It has been known for a long time KD was listed at 6’9 which may have been his height entering the league, but after a few years he grew (very evidently) and was closer to 7ft. After 10+ years the NBA listed him at 6’10 and this year, finally he is listed at 6’11 officially.
They are listing him with shoes on.
He’s probably really around 6’10 and some change and has been since his 4th or 5th season.
Why the hell are they so insistent on lying about these players’ height?
He honestly looks taller than 6’11 sometimes
Because he is.
No he doesn’t when you see KD next to 7 footers like embiid he looks an inch or two shorter
Let’s gooooo
Larry Bird is 6’10 then
Pretty sure people were skeptical about 6’9” even when he entered the league.
Only 15 more yrs for it to update to 7’0
50 year old KD will be a 7 fter
Finally, our long national nightmare is over.
I don’t want to introduce any other topic besides basketball in this conversation, but I just read the entire speech that is from for the first time, and holy shit.
What speech is it?
Better late than never
“For me, when I’m talking to women I’m 7 feet. In basketball circles I’m 6’9." -Kevin Durant (wsj.com)
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/4hrkou/for_me_when_im_talking_to_women_im_7_feet_in/
He was literally measured as 6’ 9"and 3 quarters by the nets in 2019.
Either he has some condition to grow still or NBA heights went back to being “billed height” WWE style.
Now do Tatum.
I think that’s an interesting conspiracy. I saw Chris Paul in a mall once and I swear he looked as tall as me, I’m 6,5
Chris Paul, 6,5
I’m afraid you might have been 5’10 all this time my brother.
Hahaha that was a good joke but I swear he looked much closer to me than 180cm
Maybe because he’s built like a god and I’m all bent over and no muscles
I’ve stood next to him while he was standing next to Myles Turner. Myles was at least 2 inches taller than Durant, and is also listed at 6’11”. I don’t think Durant is any taller than 6’10”.
Walton was 7’1 and was always listed as 6’11
At this rate, 50 year old KD might be 8 feet tall
Is it really that difficult to measure someone?
I don’t get it… How can someone list themselves as being taller than they are? Doesn’t someone stand there with the measuring device and say “yep ok 195cm (6 ft 5)”
Athlete: cool I’m 202cm! Examiner: no… You’re 195… Athlete: cool can’t wait to update my insta! Examiner: please list this man as 195 on the roster Athlete: please list me as 202cm without shoes
I think players have some input on what they get listed at. Also since there are a couple centimetres gaps between the inches they can always claim to have been rounding incorrectly, for example LeBron isn’t 6’9 but he’s taller than 6’8
Just a strange thing to me. It happens here too (in Germany). Even in the junior teams (mostly in the state level/nation level competition) the players list themselves as 2cm taller than they are. A player on the team I was an athletic trainer for in U/19 state level, listed themselves as 185cm (shortest on the team). I’m a tiny bit taller than this athlete. I’m 181cm.
CP3 for example is listed as 6’0. I think this is his correct height. However it’s often the taller players which lie. Maybe it’s position related… As in, a player under the height of 6’5 is going to be a guard 90% of the time in the NBA, so you don’t really need to make yourself taller because your position is already confirmed. Whereby a player who is actually 6’8 can probably play SF or PF. Maybe they prefer PF so they end up at 6’10 and less chance of being a SF. Could be total bullshit what I’m theorising but it makes a little sense as to one of the reasons why they might lie a little