With a basketball hoop towering 10 feet high, it generally makes sense to have tall players on a team. Of course, not all professional NBA basketball players are tall. Those that are, however, have significant advantages to a team. But who is the tallest of the tall? Here are 25 tallest NBA players to ever play the game.
Dikembe Mutombo (7'2")

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (7'2")

Swede Halbrook (7'3")

Aleksandar Radojević (7'3")

Kristaps Porziņģis (7'3")

Walter Tavares (7'3")

Tibor Pleiß (7'3")

Ha Seung-Jin (7'3")

Hasheem Thabeet (7'3")

Randy Breuer (7'3")

Drafted in 1983 and briefly a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Randy Breuer stood at 7’3″ tall.
Keith Closs (7'3")

Arvydas Sabonis (7'3")

Zydrunas Ilgauskas (7'3")

Peter John Ramos (7'3")

Rik Smits (7'4")

Ralph Sampson (7'4")

Priest Lauderdale (7'4")

Mark Eaton (7'4")

Slavko Vranes (7'5")

Pavel Podkolzin (7'5")

Chuck Nevitt (7'5")

Yao Ming (7'6")

Shawn Bradley (7'6")

Manute Bol (7'7")

Gheorghe Muresan (7'7")

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