NBA height over the years. 69 Years of Height Evolution in the NBA [4,379 players analyzed]

[I AM WE ARE]

Lol Shawn"please slam on me" Bradley helped those numbers

 

[UpAndComing]

The Centers from 1961 to 1971 hover around 6'10 to 7'0

NBA Agenda to act like anything before 1970 was 5'5 white guys won't like this

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

They said the average player is 6'6" 216 lbs huh?

Guess everyone STILL wants to be like Mike

 

[Admiral Ackbar]

Welcome to positionless basketball.

 

[KidJSoul]

Positionless basketball favoring "tweeners". This has put stiff bigs out of the game

Different measurement standards. I skimmed through OP, but do we know if they changed the standards?

 

[Dorian Breh]

Standardization of height is why

Believe the average center was 7'2 in the 80s brehs

 

[Bryan Danielson]

are all the stiffs just not making the league anymore

Or all the stiffs just not making the league anymore

And all the stiffs just not making the league anymore

 

[ISO]

fukk the stiffs no more Chris Dudleys making the league

 

[CHICAGO]

fukk the stiffs no more Chris Dudleys making the league

WE STILL GOT BOBANS, BOL BOLS
AND TACKO FALLS TAKING ROSTER SPOTS THO.



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[ISO]

WE STILL GOT BOBANS, BOL BOLS
AND TACKO FALLS TAKING ROSTER SPOTS THO.



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Bol Bol is not a stiff he’s skilled and mobile he ain’t on a roster just because he’s tall he’s considered a guard-like big and has held his own switching onto smalls on P&R’s.

Tacko Fall was more of a fan attraction he never played and he’s out the league now and Boban is a walking bucket.

 

[CHICAGO]

Play of style, spacing and positionless basketball. No need for the slow 7'2 Luc Longley big men when a 6'9 Chris Boucher can space the floor and recover better on D.

WHATS THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN LONGLEY AND ZUBAC?



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[Wargames]

Some of these results could just be the league is taking more accurate measurements of the players. Especially in regards to shorter overall height.

 

[Diondon]

Bigger stronger faster
6' 7" nikkas playing the 5
Shaq/Olajuwon would terrorize this league

 

[UpAndComing]

WHATS THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN LONGLEY AND ZUBAC?



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It's sad alot of people try to so hard to say "things have changed" when 85% of the game is the same as it was in the 1960s. ESPN really warped alot of basketball fans' minds

Zubac and Longley have a skill in the NBA that can't be taught. They are 7 foot tall, over 250 pounds, and slightly faster on their feet than a majority of people their size. That need would never go away

 

[steph_harden]

The stiffs arent making league anymore

I remember every team had 2-3 big goofy cac dudes....the Purdues, Koncaks, McIlvaines, Kleine, Joe Wolfs, Mihms, Dudleys arent in the league anymore

Boban is last of a dying breed

And Boban is hella skilled..