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 ft or shorter. Only 25 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 5ft 9in. 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 ft or shorter was 14 seasons by Muggsy Bogues who played from 1987 to 2001.

The shortest player ever in the old American Basketball Association (1967–76) was Penny Ann Early, a 5 ft 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 ft.)