I'm thinking at least 7'0" after 6-12 months of specific high-jump training. At least.
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/05/andrew-wiggins-vertical-leap
I'm thinking at least 7'0" after 6-12 months of specific high-jump training. At least.
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/05/andrew-wiggins-vertical-leap
considering there are have been guys in the NBA who jumped 7' in college or high school and none of those guys have/had quite the combination of hops and height that Andrew has it's pretty safe to say had Wiggins been inclined to be a high jumper from say age 14 onward he would have been world class, but at this stage in his athletic career the point is moot.
Which NBA guys jumped 7 ft in college?
And really, that video shows how long his body is more so than a high vert score. That looks to be about 37 to 40 assuming the guy measure is 6ft.
that picture*
Oh, I found it, Jeremy Evans, NBA Slam Dunk Champion in 2012 and 43.5" vertical did HJ all through college. The best he did was 6'10 though.
So, I would give Wiggins 6'8 ish.
Wilt Chamberlain
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Andrew Wiggins mother was an Olympian for Canada - running 49.91 for 400m and 22.63 for 200m. She is still the Canadian record holder at 200m.
She was 4th in the 400m at the Los Angeles Olympics of 1984.
google works well wrote:
Which NBA guys jumped 7 ft in college?
I remember Tim James, who played for the Heat, and others, jumped 7' in HS at Miami Northwestern
2 leg vertical jump and hj have low correlation
NBA salary vs track salary, hmmmmmmmm, I think he made the correct decision.
joel przybilla wrote:
considering there are have been guys in the NBA who jumped 7' in college or high school and none of those guys have/had quite the combination of hops and height that Andrew has it's pretty safe to say had Wiggins been inclined to be a high jumper from say age 14 onward he would have been world class, but at this stage in his athletic career the point is moot.
google works well wrote:
Which NBA guys jumped 7 ft in college?
Not an NBA player but NFL wide receiver Herman Moore jumped 7'3" in college and still owns the UVa school record.
Wilt Chamberlain?
.cowp wrote:
Wilt Chamberlain?
Wilt high jumped 7'6" at Kansas. You figure if he focused on that instead of basketball after college he easily could have improved a foot, or at least 8'6". I believe he was 7'7" - just a massive man.
.cowp wrote:
Wilt Chamberlain?
quick google searching does not substantiate anything more than 6'6" for Wilt.
trolololololololol wrote:
2 leg vertical jump and hj have low correlation
This. Well, probably strong correlation at the high school level. If you have a springy guy, you can put him in high jump and likely get some points.
But running and jumping off of one foot and bending your body over a bar is not the same as springing off of two feet for basketball. At the college level, there are probably a lot of 6'8" high jumpers who have much better verticals than 7'5" high jumpers.
Also Wilt was (famously) seven feet and one inch tall.
The OP's linked photo doesn't tell us much about the guy's vertical. Was it from a stand? Step-and-jump? Two-steps-and-jump? Those give very different results.
And, as someone said above, a two-footed vertical test doesn't correlate terribly strongly with high jump potential.
Yankee Fan wrote:
.cowp wrote:Wilt Chamberlain?
Wilt high jumped 7'6" at Kansas. You figure if he focused on that instead of basketball after college he easily could have improved a foot, or at least 8'6". I believe he was 7'7" - just a massive man.
Completely false. He would have been a world record holder. 7'6" was not broken until 1971.
Mr. Obvious wrote:
.cowp wrote:Wilt Chamberlain?
quick google searching does not substantiate anything more than 6'6" for Wilt.
That's right. 7-6 is 5" above the world record when Wilt was in college. 6-6 was really good for that era.
Bill Russell high jumped 6'9", which was world class at the time.