I found this nice article on the NBA´s Media web site: << The Houston Rockets are the heaviest team at 236.92 pounds, but the Rockets are well under the record set by Chicago in 1996-97 at 241.07. The lightest team is the Denver Nuggets at 216.73 pounds. >> Thanks to the heaviest player, T-Ham... The rest of the report: The average NBA player for the 1999-2000 season is the oldest, most experienced, and heaviest NBA player ever. The average player is taller than his counterpart in the 1998-99 season, just shy of the record height. Those were among the findings of the 20th annual NBA Player Survey, compiled by Bill Kreifeldt, former PR director of the Detroit Pistons, Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Clippers. With an average age of 27.95 (27 years, 347 days), this season's players are the oldest on record, up from last year's average age of 27.82. The age corresponds with more experience — 5.20 years, more than last year's average of 4.81 years and easily breaking the record of 4.82 years set in 1997-98. The average weight this season is a record 224.68 pounds, bulkier than last season's average of 222.85 pounds. The previous record of 223.67 pounds was set in 1996-97. The only category that didn't set a record this season is in height. The average NBA player this season stands at 6-7.26 inches, up from last year's 6-7.10 and reversing a trend that saw the average height decline in four of the last five seasons, but below the record of 6-7.34 set in 1993-94. Russell The player who comes closest to being "Mr. Average" is Utah's Bryon Russell at 6-7, 225, with six years of experience at 28.84 years of age. This year's survey examined the November 2 opening day rosters of the NBA's 29 teams with a total of 419 players. Other findings: The Indiana Pacers repeat as the NBA's tallest team at 6-8.71, while Atlanta edged Seattle as the league's shortest team at 6-6.46. Seattle measured in at 6-6.47. The Houston Rockets are the heaviest team at 236.92 pounds, but the Rockets are well under the record set by Chicago in 1996-97 at 241.07. The lightest team is the Denver Nuggets at 216.73 pounds. The San Antonio Spurs have become the league's oldest team at 30.71 years, replacing the New York Knicks, who had led for the last two seasons but now slip to third. The Spurs are almost a year older than runner-up Portland's 29.92 average and the Spurs have a record 10 players 30 and older. San Antonio is also the most experienced team at 7.80 years per man with seven players having more than 10 years experience. Indiana, next with 7.07 years of experience, is almost three-quarters of a year behind the Spurs. At the other extreme, the Los Angeles Clippers are the league's youngest and least experienced team. The Clippers' players average 25.25 years in age, almost 5.5 years behind the Spurs, and have 2.50 years of pro experience. There are a record 94 players weighing in at 250 pounds or more, a 140 players age 30 or older (33.4 percent of the league's players), a record six teenagers, a record-tying 69 players who are 10-year veterans (16.5 percent of the league), one less rookie (61) than last year's record and four more 7-footers (43) than a year ago. Individual NBA players who led the league in specific categories are as follows: Tallest: 7-7, Gheorghe Muresan, New Jersey Bogues Shortest: 5-3, Muggsy Bogues, Toronto (this is the 12th consecutive year that Bogues measures as the league's shortest player) Heaviest: 330, Thomas Hamilton, Houston Lightest: 141, Muggsy Bogues, Toronto Oldest: 40 years and 176 days, Danny Schayes, Minnesota Youngest: 18 years and 276 days, Jonathan Bender, Indiana (Bender was born less than five months before Schayes was drafted in the first round out of Syracuse by Utah in June 1981) Most experienced: 18 years, Danny Schayes, Minnesota ------------------ What do you expect from someone who beats up his fiancee?
