84/85," Detroit "85/86 - 87/88," Chicago ": 91/92," San Antonio "92/93)
|
155
|
1.5
|
0.7
|
1.6
|
226
|
Russian Pavel Podkolzin
|
2 ("Dallas": 04/05, 05/06)
|
6
|
1.5
|
0.1
|
0.7
|
226
|
Slavko Vranjes Montenegro
|
1 ("Portland" 03/04)
|
1
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
224
|
Mark Eaton USA
|
11 ("Utah": 82/83 - 92/93)
|
875
|
7.9
|
3.5
|
6.0
|
224
|
Rik Smits Netherlands
|
12 ("IN": 88/89 - 99/00)
|
867
|
6.1
|
1.3
|
14.8
|
224
|
Ralph SEPSON U.S.
|
9 ("Houston": 83/84 - 86/87, "Golden State": 87/88, 88/89, "Sacramento": 89/90, 90/91, "Washington": 91/92)
|
456
|
8.8
|
1.6
|
15.4
|
224
|
Priest Lauderdale U.S.
|
2 ("Atlanta" 96/97 "Denver": 97/98)
|
74
|
1.9
|
0.4
|
3.4
|
221
|
Randy Brewer U.S.
|
10 ("Milwaukee": 83/84 - 89/90, "Minnesota": 90/91, 91/92, "Atlanta" 92/93 "Sacramento" 93)
|
681
|
4.4
|
1.1
|
6.8
|
221
|
Keith Kloss U.S.
|
3 ("Clippers": 97/98 - 99/00)
|
130
|
2.9
|
1.3
|
3.9
|
221
|
Marketing Authorisation HELBRUK U.S.
|
2 ("Syracuse" 60/61, 61/62)
|
143
|
6.6
|
-
|
5.5
|
221
|
Zydrunas Ilgauskas Lithuania
|
14 ("Cleveland" 97/98 - 09/10, "Miami" 10/11)
|
771
|
7.7
|
1.6
|
13.8
|
221
|
Aleksandar Radoevich Bosnia
|
2 ("Toronto": 99/00, "Utah" 04/05)
|
15
|
2.4
|
0.2
|
1.7
|
221
|
Peter John RAMOS Puerto Rico
|
1 ("Washington": 04/05)
|
6
|
0.7
|
0.2
|
1.8
|
221
|
Lithuania Arvydas Sabonis
|
7 ("Portland": 95/96 - 00/01, 02/03)
|
470
|
7.3
|
1.1
|
12.0
|
221
|
HA SAINT JEAN Korea
|
1 ("Portland" 05/06)
|
46
|
1.5
|
0.3
|
1.5
|
221
|
Hashim Thabit Tanzania
|
4 ("Memphis": 09/10, 10/11, "Houston" 11/12, "Portland": 12, "Oklahoma City": 12/13)
|
135
|
2.7
|
0.8
|
2.2
|
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