Tallest basketball player in history?

[RusskyHoya]

Oh my God

www.dcist.com/archives/2007/01/30/move_over_mures.php

Not since 7' 7" Gheorghe Muresan guarded the paint for the Bullets from 1993 to 1997 has an enormous dude played basketball regularly for a D.C. area team - sorry Roy Hibbert, 7' 2" doesn't cut it. For those fans looking for another behemoth to cheer on, the Maryland Nighthawks of the American Basketball Association have announced that they've signed 7' 8 3/4" Sun Ming Ming, supposedly the tallest person to ever play professional basketball.

The team, which plays in Rockville, is holding a press conference tomorrow introducing Sun. If you'd like to see him duck his head when he walks through doors, head up to Mei Wah restaurant in Chevy Chase at 11 a.m. You might also get to see fellow Nighthawk Randy "White Chocolate" Gill, who's been on various streetball TV shows.

[hoyarooter]

Any relation to Yao?

[hifigator]

Muresan was one ugly dude. Was he taller than Manute Bol?

[Coast2CoastHoya]

Muresan also had one of the classic commercials in TV history: Gheorghe Muresan Cologne! "You want to smell like me?" "Is that ... cabbage, Gheorghe?" "Yah, chicks dig it!"