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How tall is Victor Wembanyama, actually? In this video we dig into the wildly inconsistent listings and the eye-test – from prospect measurements to shifting NBA listings (7’5″ → 7’4″ → 7’3″), Boban Marjanović and Brian Windhorst’s 7’7″ quip, and an explainer as to how the NBA actually measures height.
We compare photos, combine notes and media-day claims to sleuth out Wemby’s true height.
Written by Jared Weiss and Zach Harper, illustrated by Marco Bevilacqua.
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35 Comments
Wemby is much taller than they list him
7 ft 4 in (2.24 m), saved you 5 minutes and 35 seconds
Well I never realised this was such a big topic in basketball. Like a couple of inches can't really make that big of difference right??
I did not expect to suddenly hear Zealand talk to me when I clicked on this video lol
He's 9 ft tall for all it matters
It's entirely possible to be taller in the morning than the afternoon. Your skeleton stretches out a little at night when you lay down.
fm24?
Crazy how sports, even in football are being treated like how women treat men on tinder
This isn’t a football manager video
Tim Duncan with dreads still blows my mind
All that explanation and still no official height given here,either.😂
Wemby is still growing which is scary while athletic he might be next Wilt one of world's best athletic sports player
Wemby is already in the HOF because he will win defensive player awards many times and way better then Rudy Gobert
7'5"2/5"
Lol why do we even care?
7"7
Only in America. I identify myself as 6’9😅
Only in America can they make this so complicated, and still constantly fk it up…
i have a solution. use metric system.
He is 7'7 with shoes
Just measure him from pictures, it can't be that hard? Get one right angle, use some object as comparison and calculate
BS LOL! I doubt they do all that just to measure them bro
Victor Wenloanyama.
I'm 7' minus 16"
call the asian guy
Maybe he is between 7'4'' and 7'5'', I think they really need to use the metric system and then convert it to the imperial system, I'll give you an example, I'm 1.74 cm tall so I'm between 5'8'' and 5'9'' so one person can say I'm 5'8'' and the next day another person can say I'm 5'9'', but in reality I'm 5'8.5''. Also your skeleton stretches out a little at night, less than 1 cm so if you meassured his height in the afternoon and you do it again the next day but in the morning he's going to be almost 1 cm taller than the day before. In the picture he can be using tall shoes, there's this video of 6ft chinesse guys who have to take of their shoes to enter an atraction and when they do it they went from 5'10'' to 5'7'', the taller of the group almost fell into the ground also he was in reality the shortest of the group.
What I like about this video is how it tells me nothing and does not try to do any interesting analysis to figure out how tall he is
lenses are curved so the stretch the edges of the image
I've always thought the NBA exaggerates heights, and Wemby is just being honest
Stephon Castle's height isn't too far off of Tim Duncan and David Robinson
The question is How's Stephon 6'6" ?
7’5”
I think Bobans case is scientific. You don't look up to someone who is the same height as you. Lmao
Zealand?!!!
Is that you?!
7 8 at least.
5:00 mark iykyk