James White & Others Touching the Top of the Backboard! (or getting really close) 

I was confused by this when I first saw it, but it looks like he's wearing a white wristband the same color as the box on the backboard. You can see the guy in the bottom of the picture is wearing a similar one.

Ricky Baker put him hand through the backboard to get the ball

Wristband

His hand went through the backboard. He is that strong.

*He's beginning to believe*

Nigga u can’t even touch rim don’t talk shit on things u can’t even come close to doing

liam He aint talking shit lol, video said they could touch the top of the bboard and they cant

stretch ringed a bell that measured 12'9 on first try, while wearing casual clothes without any warmup whatsoever. If given enough tries I think his the guy that could legitly touch 13 feet.

@@TheSquatchIsReal oh boy. This kid has the best argument.

Oly1y big liam has anger issues and dreams of a job as a bouncer one day

@Sharmarke Ismail im 273% serious, i mean, i was, cus im a whole ass adult now lol

@Sharmarke Ismail I could ask you the same thing right now

i hope thats sarcasm

Ithink yes?

BG Theo nah

BG Theo we know u can’t

Nah. They can't even touch the bottom of the net.

Dexton crutchfield will

keo the keeper oh shit wtf

Yes, a one step, or no step jump. Imagine a running jump.

Grammar!

@@seeya101oliASWHDFIL the record is 12'6" so many of these are definetely shortened some clearly not regulation

@@thatsalotofdamage8568 where’d you find that stat?

@@dunk23nc it was in a sports science video. It's a basketball record. Held by Dwight Howard.

David Thompson could jump straight up and get the top. Yea those guys are getting up😂

Aka be Wilt Chamberlain

@@utthamprakash4976 yup

10000% true

Camera angle makes appear much higher than what he is. Stoll up really high though

James Flight White touched the top of the backboard and has the longest Free throw dunk ever, being that he jump from the corner of the Free throw line which is the furtherest from the free throw line. He has one dunk attempt which he missed and his arm pit is above the rim. Freaking insane hops!

It’s probably pretty dangerous to try to touch the top of the backboard. Almost a guaranteed sprained ankle.

No, they didn't touch 13 feet. It is extremely rare. And all these guys do it off a run.

Wilts Chamberlain's vertical leap at one point in his nba professional career was measured at 13 feet and 3 inches that's before his knee injuries after that he only managed to stop Kareem Abdul-Jabbar from scoring during a playoff series 23 times!

I haven't heard of anyone doing that.

Earl “The Goat” Manigault

+Jim Morgan The GOAT admitted he wasn't able to do it...

Really? Then where did that come from? Never mind, it was Hillery, right?

AxeMastersINC​ It's hard to retrace the origin of a legend or where it came... the only thing we knew is internet help propagating it.

the missing piece of info. there are 12 and 13ft backboards. back in the 60s 70s 80 there was a lot of 12 footers. thats where the legend comes from

What about the one at 0:49 🤔

I really doubt anyone really touch 13 feet,all came close but not quite. Do you know how high you have to jump to reach that? The NBA Draft combine all time max vert belongs to DJ Stephens at 46 inches. For DJ Stephens to touch 13 feet he has to have a standing reach of 9'2. Usually someone who is 7 feet or close to it will have this kind of reach. Being that tall and having a 46 inch vert is very improbable. For big guys, having a vert in the mid to high 30's is very impressive and even a freak of nature (Height wise and athleticism) like 6'10 Dwight Howard only managed to touch 12'6. Based on my calculations he had about a 39 inch max vert and 9'3 standing reach. Is it impossible? No, but I think it is near-impossible. You would have to be a Olympic level kind of jumper with 50 inch++ vert and be very tall, at least 6'5 or taller with freakish wingspan to genuinely touch 13 feet.

By the way I did some research and apparently theres this 6'7 volleyball player who could get 390 cm which is equal to 13 feet or top of the backboard.. 390cm is the highest max reach ever recorded for a volleyball in the history of it. The next highest recorded was Leonell Marshall at 383cm or about 12'9. www.volleyball-movies.net/matey-kaziyski-high-reach-390cm-m10767

Yeah maybe Wilt could, he needs a 42 inches vertical to reach it which will be very impressive but not impossible. There's another guy on youtube named "Stretch" he ringed a bell that was measured 12'10 on the first try in casual clothes. In the video, he didn't fully extend his arm straight out, kind of leaned forward to touch the bell. I think he could touch 13 feet if he extended fully instead.

How about Robert Wadlow the tallest man in history? Measured at 8'11, would be 9ft or 9'1 tall in shoes. If Wilt at 7'1 had a 9'6 reach. Wadlow at 9 feet tall would have at least a 11'6 reach, probably a few inches more since he has almost 2 foot height on wilt. Lets make a very conservative estimate at 11'8 but if had very long arms it could be 12 feet even. He then needs just 12-16 inches vert to touch 13 feet.

Agree i think he was probably the only one to come close if not touch it.

I’m pretty sure early in wilts career they measured his max reach at 13’3 inches, which is completely nuts