List of shortest players in NBA history

This is a complete listing of players in the history of the National Basketball Association with listed heights of 5-foot-9-inch (1.75 m) or shorter. Only 27 NBA players have been at or below this height. The shortest NBA player to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is Calvin Murphy at 5-foot-9-inch (1.75 m). All of the players listed here have played the position of point guard. The most seasons played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) by a player listed at 5-foot-6-inch (1.68 m) or shorter was 14 seasons by Muggsy Bogues who played from 1987 to 2001. Yuki Kawamura at 5-foot-7-inch (1.70 m) is currently the only active NBA player listed under 5-foot-9-inch (1.75 m) and currently the shortest active NBA player.

The shortest player ever in the defunct American Basketball Association (1967–76) was Penny Ann Early, a 5-foot-3-inch (1.60 m) jockey who took part in one play in one game for the Kentucky Colonels as a publicity stunt in 1969. The shortest signed ABA players were Jerry Dover and Monte Towe, both 5-foot-7-inch (1.70 m).