How tall is Magic Johnson?

Magic Johnson is commonly listed at 6 ft 9 in (205.7 cm).

A figure repeated without a date or a measurement. Where this height comes from

Magic Johnson’s 6 ft 9 in (205.7 cm) is very tall for a US man: more than 95 in 100 US men are shorter.

Where your height falls Everyone about 6 ft 9 in

Magic Johnson beside others

Magic Johnson is in the middle of the 158 basketball players we have heights for: Suleiman Ali Nashnush (8 ft 0.5 in) stands 1 ft 3.5 in (39.3 cm) taller and Muggsy Bogues (5 ft 3 in) is 1 ft 6 in (45.7 cm) shorter.

Also listed at 6 ft 9 in: LeBron James, Karl Malone and Carlos Boozer.

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Where this height comes from

6 ft 9 in (205.7 cm)

A commonly listed height, as Wikipedia gives it, with no date or method, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.

Source: Wikipedia

Photo: Daniel Benavides from Austin, TX, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Magic Johnson, 6 ft 9 in (206 cm), drawn to scale beside the average US man, 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), and the average US woman, 5 ft 3.5 in (161 cm)