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See our ethics statement. The golden age of extremely tall pro basketball players seems to be over. Like, extremely tall even among the NBA's extremely tall population. In the '90s, several of the tallest people on the planet played in the NBA, and in some cases Manute Bol, Gheorghe Muresan, Shawn Bradley rather successfully, but since Yao Ming's retirement, that's no longer true.
On the court, Sun had a surprisingly nice shooting touch. Just look at this fadeaway! Sun played in Mexico and Japan, eventually returning to his homeland for a stint with the Beijing Ducks of the Chinese Basketball Association in The intersection of that coverage Venn diagram comes down to a single person: Fingleton, a 7-foot-7 Brit who turned from basketball to acting.
Fingleton moved from his hometown of Durham, England, to Worcester, Massachusetts, in to pursue his apparent basketball potential. Facing the best players in the nation, he blocked three shots in 10 minutes. But he was forced to miss his freshman season after undergoing back surgery and wound up playing only one career game for the Tar Heels, missing two shots against Davidson.
In , he averaged 2. He would find more success in acting. He was cast as the giant in Jack in the Beanstalk. Fingleton soon moved onto more notable roles, battling Keanu Reeves in 47 Ronin and playing the mythically gigantic Fisher King in an episode of Doctor Who. He died of heart failure last year at age Heart failure is tragically common among the extremely tall.
While Sun was an attraction for independent minor leagues looking to boost ticket sales, Sturgess was a flop in the NBA G League, an organization in which player development is more highly valued than gate revenue. But luckily, Sturgess found a place where his potential as an attraction would pay off: From to , he toured with the Harlem Globetrotters. Originally from England, Sturgess sprouted from 6-foot-2 to 7-foot-2 during a growth spurt when he was 16 and 17, ultimately topping out at 7-foot He took up basketball late, thus never becoming a prized prospect.
His agent cut together a mix of him grainily slamming home dunks in a near-empty arena at Mountain State. The Globetrotters then had Guinness certify him as the tallest pro basketball player in the world —snubbing Sun, who was taller than Sturgess, perhaps as revenge for Sun snubbing the Globetrotters.
So off Sturgess went around the world, posing on top of skyscrapers , riding camels , spinning balls on his finger, and carrying shorter players on his back to dunks. Sturgess eventually left the Globetrotters for a shot at the NBA. He was inflexible, barely capable of lifting his arms straight up over his head. He played in 13 G League games, scoring 11 total points and failing to record a single block.
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