The time has come to see how the Utah Jazz measure up. It’s not the points that count this time, it’s the inches.
The NBA instilled a new rule this season that teams must verify players’ heights via their team physician. The rule, intended to improve the league’s transparency, ends a long-standing practice of inflating — or at times deflating — players’ heights that pervades every level of the game from pee-wee leagues to the top tier.
Per the NBA, heights must be verified by the end of the first week of training camp, which begins Tuesday for the Jazz.