We have already told you how, thanks to basketball, athletes can grow even into adulthood. Continuing this topic – we have prepared for some more interesting information – about the hights of basketball players. Which of them in early childhood was much taller than their peers? Did they become successful in basketball? Has their height been relevant?
Montenegrin basketball player Slavko Vranesh was born in 1983. He is 7′ 6 1/2″ tall and is also one of the tallest basketball players in the world. Throughout his career, Slavko played for Serbia, Turkey, Iran and spent one season even in Kazan “UNICS”. In the NBA, this athlete played only one game. He was on the floor for only 3 minutes. Now Vranesh is a favorite of the Serb Metalac team.
Manute Bol. Unlike most very tall people, Manute had no pituitary gland disorders and owed his height to his parents, whose height was slightly more than 2 meters. Moreover, this basketball player is also one of the worst NBA players. Most of his teammates weigh more If the weight more than 100 kilograms, Manute Bol weighs only 95.
The title of the tallest NBA player goes to Gheorghe Muresan from Romania with a height of 91,3386. In addition to his sports career, Gheorghe masters other activities. For example, he starred in films and videos. You can see the actor’s talents in the comedy “My Giant”.
Alexander Sizonenko was born In 1990, he is named in the Guinness Book of Records because his height reached 2.39 meters. He set a record as the tallest person not only in the USSR but throughout the world. Throughout his life, Alexander played for the Leningrad Spartak, the Kuibyshev Builder, and was also a candidate for the USSR national team. His game was distinguished by a very developed positional flair, he had a good command of the passes, but experts believed that because of his growth he was not as fast as the game required. In 1986, he had to leave the sport due to health problems. Subsequently, he also starred in the film, the Czechoslovak fairy tale “The Brave Tailor”, where he played the role of a giant. Alexander Sizonenko continued to grow his whole life. Problems with his pituitary gland did not stop. Although doctors twice operated on Alexander’s brain. In the seventies, he was told that he would live a maximum of twenty years. But he lived much longer and passed away on January 5, 2012. By this time, he was already over 2,39 meters.
Suleiman Ali Nashnush is recognized as the tallest basketball player in the history of basketball. The growth of this Libyan athlete was over 8 feet. In 1962, he played for the Libyan basketball team. But Suleiman was never able to build a good sports career. He was operated on. Also, Suleiman was prescribed iron supplements to stop abnormal growth. The athlete lived only 47 years, having died in 1991. But there was another significant event in his life – in 1969, he starred in the film of Federico Fellini’s “Satyricon”.
Now it’s time to find out the name of the tallest basketball player in the modern world. Sun Min Ming is only slightly smaller than the legendary Suleiman Ali Nushnush. His height is 7’9″. With his height, Sun Ming Ming, refutes the generally accepted opinion of the Chinese as being the shortest ethnic group. He played in several teams of the lower US basketball leagues: USBL team Dodge City Legend, the Maryland Nighthawks of the ABA and the Grand Rapids Flight of the IBL
June 20, 2007, Sun signed a contract with the Mexican professional team Fuerza Regia from Monterrey. But he left the team due to the operation in November 2007. Then he signed an agreement with Hamamatsu Phoenix from the BJ League in Japan. Currently, he averages 8.6 points and 5.9 rebounds per game. Not a single club in this league invited him to play. He was not considered to be physical fit. However, the basketball player still has hope and is doing everything he can to match the level of his idol Yao Ming. It should be noted, that if it were not for the operation on his pituitary gland, Sun Min Ming would have continued to grow. The basketball player’s weight is also rather high – 160 kg. His size was noticed by Hollywood, and the athlete was lucky to play in a film with Jackie Chan. And, according to uznayvse.ru, his cinematic career may be more successful than his sports career..
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