The NBA's smallest player was no benchwarmer, even at 5-foot-3.

As Lord Varys told Tyrion Lannister in “Game of Thrones,” “A very small man can cast a very large shadow.” The adage applied in Westeros, and it has also wrung true in the NBA. Going up against some ...

Standing at just five feet, eight inches tall, Yuki Kawamura is perhaps an unlikely basketball star. “It’s not like I can do any dunk shots,” says the NBA’s current shortest player, who is almost a ...

Kawamura made his debut with the Bulls during the team’s Jan. 31 matchup with the Miami Heat NBA;Megan Briggs/Getty Yuki Kawamura is the shortest active player in the NBA and in Chicago Bulls history ...

1936 — Jay Berwanger, University of Chicago halfback and Heisman Trophy winner, is the first player ever selected in the NFL Draft. The Philadelphia Eagles make the pick and eventually trade his ...