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OT: Who had the highest Vertical of all time in the NBA?

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Even the Miami Heat’s Derrick Jones JR has been measured at 48. That’s a good starting point for excellent, it’s not “legendary”. That’s an undrafted NBA player. He has since started working with elite trainers and supposedly increased his vertical to 50+. If you don’t know who he is, you might want to look out for him.
 
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HurricaneinLA said:
Wilt holds 72 NBA records, 68 by himself. Among his records are several that are considered unbreakable, such as averaging 22.9 rebounds for a career or 50.4 points per game in a season, scoring 100 points or 55 rebounds in a single game, scoring 65 or more points 15 times, 50 or more points 118 times.
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55 rebounds.... against Bill Russell.
 
We the Boss said:
What’s amazing is the vertical jump average in the NBA is dog **** to the NFL skills guys.
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These guys are drooling over a 40" RUNNING vert. 🙄
Guys in the NFL are doing 42+ STANDING verts.
A 40" vert is ridiculously common in the football world.
 
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Coach Macho said:
These guys are drooling over a 40" RUNNING vert. 🙄
Guys in the NFL are doing 42+ STANDING verts.
A 40" vert is ridiculously common in the football world.
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They are also a lot shorter, which makes a huge difference. NBA players are some of the most talented athletes in the world.

Way more kids play Basketball around the world when compared to football. Even with the larger talent pool, they have a much smaller draft making it even harder to get drafted than the massive NFL draft, plus free agent situation.
 
Vince is the best in-game dunker off all time. And that 2000 ASG slam dunk performance has not been topped. Enjoy.



 
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Coach Macho said:
These guys are drooling over a 40" RUNNING vert. 🙄
Guys in the NFL are doing 42+ STANDING verts.
A 40" vert is ridiculously common in the football world.
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That's what I'm talking about. True VJ is standing still before the jump. Top end football players > basketball players overall. Best I've ever witnessed as a group are Olympic Weightlifters.
 
OriginalGatorHater said:
They are also a lot shorter, which makes a huge difference. NBA players are some of the most talented athletes in the world.

Way more kids play Basketball around the world when compared to football. Even with the larger talent pool, they have a much smaller draft making it even harder to get drafted than the massive NFL draft, plus free agent situation.
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NFL players are more explosive. The term athletic is meaningless without agreed definition. Baseball guys and golfers are athletic if we are talking hand eye and balance.
 
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We the Boss said:
NFL players are more explosive. The term athletic is meaningless without agreed definition. Baseball guys and golfers are athletic if we are talking hand eye and balance.
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What are you basing that on? You are saying NFL players of equal height are more explosive than NBA players? I would be interested to see those stats.

Plenty of NBA players could have been NFL players had they wanted to go that route. I can't think of a single NFL player that could play in the NBA.

You have Jimmy Graham who was a basketball player that could never dream of playing in the NBA and now he is a 5x pro bowler. Antonio Gates had a similar situation.

TO was a college basketball player that knew he had no shot of making the NBA so he stuck with football.

There are literally 0 NBA players that decided to join the NBA because they weren't talented enough to play in the NFL.

You see it every year too with HS kids. The kids who just aren't talented enough to play D1 basketball so they decide to stick with football and end up going to P5 schools.

Very few people would choose to be NFL players over NBA players. NBA players make way more money and have much longer careers. Which is why they are able to get more talented players.
 
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