{"id":14607,"date":"2025-07-22T23:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T23:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14607\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T23:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T23:45:07","slug":"celtics-2025-draft-pick-is-behind-only-tacko-fall-in-shocking-nba-draft-combine-measurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14607\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics 2025 draft pick is behind only Tacko Fall in shocking NBA Draft Combine measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many players are invited each year to the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA <\/a>Draft Combine.<\/p>\n<p>Players are tested through drills, but here is also where official body measurement data is collected.<\/p>\n<p>Everything from height to standing reach is recorded.<\/p>\n<p>One measurement they record is hand length, which one player in the 2025 Draft Combine had a near-record measurement.<\/p>\n<p>What was the near-record measurement?<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nba\/boston-celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Celtics<\/a>&#8216; rookie Hugo Gonzalez was recorded at the combine with a hand length of 10.25 inches (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMY8P6xPlSi\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MWh5YTUyNnFyb2NqYg==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@courtsidebuzzig<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez is just 19 years old, yet clocks in with one of the highest measurements in this category, in NBA combine history.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/stats\/draft\/combine-anthro?SeasonYear=2025-26&amp;dir=D&amp;sort=HAND_LENGTH\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The NBA combine database<\/a> only shows from 2011 and on, but either way, it&#8217;s crazy to see a guard have one of the highest measurements in this category.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez is tied for second, with players Xavier Tillman and Dexter Pittman.<\/p>\n<p>Tacko Fall is first on the list since 2011, with a measurement of 10.50 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Kawhi Leonard, who is known as the &#8216;Klaw&#8217; for his huge hands, only had a hand length of\u00a0 9.75 inches at the combine.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics are hoping that\u00a0Gonzalez can blossom into an impact player in Boston, with a chance to get some real minutes already in his rookie season.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NBA NEWS:<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many players are invited each year to the NBA Draft Combine. Players are tested through drills, but here&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-14607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}