And neither is a puny wingspan a sign of puny basketball ability. Shaquille O’Neal Shaquille O’Neal comes in 6th for overall Jersey sales of NBA players with his best selling year in 2005.
By joining Slate Plus you support our work and get exclusive content. Standing 7ft1 high, Shaq attracted attention because of his height. 12. And you'll never see this message again. In 1992, Shaq measured 71 without shoes, weighed 303 pounds, recorded a 35 inch vertical and had his wingspan measured at 77. As far as I know Shaq still holds this combine record at 12 feet five inches. The 18-year-old Vonleh is a classic NBA type: the tall guy who’s even taller when you measure him from fingertip to fingertip. It’s probably a bit soon to speculate too far into the new front office regime’s opinion on Shaq, but rolling with all three on the roster for much longer might not make a ton of sense, given the Bulls’ position. SUBSCRIBE TO THE BULLS TALK PODCAST FOR FREE. Stretched-out limbs are no guarantee of pro success. Anya, once an out of shape under the radar high school player, has developed nicely into one of the premier players in the 2013 Class. All contents © 2020 The Slate Group LLC. (That’s a bit stretchier than the usual draft crop: According to DraftExpress’s historical numbers, the average NBA prospect is 4.4 inches longer than he is tall.) Case in point, former #1 overall pick Greg Oden was measured as having a 7‘4.25 inch wingspan coming out of college, coincidentally the same as NBA scoring champion Kevin Durant. Deft hands and shifty footwork around screens have led to quite a few poke-outs and swipe-down blocks in his young NBA career. 169: Steph Curry’s Availability, OKC v SA, and Luke Walton. Jerami Grant Wingspan/height ratio: 1.105. Shaq was measured as having a 7’7 span. Shaq also drinks a lot of water.
Because he is a below the rim type player, many have compared Anya’s game to that of former Kentucky standout DeMarcus Cousins, with a larger reach. You can cancel anytime. DraftExpress lists one player whose arms are 4¼ inches longer than those of any other prospect they’ve ever recorded.
Talk about a small sample. Ndiaye is still in school, but if he does make it to the NBA, we should recognize him for what he is: the league’s only 8-footer.
With a turn towards league-average jump shooting, he should continue to be a fine defensive specialist capable of hounding an opponent’s best guard or wing for spot minutes. Upcoming NBA Season Will Not Start Before Christmas, A Ball Family Update: LaMelo Ball Headed Back to High School, LiAngelo Ball to Enter G-League Player Pool, Shaq-Dwight Howard Going After Each Other Again, Shaq and Barkley go at it on Inside the NBA, Shaquille O’Neal Thinks He and Penny Hardaway Would’ve Won an NBA Title If He Stayed with Magic, A Beginners Guide To Betting On Basketball, THD Podcast, Ep. Menu. Kelly Oubre Jr. Wingspan/height ratio: 1.109. Nevertheless, I was thrilled to learn that the league’s scouting jamboree was happening this week. Shaquille O’Neal Favorite Things. According to one study, the average adult man has an arm span 2.1 inches longer than his height. No, he’s not 6-foot-7, but Harrison is a defensive wrecking ball, nonetheless. But that’s not a fault of his, more a symptom of his role. Rondae Hollis-Jefferson Wingspan/height ratio: 1.110.
While… For those of you who are only old enough to know Shaq as a bumbling giant hawking butt-crack powder on tv, this is only one of the reasons he was the greatest prospect of my lifetime. A bevy of advanced metrics, though derived from a tiny sample size, back up Shaq’s impact. It’s because of players like Stokes that wingspan should emerge from the shadowy statistical underground. 11. Even while registering just 484 minutes over 43 games in 2019-20 (11.3 per, lowest of his career), Shaq left fingerprints all over the appearances he made. He does a good job taking up space in the lane and creating open spots on the floor for shooters on the perimeter when the offense runs through him on the block. NBC Sports Chicago is breaking down the 15 full-time players on the Bulls' roster. Wingspan deserves to be an official statistic, one that’s listed on every player’s ESPN.com bio and featured prominently on every NBA broadcast. David Epstein, the author of the excellent book The Sports Gene, says that most people have an arm length-to-height ratio of 1.01-to-1. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. And I hope they send the tape measure to the Hall of Fame. Wingspan can also be a great equalizer, a way for shorter players like Jarnell Stokes to match their longer-necked peers. His freakish length is almost unheard of considering that Anya stands only 6’8″ tall. Still, it pulled his season-long mark to 38.1% and he looked increasingly comfortable rising and firing. Past: Zach LaVine | Coby White | Tomas Satoransky | Kris Dunn | Ryan Arcidiacono | Otto Porter Jr. | Chandler Hutchison | Denzel Valentine, 4.9 PPG, 2.0 RPG, 0.8 SPG | 46.7% FG, 38.1% 3P, 78% FT | 17.6% USG. However, one of his most intriguing characteristics is that his wingspan is four inches longer than the average center in the NBA despite standing significantly shorter than the average center.
His crazy-long wingspan of seven feet and nine inches led him to clinch the NBA blocks leader in the 2016-2017 basketball season.
If you toggle the minutes minimum down to 479, Five Thirty Eight rates him second among point guards in defensive RAPTOR, and fifth in overall RAPTOR (don’t trust everything you read on the internet, kids). Shaquille O'Neal DraftExpress Profile: scouting reports, videos, stats and logs. The DraftExpress numbers (from measurements taken when he was a high-schooler) have Ndiaye’s wingspan as 8 feet, 1 inches, while a recent Sports on Earth piece reports that it’s 8 feet, 3 inches. His name is Mamadou Ndiaye, he stands 7 feet, 6 inches, and he averaged 8 points per game during his freshman season at UC–Irvine. Drafted #1 in the 1992 NBA Draft by the Magic. I love the NBA draft combine very, very much. Shaq’s deceptively stretchy wingspan and standout athleticism make him a terror in passing lanes, and his radar for loose balls (plus, the energy to both create and chase them) is nearly unmatched. Caboclo has the same wingspan as Shaq despite standing four inches shorter. “Zach LaVine has taught me a few pointers,” Harrison joked after a 5-for-6 night from deep against the Pacers on March 6.
Beejay is still developing a go-to move in the paint, but the sky is the limit for his development. 170: Conference Finals Predictions, and Popovich vs. Media, THD’s NBA Video Podcast, Ep. While his impressive wingspan is remarkable, his massive 9’3″ reach is actually the best of any player in history to be drafted by the NBA. A long-armed fellow can release his jumper without being bothered by defenders (Durant should’ve thanked his disproportionate limbs in his MVP speech), and can make it tough for an offensive player to get off a shot on the other end.
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