Clippers Roster Now Has NBA's Tallest And Shortest Players
TLDR: The Clippers signed 7'5" center Jamarion Sharp and 5'7" guard Yuki Kawamura in the same week, giving one roster both ends of the NBA's height spectrum.
The Clippers just cornered the market on NBA extremes. Within days of each other, the team signed 7'5" center Jamarion Sharp to a two-way contract and 5'7" guard Yuki Kawamura to an Exhibit 10 deal, meaning one roster now technically houses both the tallest and shortest players set to be on an NBA roster this season.
The Clippers now have the shortest and tallest players in the NBA 😳 Yuki Kawamura — 5’7” Jamarion Sharp — 7’5” Insane.
Sharp's arrival is the bigger basketball story. He was the 2025-26 G League Defensive Player of the Year, averaging 7.1 points, 7.3 rebounds and 3.8 blocks in under 25 minutes a night for the Texas Legends, and his two-way deal is reportedly a one-year, $678,882 contract with $91,000 guaranteed. That length pushes him past Victor Wembanyama, listed at 7'4", and Zach Edey, listed at 7'3", as the tallest active player in the league.
New tallest player in the NBA 🚨 The Clippers have signed 7'5" center Jamarion Sharp to a two-way contract, making him the tallest active player in the league, ahead of Victor Wembanyama and Zach Edey 👀
None of that touches Wembanyama's standing as the sport's most important giant — he's still the reigning Defensive Player of the Year and a Finals participant — but the raw height record, at least for now, belongs to a guy who just spent last season in the G League. Sharp will have to actually earn NBA minutes to matter beyond a novelty stat, and two-way deals cap him at 50 NBA games this season.
Kawamura's deal is the flip side. The 25-year-old Japanese guard went undrafted in 2023, signed with Memphis as a two-way player after winning MVP and Rookie of the Year in Japan's B League, and now lands on a non-guaranteed Exhibit 10 with the Clippers that comes with a G League bonus if things don't work out at the NBA level. It's a camp invite more than a roster lock, but it's enough to make him, on paper, the shortest player attached to an NBA team.
The L.A. Clippers will have both the tallest and shortest player in the NBA next season 🏀 This week, the Clippers made use of their two-way and exhibit 10 contracts by signing former G-League DPOY Jamarion Sharp and Japan star Yuki Kawamura. Barring a growth spurt from Wemby or a team signing Tacko Fall, Sharp will officially be the tallest registered player in the league next season standing 7'5". And unless a team signs someone who stands shorter than 5'7", Kawamura will be the shortest player on a roster by the start of training camp. The last time one team had both the tallest and shortest player in the league was during the 1987–88 NBA season when the Washington Bullets had Manute Bol (7'7") and Muggsy Bogues (5'3"). Side by side, Sharp and Kawamura have a height difference of 22 inches 🤯
The league's average height keeps climbing — 6'7" last season, according to The Hoops Geek, with 7'3" Aday Mara and Sharp both joining rosters this year pushing that number up further — which makes a two-way big man drawing headlines feel almost inevitable. But it's the pairing that makes this a story: one franchise fielding a two-way center taller than Wembanyama and a training-camp guard shorter than Jalen Brunson at the same time is the kind of roster quirk that doesn't happen by accident, even if neither guy is guaranteed to see the court in October.
