5 inches shorter, so I guess as tall as a very tall normal person… Oh, I checked he‘s only 6 feet tall so is 5 inches enough? I‘m 2m tall and I always expected NBA players to almost dwarf me, at least like 5-10cm I‘d have expected…

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The story behind that speech tells a way different story than the meme it became. If you (and others) don’t know, a close friend of his had been murdered so he skipped practice. And the major irony of it all is that he was one of the few massive stars in the NBA that went 100% every game, every play. Dude was 50lbs and 5 inches shorter than the average player and he flung his body around with wreckless abandon, played more minutes than most and very rarely missed games due to injury. But we’re talkin bout practice man. Practice.

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