Jumping high is not as good as growing tall, which seems to be a wise saying that has always been prevalent in the basketball world. Indeed, in the sport of basketball, height is your strength. However, in the NBA, there are also some seniors who, through their own efforts, have proved to the outside world: Bantam Tigers also have spring! Their experience tells us that no matter how short you are, as long as you have the heart and work hard enough, you can still survive in such a top basketball hall in the world.

For example, Tini Boggs, who is the shortest player in NBA history, is only 160 centimeters tall, and his teammate, Nut Bol, who is 231 centimeters tall, stands together to form a strong contrast, and which photo has been circulating on the Internet, the photographer who lined up this photo would not be surprised if he won the Pulitzer Prize. With such a people-friendly height, it is not a fluke that Boggs can survive in the NBA, Boggs's skills are top-notch, and the bounce height is 111.76cm, if it weren't for his small hands, slam dunk can be said to be a matter of hand.

Boggs, born with a low center of gravity, makes him like a fish in water on the field, no one can take the ball away from him, on the contrary, the players who are defended by him have a headache, his height is almost equal to the height of the opponent's dribble, that is, when you are marked by Boggs, be careful that the ball may dribble to his head! I don't need to say much about the chance that this ball will be stolen.

Boggs' career average of 10.8 points and 10.1 assists per game per game is a double ten, coupled with the number of steals at every turn, it is incredible to have a solid foothold in the NBA with such height.

Nate Robinson is known as the ultra-short dunker! is 175 cm tall, although he is 15 cm taller than the previous one, but in a league like the NBA, which is full of giants, Robinson still seems very small. Robinson's path to the NBA was not smooth, he wandered nine teams and even went to the CBA to seek development, but he is well-known for his incredible bounce and his three-time slam dunk title during NBA All-Star Week.

Boikins, who is only 165 cm tall, stands next to O'Neill, who is 216 cm, and is really a boy as his name suggests. Older Boggs focused on assists, but Boykins is a special presence, even if he is not tall, he still has a strong desire to attack the rim, and Boykins has a career-high season with 14.6 points. His change of pace, his slit-in attacks, these are Boikins' signature moves, and to make up for his lack of height, he shoots really accurately, you can't give him a little bit of a gap to aim at the basket, or he's going to shoot you. Boykins has always been an underrated player, and if someone is willing to appreciate his more playing time and take on more responsibility, maybe Boykins' career will be very different, and it can only be said that short players really have fewer opportunities, which is also helpless.

Webb, who is only 169 tall, is the object of emulation by all dwarf players, as long as there is a dwarf player challenging the slam dunk contest, wearing his jersey or asking him to help pass the ball is a basic tribute, because he is the ancestor of the dwarf slam dunk, and even the 206 cm Larry Bird can only look up after he takes off.

Webber not only has amazing slam dunk skills, but also performs quite well on the court, averaging 16 points and 7 assists per game in his career, and is a very competent starting handler for the team.

Isiah Thomas, a star from the Celtics, is 175cm tall and is also the shortest and most favored little giant in the current team. Thomas is a relatively well-rounded player, can break through, has good outside three-point ability, and works hard defensively, but his height suffers seriously! In the latest season, he averaged 29.1 points per game, ranking third in the league, and the team's record ranked first in the East.

Among all these short ones, there is one short one that looks so unusual! Because height is indeed a mandatory requirement for basketball, in the NBA, height is the most basic criterion for measuring a player. Between the 1.9 and 2.2 meter giants, there are few small people under 1.8 meters who pass through, but when there is, it must be a great "little giant". When it comes to the little giants under 1.8 meters in NBA history, there is one person who has to be mentioned - Nate Robinson.

Born in Washington state, Robinson showed exceptional physical talent from an early age. Started playing rugby with the big kids at a very young age. But when he grew up, he began to fall in love with basketball and had a dream of joining the varsity basketball team. But when he was in college, because he was only about 1.7 meters tall, no varsity team offered him a scholarship, and he still stayed on the University of Washington football varsity team, and even started the "Sun Bowl" game. However, children with basketball dreams will never give up the pursuit of basketball, Robinson will always go to basketball training after football training, in his junior year, Robinson's basketball dream finally came true, he entered the University of Washington team, and in 2005 helped the University of Washington win the Pacific Top 10 Conference championship, his basketball road officially opened!

Finally, the emperor lived up to his wishes, Nate Robinson relied on his speed and bounce advantage, with an official height of 1.75 meters, in 2005 in the first round of the 21st pick to enter the NBA, joined the Suns, and at that time, what attracted attention to him was not his height and ball skills, but his maximum bounce height of 1.10 meters, and 2.96 seconds of half-time sprint time, such a rookie with both speed and bounce is rare, and he is still a strong muscle man!

In his rookie season, Robinson, who was called "Little Potato" by fans, couldn't wait to participate in the slam dunk contest, and his dunk can be described as incredible, because no one can imagine that a 1.7-meter little fat man can show his teeth and claws on the basket. And Robinson's most classic dunk, is the 2009 slam dunk contest and Howard's final dunk, Robinson put on a green jersey, took a green basketball, so that the 2.11-meter Howard stood under the basket, the little potato accelerated and ran over Howard to dunk the ball, and finally won the championship, in the history of NBA dunk, this little potato who won the three-time dunk king will definitely go down in history forever!

Unfortunately, like most young rookies, even with excellent physical fitness, it is inevitable that they will be emotionally affected during the game. Robinson is such an emotional maniac. He once publicly declared his dissatisfaction and asked to leave the team when he was pressed to the bench by D'Antoni and did not play, but was fined by the league and clashed with opponents in the game many times. Coupled with the hidden danger of injury to the cruciate ligament in the knee of Little Potato, Little Potato has lived a life of displacement after leaving the Knicks, and has not found a stable place to live. In 2016, he even went to the European League, and within a year he returned to the 76ers Development League, and in most people's eyes, Robinson, who was approaching the middle and late stages of his career, was about to fade out of sight.