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Photo: Rybak (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
Tale of the tape
Measure Up to Shaq
Seven-foot-one. Size 22. Enter your numbers and get drawn to scale beside him. Results may cause humility.
Shaq has 16 in on you.
The top of your head reaches his shoulders.
Eye-to-eye
1.6
basketballs stacked under your feet to look him in the eye (a regulation ball is about 9.4 in across). Please don't try this.
Foot vs. foot
A size 22 works out to a foot roughly 15.3 in long on the Brannock scale, about 1.35× the length of yours.
Percent of a Shaq
81%
of a Shaq, by height. By weight, his playing listing of about 325 lb would be a different and much more humbling calculation.
His autographed sneaker on display at the Naismith Hall of Fame (photographed in 2008).
Figures are drawn to scale by height; body proportions are stylized. Foot length is estimated from US men's sizing.