Dallas Mavericks point guard J.J. Barea standing between two very tall people (from: Picassa user
photoasisphoto).
Congrats to the Dallas Mavericks,
who beat the Miami Heat tonight in game six to win the NBA championship.
Okay, with that out of the way, just how tall is the busy-footed Maverick point guard J.J. Barea? He's
listed as 6-foot on NBA.com, but no one, not even the sports casters, believes that he can possibly be that tall. He looks like a super-fast Hobbit out there. But could that just be relative scaling, with him standing next to a bunch of extremely tall people? People on Yahoo! Answers
think so---I know because I've been Google searching "J.J. Barea Height" for the past 15 minutes.
So I decided to find a photo and settle the issue once and for all.
I started by downloading a stock photo of J.J. from NBA.com, which I then loaded into
OpenOffice Draw:
I then used the basketball as my metric. Wikipedia states that an NBA basketball is
29.5 inches in circumfe…
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Is it just me, or did it sound like they were eating sandwiches somewhere there in the middle to end?