Why Did Nba Player Heights Change. See if you can guess which of these 4th graders in this 1945 photo is wilt chamberlain, who would grow up to be 7 feet tall and one of the greatest players of all time: This year, heights will be recorded definitively by measuring players with their shoes off, stein reported.
Michael jordan started a trend with wearing longer basketball shorts and many players in the nba did the same. If we take a look at the average height of nba players during the history of the league we can see that basketball players in 1952 were almost 3 inches smaller than today! I remember when i had the dream of becoming a nba basketball player.