Tyler Herro Records Shortest Wingspan at NBA Combine

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Tyler Herro possesses one of the finest shooting motions you'll ever see out of an NBA prospect. But one thing you don't notice when watching him nail triple after triple is that his arms are unusually small for a player his size. According to Jonathan Givony of ESPN, Herro recorded the shortest wingspan measurement of any player at this year's NBA combine. Standing at 6-foot-6 with shoes on, Herro's wingspan topped out at 6-foot-3.

On the other end of the spectrum is the dreaded "negative wingspan," which is somewhat rare among NBA players. Here are the shortest wingspans relative to their height. pic.twitter.com/sPYK1sop2P
— Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) May 16, 2019

It's incredibly rare to see a prospect - especially one as gifted as Herro - with a wingspan that is significantly shorter than his height. Typically, a shorter wingspan is comparable to when a player's height and arms equal in length. However, Herro wasn't blessed with that attribute and it doesn't appear to have hampered his shooting abilities one bit. The only area it will noticeably hurt him is on defense when he's swiping for loose balls and guarding quicker and smaller guards. P.J. Washington actually recorded one of the longest wingspans at the Combine. His wingspan stretches past seven-feet despite him standing at 6-foot-6 without shoes.

One of the most interesting things to study with the measurements is comparing players height without shoes w/their wingspan. You often hear NBA scouts saying "he's a plus X". Talen Horton-Tucker is a huge outlier in the context of our database, which has thousands of entries. pic.twitter.com/dyvQCExTw2
— Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) May 16, 2019

There was always this (unnecessary) red flag surrounding Julius Randle and his "Tyrannosaurus Rex" build. Randle has obviously since become a dominant player in the paint despite his "small wingspan" (talking down on Randle's 6-foot-11 wingspan compared to his 6-foot-9 height is just nit-picking, anyway). Randle could use longer arms to help protect the rim, but he never came into the league with the identity of being an elite shot blocker.