When the Portland Trail Blazers lost the other night by 42 to the Utah Jazz - one of the worst teams in the league - there was very little to feel good about besides the alley oop Sheadon Sharpe threw down halfway through the second quarter:
His vertical reached 45.1 inches on the play, the highest-recorded vertical since the NBA began tracking last year. But just how high is that in the grand scheme of things? We hit the Encyclopædia Britannica to find out:
Elephant: 0’0” - While elephants are good at a great many things - including being enormous - one thing they cannot do is jump.