Vraneš was officially listed as 7'5' while playing in the NBA, and has since grown taller (7'6' or 2.30 m), according to most sources.īorn to American parents in the former West Germany. Played 3 minutes, with one shot attempt from the field (missed) and one personal foul. Played in one game, on Januagainst the Minnesota Timberwolves. Played alongside the shortest player in NBA history, Muggsy Bogues, during the 1987–88 season for the Washington Bullets their difference in height was 28 inches (71 cm). Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Yasutaka Okayama, a 7-foot-8-inch (2.34 m) Japanese basketball player picked 171st overall in the seventh round of the 1981 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors, is the tallest player to ever be drafted for the NBA. In addition to Yao, Ralph Sampson and Arvydas Sabonis were the only other players 7'3' or taller selected to the Hall of Fame. The tallest player inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is 7-foot-6-inch (2.29 m) Yao Ming.

Three are active as of the 2019–20 season Kristaps Porziņģis and Boban Marjanović, both of the Dallas Mavericks, and Tacko Fall of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Through 2019, twenty-six players have been listed at 7 feet 3 inches (2.21 m) or taller. 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. This is a list of the tallest players in National Basketball Association history.

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