Max Palmer (7'+) 57 Known as the Kentucky Giant or The Giant of the Hills. She sometimes gives him a phone call before she goes to bed, and Freddy mumbles back when he recognizes her voice. Robert Bobroczky, a 7-foot-7, 16-year-old freshman at SPIRE Institute, a state-of-the-art international academy in Geneva, Ohio, is set to become the tallest player to ever play in the NBA and of the tallest in the history of the sport.