Yesterday Chris Herring published a piece on fivethirtyeight.com that analyzed the changes the NBA had seen in it’s players over the last few decades. Herring’s analysis was mainly focused on current NBA players’ height, and how it has affected the type of play we’ve seen in recent years.
Point guards and centers were closer in height last year than they’ve ever been, separated by an average of just 8.3 inches — down 21 percent from the 10.5 inches or so that stood between them during the mid-to-late 1990s, according to data from Basketball-Reference.