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Exaggerating height is hardly a new phenomenon in the NBA. Of all the current and former NBA players, I've met or seen in person, the only one who was as big as advertised was Shaq. That is a mammoth human. Dr. J and Brian Grant are both reasonably tall guys but nowhere near as tall as their...

http://www.tothemean.com/2014/08/26/height-distributions-in-nba.html Here you go. Players on average, are much larger in the modern era of basketball (height and weight) than they were in the 50's 60's and 70's.

LMAO. In the 80's the big complaint was that teams played no defense, so in the 90's they started to let teams get away with more physical play ie: hand checking, grabbing, holding, basically Pat Riley era Knicks basketball. Towards the turn of the century, NBA fans got tired of 88-79 snoozers...