Draymond Green revealed his true height without shoes after heavy controversy with some debating he was closer to 6-foot-5 than the 6-foot-7 he's been listed at since coming into the league in 2012.
The Golden State Warriors stalwart measured at 78 inches or a full 6-foot-6 without shoes — a good happy medium between what he was previously listed at and what the pundits thought about his height.
Haha. Draymond Green with the visual proof that he’s 6-foot-6 without shoes on pic.twitter.com/4KzaRhy5iB
— Drew Shiller (@DrewShiller) October 9, 2019
Among those pundits was head coach Steve Kerr, who has been close enough to Green for the better part of six years to know there's no way he towered to 6-foot-7.
“I sort laughed about it,” Steve Kerr said after practice Wednesday afternoon, according to Logan Murdock of NBC Sports Bay Area. “I talked to Draymond every day for five years. They keep introducing him as 6-7 and he looks like he's two inches taller than me and I'm 6-2 1/2 so this has been going on forever.”
The league's new provision calling for an accurate height for every NBA player is a reflection of recent partnerships between betting sites and casinos and the league — hoping for true transparency now that players have also become a vehicle for gambling.
Besides a short “I told you so,” Kerr didn't make much of the one-inch loss for his part-time, crunch-time NBA center, noting that regardless of how tall he is, he's been able to deliver a lot for this group:
“Everyone wants to be taller so it doesn't matter,” Kerr said of the new listings. “If the guy can play he can play. I don't care how tall Draymond is, he's pretty damn good.”
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