GHEORGHE MUREȘAN – 7’7″

Romanian Gheorghe Mureșan, who is 7 feet and 5 inches tall, is the tallest professional basketball player in history. Even if he was not the most skilled inside the basketball court, his arms would stretch and be able to easily grab the ring, which gave him a huge advantage as a basketball player.

Interestingly enough, Mureșan’s parents were of normal stature, but a pituitary gland disorder led him to grow as tall as he is. To his credit, he was able to use his disorder as a stepping stone into a lucrative career in basketball. In retrospect, even he might consider this to have been a stroke of luck, given it was what enabled him to join the NBA, basketball’s premier professional league.