Although being tall is obviously quite important for NBA players, some guys have enjoyed long, successful careers despite being short (at least by professional basketball player standards). Today, we ...

As Lord Varys told Tyrion Lannister in “Game of Thrones,” “A very small man can cast a very large shadow.” The adage applied in Westeros, and it has also wrung true in the NBA. Going up against some ...

The NBA's smallest player was no benchwarmer, even at 5-foot-3.

Standing at just five feet, eight inches tall, Yuki Kawamura is perhaps an unlikely basketball star. “It’s not like I can do any dunk shots,” says the NBA’s current shortest player, who is almost a ...

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