The video of Tacko Fall and Shaq greeting each other at the courtside of NBA All-Star Weekend has recently gone viral. Shaq appears much shorter than Tacko despite being considered the largest man, with a 7-foot-1-inch height and 325-pound weight.
Well, Tacko is five inches taller than the giant man, Shaquille O’Neal, also known as Shaq, a former American professional basketball player and an NBA analyst.
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While the average American man is 5 feet 9 inches tall, Shaq is significantly taller than the average, but Tacko Fall has overshadowed him.
Tacko Fall, a native of Senegal who has previously played for the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers, is 7 feet and 6 inches tall.
Additionally, according to reports, Tacko is one of the tallest players in NBA history, falling in the second-tallest category after Gheorghe Mureșan and Manute Bol, who are 7 feet 7 inches tall.
Shaq revealed once that he regretted being 7 feet 1 inches tall; why so?
Even though Shaq might not be the tallest player in NBA history, his 7’1″ height is not a joke, and he is happy with it.
However, there is one exception situation in which he is uncomfortable with the height he got. In an exclusive conversation with People in 2023, he shared the moment he wished he was shorter.
Shaq mentioned the only time he has a problem being 7’1 is when it comes to driving sports cars. At the time, he had wished he was shorter. “They’ve got these Lamborghinis and Ferrari and I used to have to buy two, shrimp them up, spend a crazy amount of money and take the convertible part off to make myself fit,” Shaq says.
Further, he said, “But that’s the only time I’ve wished I was smaller, so I can get into some of these expensive sports cars, Other than that, I’ve never had that thought process.”
Additional Information
- Tacko Fall was born on December 10, 1995, in Dakar Senegal, and spent 15 years there with his family including his Marianne Diop Sene and moved to US at 16.
- Shaquille O’Neal was born on March 6, 1972, in Newark, New Jersey, to Lucille O’Neal and Joe Toney, who were 6’2 and 6’1, respectively.
- Shaq’s Toney was addicted to drugs and was imprisoned for drug possession when Shaq was an infant, so he was raised by his mother and stepfather.
