Normally they play the center position.
Point Guard (PG)
If you want to play pivet, you will have to be one of the tallest person in the team and you should be very good at basketball. Height does not matter, all that matters is how good you are at offence and deffence and how well you play the game
Zing Wang Yan was approximately 7ft 8 in and for the minnesota Timberwolves in 1973.
Positions are not based solely on height, but generally the tallest player is used as a guard.
Vincent Pourchot is currently the tallest person that is from France. Vincent plays basketball and is 7 feet 2.6 inches tall.
Mike Lanier was 7ft.8inches
center c or power forward pf
Roy Hibbert 7'2 2005-2008
An elderly person in a wheelchair could play basketball, although probably not very well. But nothing would prevent such a person from throwing a basketball at a hoop.
The tallest person in the world is about 8 feet 3 inches tall, while the shortest person is around 21 inches tall. This makes the difference in height between the tallest and shortest person roughly 5 feet 6 inches.
There was not a first person to play NBA basketball ,ritard, basketball is played in teams.