The New York Times has a story on the tallest dude in basketball, 7-foot-9 Sun Ming Ming of China: Basketball Skills Come Slowly to a 7-Foot-9 Center From China. It's lonely up there, so he's been hanging with 7-foot-7 former NBA center Gheorghe Muresan. The accompanying photo of the two together looks like it's been distorted or stretched in some way, but it hasn't. Those are just two really really monstrously tall guys.