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Robinson went on to win, making him and Webb the only two people in NBA history under six feet tall to win a slam dunk contest. [citation needed] Webb was a judge for the 2010 Dunk contest in Dallas, held at the American Airlines Center. The 2010 dunk contest marked the first time the event had been held in Dallas since Webb's victory in 1986. [11]
The shortest player ever in the old American Basketball Association (1967–76) was Penny Ann Early, a 5-foot-3-inch (160 cm) jockey who took part in one play in one game for the Kentucky Colonels as a publicity stunt in 1969. (The shortest signed ABA players were Jerry Dover and Monte Towe, both 5 feet 7 inches or 170 centimetres.)
The shortest player ever to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), the 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) Bogues played point guard for four teams during his 14-season career in the NBA. Although best known for his ten seasons with the Charlotte Hornets , he also played for the Washington Bullets , Golden State Warriors , and Toronto Raptors .
The question is though: who is the shortest NBA player ever? Bogues has held the title ever since. In a hilarious coincidence, the point guard famously played along side the tallest player in NBA ...
At 54.6 cm (21.5 in), Nepalese-born Chandra Bahadur Dangi was, at the time of his death in 2015, the world's shortest person ever verified. This list includes the shortest ever verified people in their lifetime or profession. The entries below are broken down into different categories which range from sex, to age group and occupations.
Mac McClung will leave it up to others to decide where he ranks among the best dunkers ever. When it comes to the dunk contest, there is no doubt. The G League star and dunk maven put on a ...
Listed at 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m), he was the shortest Division I player in the country and became the shortest scholarship Division I men's player in history (excluding unverified early-year players). [9] Rogers mostly played on Florida Gulf Coast's scout team and averaged 6.4 minutes in 20 games.
LeBron James continues to amaze at 40 years old. Debate remains on exactly where James lands on the list of basketball's all-time greats. But there's zero debate about his sustained excellence.