11 NBA players with the craziest growth spurts

#5 Gordon Hayward - 12 inches

Gordon Hayward

Another NBA player whose parents are not so tall, Gordon Hayward, throughout his childhood, wanted to be a tennis player and desired a height of 6'2" while his father is around 5'10". Hayward was never really serious about basketball and once recalled:

Hayward's dream of becoming a professional Tennis player would seem to become real when he and his twin sister was featured in a regional edition of the Indianapolis Star when they played mixed doubles tennis at the Indiana State Open in 2005.

During his sophomore year, Hayward was 5'8" and he took off from there to 6'4" and then to around 6'8" in the next 2 years. People around him were really amazed by this sudden huge increase in his height and never expected him to be this tall. Since then, his dream of becoming a professional tennis player started fading and he started taking basketball more seriously than anything else and chose to become an NBA player instead.

Even he never thought himself to be this tall and this increase in his height is also responsible for him choosing basketball as his career.