Spurs reveal Victor Wembanyama’s official height: 7 feet, 3.5 inches

Victor Wembanyama has grown a little. Or not, depending onperspective.

The official height for theNo. 1 pick in this year’sdraft, the San Antonio Spurs said Wednesday, is 7 feet,3-1/2 inches — and that was measured without shoes, per NBAguidelines.

That’s a half-inch taller than Wembanyama said he was back inOctober, when he was in Las Vegas for apair of exhibition games.(His official height then was 2.21 meters, he said, and he’s nownearly 2.23 meters.) Which makes sense, given that he was 18 then,has turned 19 since and it’s reasonable to think he might stillhave a bit of growing left.

He has been listed by various sites as anywhere between 7-foot-2and 7-foot-5, in part because of how he towers over other 7-footerswhen photographed standing with them. The NBA listed him at7-foot-4 in the league’s guide for last week’s draft, but that wasnot based off any official measurement.

The 7-3.5 figure puts Wembanyama on pace to be the NBA’ssecond-tallest player this coming season. Officially, the NBAlisted Boban Marjanovic at 7-foot-4 this past season, making himthe league’s tallest player. Kristaps Porzingis, who played forWashington and has since been traded to Boston, was listed at7-foot-3.

Almost every player in the draft had their height measured bythe NBA in recent weeks, most of them at the draft combine that washeld in Chicago back in May. Wembanyama was not at the combine; histeam in France still had its season going on at that time, so hecouldn’t get to Chicago to be measured.

But whenhe arrived in SanAntoniothis past weekend, the Spurs got theofficial number.

Wembanyama would have been the tallest player at the combine aswell, albeit barely. Purdue’s Zach Edey, the AP college basketballplayer of the year who decided to return to school, measured in at7 feet, 3-1/4 inches, the NBA said.

The NBA changed its policy before the 2019-20 season, requiringplayers to be measured without shoes for their official height.That led to a number of players “shrinking” an inch, though ahandful of players — Kevin Durant, for example, who went from beinglisted at 6-foot-9 to officially measuring 6-foot-10 — actually gotan inch taller on paper when their measurement was updated.

WEMBY'S SUMMER SCHEDULE

Wembanyama’s NBA summer debut is now expected to come in LasVegas.

The Spurs announced Wednesday that Wembanyama will be with theteam at the NBA Summer League that starts July 7.

Wembanyama will not accompany the Spurs when they travel laterthis week to Sacramento for the California Classic — the first oftwo summer league appearances for the club next month. The Spurs’summer club will play games in Sacramento on July 3 and July 5before moving on to Las Vegas for the league’s primary summerleague.

Wembanyama will meet the team in Las Vegas, the Spurs said. He’sexpected to begin practicing with the Spurs summer squad later thisweek in San Antonio.

The Spurs will open their Las Vegas slate of summer games onJuly 7 — with a matchup that night against Charlotte in a game thatcould see Wembanyama facing off with No. 2 draft pick BrandonMiller of the Hornets.

Wembanyama is also scheduled to make an appearance in Las Vegason July 8 at theinaugural NBA Conevent.