san antonio – Victor Wimbanyama Grown a little. Or not, depending on the perspective.
The official height for the No. 1 pick in this year’s draft, the San Antonio Spurs said Wednesday, is 7 feet 3-1/2 inches — and that was measured without shoes, according to NBA guidelines.
That’s half an inch longer than Wembanyama said he was back in October, when he was in Las Vegas for a pair of exhibition games. (His official height at the time was 2.21m, he said, and now he’s closer to 2.23m.) Which makes sense, considering he was 18 at the time, and he’s been 19 since then and it’s reasonable to think he might still have a little bit of growth left.
He has been listed by various sites as anywhere between 7-foot-2 and 7-foot-5, in part because of how he rises over other 7-foot-two when photographed standing with them. The NBA recorded him at 7-foot-4 in the league’s guide for last week’s draft, but that wasn’t based on any official measurement.
The 7-3.5 number puts Wimpanyama on his way to being the second tallest player in the NBA this coming season. Officially, the NBA listed Boban Marjanovic at 7-foot-4 last season, making him the tallest player in the league. Kristaps Porzingis, who played for Washington and has since been traded to Boston, is clocked at 7-foot-3.
The height of nearly every player in the draft has been measured by the NBA in recent weeks, and most of them were in the draft pool that took place in Chicago in May. Wembanyama was not in the crowd; His team in France was still in season at the time, so he couldn’t make it to Chicago to be measured.
But when he arrived in San Antonio last weekend, the Spurs got the official number.
Wimpanyama would have been the tallest player in the group too, albeit just barely. Purdue University basketball player Zach Eddy, who decided to go back to school, measured 7 feet 3-1/4 inches, the NBA said.
The NBA changed its policy prior to the 2019-20 season, requiring players without shoes to be measured to their official height. This resulted in a number of players “shrinking” by an inch, although a handful of players—Kevin Durant, for example, who went from being listed at 6-foot-9 to 9-foot-10—actually got taller inches on paper when their measurement was updated.
WEMBY SUMMER SCHEDULE
Wembanyama’s summer debut in the NBA is now expected to come in Las Vegas.
The Spurs announced on Wednesday that Wimpanyama will be with the team for the FIBA Summer League, which begins July 7.
Wimpanyama will not be accompanying Spurs when they travel later this week to Sacramento for the California Classic – the first of two matches in the club’s summer league campaign next month. The Spurs summer club will play games in Sacramento on July 3 and 5 before moving to Las Vegas to participate in the league’s premier summer league.
Spurs said Wimpanyama would meet the team in Las Vegas. He is expected to start training with the Spurs summer squad later this week in San Antonio.
The Spurs will open their summer roster in Las Vegas on July 7 – with a game that night against Charlotte in a game that could see Wimpanyama take on Brandon Miller of the #2-ranked Hornets.
Wembanyama is also scheduled to appear in Las Vegas on July 8 at the inaugural NBA Con event.
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