Yao Ming makes Shaq look small

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Yao HAS to be taller than 7'6, because Shaq is a legit 7'1.

Looks like he got taller or Shaq is getting shorter as he ages -

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Yao HAS to be taller than 7'6, because Shaq is a legit 7'1.
I always thought Shaq was closer to 7'2 but maybe that's the shoes. Yao's gotta be like 7'9 :dahell: in shoes.
Shame yao didn't come into the league until 02/ or was it 03? Imagine prime shaq vs prime yao :ohh: Yao was the last great C, only ever saw shaq give him trouble
 

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He was a particularly shytty rebounder when they went out against the Jazz.
 

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Isn't the story Yao was bred to play ball
Pops was 6'7 moms was 6'3
Tall ass bloodline*

China on that next shyt:merchant:*​

Pretty much.

Yao was a monster, tho I kinda saw the injury thing coming. People forget that as much as the NBA covets size, humans weren't really meant to be that big, and most people over 7' are actually rather brittle or live with disability.
 

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According to the Rockets, Yao measured 7-5.75 without shoes his second season (up from 7-5 even the prior season). Though in that tweet Shaq said Yao claimed he was "7-4"... either Yao was joking or maybe he was being honest and the Rockets blurred the lines of in-shoes and out of shoes measurements for marketing/hype reasons.

Either way, according to draftexpress, Shaq measured 7-0 without shoes, and according to self admission on Howard Stern Shaq admitted he was more precisely 6-11.5 without shoes.

So yeah, bout half a foot difference or nearly so in their height. That's a lot.
 
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