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List of tallest players in NBA history
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This is a list of the tallest players in National Basketball Association history. It is currently topped by the 7 ft Romanian Gheorghe Mureșan, taken by the Washington Bullets as the number 30 overall pick in the 1993 NBA draft.
As of the 2025–26 NBA season, thirty players have been listed at 7 ft or taller. Three are active as of the season: Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs, Zach Edey of the Memphis Grizzlies, and Rocco Zikarsky of the Minnesota Timberwolves. The tallest player inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is 7 ft Yao Ming. Yao, Ralph Sampson and Arvydas Sabonis are the only players 7 ft or taller elected to the Hall of Fame.
Yasutaka Okayama, a 7 ft Japanese basketball player picked 171st overall in the seventh round of the 1981 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors, is the tallest player ever to be drafted to the NBA. However, he never played in the NBA.
List
:Statistics accurate as of the 2024–25 NBA season.
| RPG | Rebounds per game | Blk | Blocks | BPG | Blocks per game |
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| Height | Weight | Player | Nationality | Teams | GP | Pts | PPG | FG% | FT% | Reb | RPG | Blk | BPG | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 ft | 303 lb | RO | |||||||||||||
| USA | Washington Bullets (–) | ||||||||||||||
| New Jersey Nets (–) | 307 | 3,020 | 9.8 | .573 | .644 | 1,957 | 6.4 | 455 | 1.5 | Won 1996 NBA Most Improved Player Award. | |||||
| 7 ft | 200 lb | SUD | Washington Bullets (–, ) | ||||||||||||
| Golden State Warriors (–, ) | |||||||||||||||
| Philadelphia 76ers (–, ) | |||||||||||||||
| Miami Heat () | 625 | 1,599 | 2.6 | .407 | .561 | 2,647 | 4.2 | 2,086 | 3.3 | Played alongside the shortest player in NBA history, Muggsy Bogues, during the season for the Washington Bullets; their difference in height was 28 inches (71 cm). | |||||
| 7 ft | 275 lb | United States | |||||||||||||
| Germany | Philadelphia 76ers (–) | ||||||||||||||
| New Jersey Nets (–) | |||||||||||||||
| Dallas Mavericks (–) | 832 | 6,752 | 8.1 | .457 | .716 | 5,268 | 6.3 | 2,119 | 2.5 | Born to American parents in the former West Germany. | |||||
| 7 ft | 311 lb | SEN | Boston Celtics (–) | ||||||||||||
| Cleveland Cavaliers () | 37 | 82 | 2.2 | .673 | .320 | 90 | 2.4 | 30 | 0.8 | ||||||
| 7 ft | 310 lb | {{sortname | Yao Ming}}* | CHN | Houston Rockets (–) | 481 | 9,196 | 19.1 | .525 | .832 | 4,467 | 9.3 | 912 | 1.9 | |
| 7 ft | 360 lb | Canada | Sacramento Kings () | 3 | 2 | 0.7 | .500 | — | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.3 | First NBA player of Indian descent. Played 16 seconds in his debut on April 7, 2015. | ||
| 7 ft | 217 lb | United States | Houston Rockets (–, –) | ||||||||||||
| Los Angeles Lakers (–) | |||||||||||||||
| Detroit Pistons (–) | |||||||||||||||
| Chicago Bulls () | |||||||||||||||
| San Antonio Spurs () | 155 | 251 | 1.6 | .438 | .589 | 239 | 1.5 | 111 | 0.7 | Tallest player to win an NBA Championship. | |||||
| 7 ft | 260 lb | RUS | Dallas Mavericks (–) | 6 | 4 | 0.7 | .000 | .500 | 9 | 1.5 | 1 | 0.1 | |||
| 7 ft | 275 lb | MNE | Portland Trail Blazers () | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | .000 | — | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | Played in one game, on against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Played 3 minutes, with one shot attempt from the field (missed) and one personal foul. 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. | ||
| 7 ft | 236 lb | ^ | FRA | San Antonio Spurs (–present) | 117 | 2,638 | 22.5 | .469 | .809 | 1,261 | 10.8 | 430 | 3.7 | Drafted first overall in the 2023 NBA draft. Currently the tallest active player in the NBA and a one-time All-Star. | |
| 7 ft | 275 lb | United States | Utah Jazz (–) | 875 | 5,216 | 6.0 | .458 | .649 | 6,939 | 10.8 | 3,064 | 3.5 | He set records for most blocked shots per game in a single season (5.56 bpg in ) and for an entire career (3.50 bpg)—both marks still stand today. One-time NBA All-Star. | ||
| 7 ft | 325 lb | USA | |||||||||||||
| BGR | Atlanta Hawks () | ||||||||||||||
| Denver Nuggets () | 74 | 255 | 3.4 | .472 | .554 | 143 | 1.9 | 26 | 0.4 | ||||||
| 7 ft | 290 lb | SER | San Antonio Spurs () | ||||||||||||
| Detroit Pistons (–) | |||||||||||||||
| Los Angeles Clippers (–) | |||||||||||||||
| Philadelphia 76ers () | |||||||||||||||
| Dallas Mavericks (–) | |||||||||||||||
| Houston Rockets (–) | 331 | 1,835 | 5.5 | .578 | .762 | 1,189 | 3.6 | 96 | 0.3 | ||||||
| 7 ft | 228 lb | * | United States | Houston Rockets (–) | |||||||||||
| Golden State Warriors (–) | |||||||||||||||
| Sacramento Kings (–) | |||||||||||||||
| Washington Bullets () | 456 | 7,039 | 15.4 | .486 | .661 | 4,011 | 8.8 | 752 | 1.6 | Three-time College national player of the year, #1 pick in the 1983 NBA draft, four-time All-Star, member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. | |||||
| 7 ft | 265 lb | NED | Indiana Pacers (–) | 867 | 12,871 | 14.8 | .507 | .773 | 5,277 | 6.1 | 1,111 | 1.3 | One-time NBA All-Star. | ||
| 7 ft | 220 lb | SSD | Denver Nuggets (–) | ||||||||||||
| Orlando Magic (–) | |||||||||||||||
| Phoenix Suns (–) | 202 | 1,243 | 6.2 | .545 | .749 | 709 | 3.5 | 153 | 0.8 | Son of joint tallest player in NBA history, Manute Bol | |||||
| 7 ft | 230 lb | United States | Milwaukee Bucks (–) | ||||||||||||
| Minnesota Timberwolves (–) | |||||||||||||||
| Atlanta Hawks (–) | |||||||||||||||
| Sacramento Kings () | 681 | 4,599 | 6.8 | .467 | .628 | 2,986 | 4.4 | 750 | 1.1 | ||||||
| 7 ft | 212 lb | United States | Los Angeles Clippers (–) | 130 | 502 | 3.9 | .471 | .606 | 372 | 2.9 | 163 | 1.3 | During his collegiate career, Closs averaged 5.9 blocks per game, which is the NCAA Division I record. | ||
| 7 ft | 305 lb | ^ | CAN | Memphis Grizzlies (–present) | 66 | 610 | 9.2 | .580 | .709 | 548 | 8.3 | 85 | 1.3 | ||
| 7 ft | 305 lb | {{sortname | Ha Seung-jin}} | KOR | Portland Trail Blazers (–) | 46 | 70 | 1.5 | .519 | .500 | 67 | 1.5 | 13 | 0.3 | |
| 7 ft | 235 lb | United States | Syracuse Nationals (–) | 143 | 786 | 5.5 | .347 | .591 | 949 | 6.6 | — | — | |||
| 7 ft | 260 lb | LTU | Cleveland Cavaliers (–) | ||||||||||||
| Miami Heat (–) | 771 | 10,616 | 13.8 | .475 | .780 | 5,904 | 7.7 | 1,269 | 1.6 | Two-time NBA All-Star. | |||||
| 7 ft | 256 lb | GER | Utah Jazz () | 12 | 24 | 2.0 | .440 | 1.000 | 15 | 1.3 | 2 | 0.2 | |||
| 7 ft | 250 lb | BIH | |||||||||||||
| MNE | Toronto Raptors () | ||||||||||||||
| Utah Jazz () | 15 | 26 | 1.7 | .308 | .625 | 36 | 2.4 | 3 | 0.2 | ||||||
| 7 ft | 275 lb | PUR | Washington Wizards () | 6 | 11 | 1.8 | .500 | .500 | 4 | 0.7 | 1 | 0.2 | |||
| 7 ft | 292 lb | * | LTU | Portland Trail Blazers (–, ) | 470 | 5,629 | 12.0 | .500 | .786 | 3,436 | 7.3 | 494 | 1.1 | Sabonis was originally drafted into the NBA in 1986 (Rd. 1, #24 overall), but was not allowed to play in the NBA for most of his career due to restrictions set by the former Soviet Union. | |
| 7 ft | 265 lb | CPV | Atlanta Hawks (–) | ||||||||||||
| Cleveland Cavaliers () | 13 | 33 | 2.5 | .625 | .273 | 32 | 2.5 | 12 | 0.9 | Only Cape Verdean player to play in the NBA. | |||||
| 7 ft | 263 lb | TZA | Memphis Grizzlies (–) | ||||||||||||
| Houston Rockets (–) | |||||||||||||||
| Portland Trail Blazers () | |||||||||||||||
| Oklahoma City Thunder (–) | 224 | 483 | 2.2 | .567 | .578 | 595 | 2.7 | 184 | 0.8 | Only Tanzanian player to play in the NBA. | |||||
| 7 ft | 227 lb | ^ | AUS | Minnesota Timberwolves (–present) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 7 ft | 273 lb | Netherlands | Houston Rockets (–) | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | Zwikker was on the Rockets roster for the entire 1997–98 season, but spent the year on the injured list and did not play in a game before the 1998 NBA lockout. |
Notes
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