Basketball 7 Footers
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Basketball 7 footers. 14 2020 at 9 53 am edt. All time uk has had only nine such players and kentucky has now lost out on three unusually tall centers under unusual circumstances. The tallest documented high school player on those winter roster is 7 foot 6 tacko taco fall of tavares fla.
Through 2019 twenty six players have been listed at 7 feet 3 inches 2 21 m or taller. This is a list of the tallest players in national basketball association history. He has committed to play college basketball at central florida next fall.
The following list ranks the seven best 7 foot players in the country. Listed by life magazine as one of two 7 footers in the nation in 1955 he was a first team all american by picture week went on to become nba s all time leading scorer before being surpassed by kareem abdul jabbar lew alcindor. A handful of such players will arrive from overseas for 2016 17 but the supply will fall well short of.
The 7 foot 2 inch 330 pound center signed a letter of intent to play for lou henson at the university of. Hamilton attended chicago s martin luther king high school graduating in 1993 he was a high school teammate of rashard griffith the 38th pick in the 1995 nba draft and the pair led their school to the 1993 illinois state basketball championship. 1955 7 foot 2 dominated philadelphia basketball averaging 37 4 points for his career with a high of 90 points.
There aren t any players of their caliber currently in college basketball but there are still some great 7 footers. There are zero seven footers in the rivals150 rankings for 2016 and only three 6 11 players. Basketball vols offer kchs 7 footer handje tamba joins teammate b j.
It is currently topped by the 7 foot 7 inch 2 31 m romanian gheorghe mureșan taken by the washington bullets as the number 30 overall pick in the 1993 nba draft. Basketball players over 7 foot featuring zach brown stephen zimmerman and tacko fall. Uk s basketball history with 7 footers is complicated.
