Jayson Tatum's real height is a years-long dispute between 6-8, 6-9 and 6-10
This has been an ongoing oddity.
Jayson Tatum's real height is a years-long dispute between 6-8, 6-9 and 6-10 originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . How does no one have a firm grip on how tall Jayson Tatum is?
He's one of the best basketball players in the world, a champion with the Boston Celtics and an Olympic gold medalist with Team USA. But it feels that there isn't a single player in the NBA with more height uncertainty than Tatum. It's not like he's absurdly tall or absurdly short, either.
He's a wing, a small forward or a power forward in the classic terminology. It should be simple. MORE: What Steve Kerr leaving would mean to Steph Curry, Warriors How tall is Jayson Tatum?
Tatum is listed by ESPN at 6-foot-8. That's how tall he was listed in his lone season at Duke, and it's never changed on those official sources. But as far back as 2020 , then-Celtics coach Brad Stevens was calling Tatum 6-10.