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What made these basketball players grow taller than they should have?

A man generally grows around 14 years and reaches adult height at age 17, however, there seems to be some disparity with this fact among basketball players. according to the articles of Wikipedia for Charles Barkley and Scottie Pippen, both rose after a significant amount when it should have: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Barkley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottie_Pippen Barkley grew about 6 inches after 17 years of age and Pippen grew 6 inches in college, surprisingly. So my question is: what caused these players to grow significantly after the normal human growth is supposed to stop? I see two possibilities: 1. excessive amounts of training caused large emissions of growth hormone (exercise increases the release of growth hormone). Even if growth plates are closed then it would have no effect. 2. Basketball somehow caused his bones to stretch despite having closed growth plates. So the explanation seems more logical?

I think back to survival, if the body has to adapt to competition will, but I believe that genes also play a role too. Few people lose interest or removed from the team before, I'm sure if they could stick with it gain a couple of inches longer.

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