{"id":853092,"date":"2026-08-10T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853092\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:20:10","slug":"new-tallest-active-nba-player-jamarion-sharp-lands-clippers-contract-how-does-wemby-compare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853092\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tallest Active NBA Player Jamarion Sharp Lands Clippers Contract, How Does Wemby Compare?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Clippers made a new addition that will undoubtedly boost their size in the frontcourt.<\/p>\n

The Clippers signed center Jamarion Sharp to a two-way contract on Monday. At 7’5″, Sharp is officially the tallest active player in the NBA ahead of San Antonio Spurs star big man Victor Wembanyama, who is listed at 7’4″.<\/p>\n

After a five-year college career that included two junior college seasons, two years at Western Kentucky and a year at Ole Miss, Sharp went undrafted in 2024 and signed with the Texas Legends of the G League. He was\u00a0named<\/a>\u00a0the 2025-26 G League Defensive Player of the Year after averaging 7.1 points, 7.3 rebounds and a league-high 3.8 blocks per game. He’s the first player in Legends franchise history to win the award. He also shot a league-best 73.5 percent from the field.<\/p>\n

Sharp played for the Toronto Raptors in the NBA summer league in Las Vegas last month and\u00a0averaged<\/a>\u00a07.4 points, 7.4 rebounds and 2.8 blocks across five games. He dropped 17 points, seven rebounds and two blocks in a matchup against the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n

Adding Sharp could help the Clippers have better success against Wembanyama, who has dominated them throughout his young career. Per\u00a0StatMuse<\/a>, Wembanyama averaged 20.5 points, 10.0 rebounds and 3.6 blocks in eight career games against Los Angeles. He had a double-double in all three of their matchups last season, all of which were won by the Spurs.<\/p>\n

Sharp will have the chance to prove that he can be an effective rim protector as he tries to carve out a role with the Clippers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Clippers made a new addition that will undoubtedly boost their size in the frontcourt. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-853092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}