After dropping a combined 56 points to carry the Sixers to their third win of the season, the topic was broached to Tyrese Maxey and Jared McCain— can you guys make it work as an undersized backcourt in today’s NBA?
Maxey, who has dealt with this sort of skepticism his entire NBA career, immediately pushed back on the concept.
“Who said we was small?” He asked the reporter, “That’s crazy, I don’t feel small.”
When the reporter followed up by asking just how tall he was, Maxey curtly responded that, “I’m taller than you.”
While neither of them are fazed by it, at 6-foot-3 and 6-foot-2 respectively, Maxey and McCain are below the average height of an NBA guard.