FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 – Height of the players and other interesting facts (infographic)

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The infographic above illustrates the height of the players of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 (China, 31 August – 15 September 2019).

Serbian Boban Marjanovic is the tallest player of the tournament (2.22m – 7’3”). Serbia is the tallest team with an average height of 2.06m per player). Greece is the second tallest team (2.04m).

In the previous, 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, Greece had the tallest team and Serbia the second tallest.

On the other end of the spectrum, Philippines team for the second consecutive World Cup have the shortest (on average) players (1.93m).

4 players have a height of 1.78m and thus are the shortest:
• Yago Mateus (Brazil)
• Andrew Albicy (France)
• Ryusei Shinoyama (Japan) and
• Mark Barroca (Philippines)

All of them are Point Guards (1) which is the position with the shortest players: 1.88m on average.

Centers are the tallest: 2.09m on average.

The table below shows average heights of all the teams and the various positions of the players.

Height of:	(cm)	(ft)
Boban MARJANOVIC, Serbia – Center	222	7’3”
Centers – Average	209.3	6’10”
Serbia	205.7	6’9”
Power Forwards – Average	204.6	6’9”
Greece	203.5	6’8”
Senegal	203.0	6’8”
All Forwards (average)	202.3	6’8”
France	201.5	6’7”
Nigeria	200.8	6’7”
USA	200.6	6’7”
Spain	200.6	6’7”
Germany	200.5	6’7”
Montenegro	200.3	6’7”
Czech Republic	200.2	6’7”
Small Forwards	200.0	6’7”
Iran	199.9	6’7”
Tunisia	199.9	6’7”
Italy	199.8	6’7”
Lithuania	199.8	6’7”
Turkey	199.7	6’7”
Australia	199.6	6’7”
China	199.5	6’7”
All Players (average)	198.9	6’6”
Japan	198.8	6’6”
Poland	198.8	6’6”
Russia	198.8	6’6”
Cote d’Ivoire	198.5	6’6”
New Zealand	198.3	6’6”
Jordan	197.3	6’6”
Argentina	197.3	6’6”
Canada	197.2	6’6”
Brazil	196.8	6’5”
Angola	196.3	6’5”
Venezuela	195.8	6’5”
Puerto Rico	195.0	6’5”
Korea	194.8	6’5”
Shooting Guards	194.0	6’4”
Dominican Republic	193.5	6’4”
Philippines	192.8	6’4”
All Guards (average)	190.6	6’3”
Point Guards	188.4	6’2”
Shortest Player (4 players)	178.0	5’10”

Another way to examine the height of the players and their teams is by the box-and-whisker plot:

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• The shortest player of Serbia is 1.95m tall
• There are no players of Greece and Italy shorter than 1.90m
• There is no player of Venezuela taller than 2.05m
• Italy has players with the narrowest height range; all of them are between 1.90m and 2.08m; half of them are between 1.98 and 2.03m

Age of the players

The youngest player of the tournament is Aleksander Roman BALCEROWSKI of the Polish team. Born on 19 November 2000, he is 18 years, 9 months and 12 days old on the day (31 August 2019) the World Cup begins.

He is followed by Andrew NEMBHARD of Canada (b. 16 Jan 1999 – 19 years, 7 months and 15 days old) and Abraham SIE of Cote d’Ivoire who has his 20th birthday on the first day of the tournament.

The youngest team is China: 26 years, 1 month and 2 days (average player). Second youngest is USA: 26 years, 2 months and 29 days.

On the opposite side the oldest team is Tunisia: 32 years, 1 month and 5 days  old is their average player.

The oldest player of the tournament is Angola’s Eduardo MINGAS: born on 29 January 1979, he is 40 years, 7 months and 2 days old at the beginning of the Cup.

He is followed by Brazil’s Alex GARCIA (b. 4 Apr 1980 – 39 years, 5 months and 27 days) and Argentina’s Luis SCOLA (b. 30 Apr 1980 – 38 years, 4 months and 1 day old).

NBAers

There are 53 players in the FIBA World Cup 2019 who were playing in NBA at the end of the previous season (2018-2019).

All 12 players of the USA team are NBAers. Australia has 6 NBAers, France 5, Nigeria, Serbia and Spain have 4 each, Germany and Turkey have 3 each, Brazil, Italy, Lithuania, Japan and Canada have 2 each, Montenegro has 1 and Greece has NBA’s MVP Giannis ANTETOKOUNMPO.

Sources:
FIBA FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 | Teams

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