The medical research about spinal stretching spans many decades and have been attributed to the success of many basketball players who sought to increase their height beginning in their middle school years.” Sport can make your height to get high, for sure any sport can and basketball is a sport that make spinals to stretch because basketball have to run, jump and shoot. So that’s why basketball players are tall. That is the way of spinals, bones, body and joints to stretch. Anyway, people can get their height from playing basketball but they have to play it often maybe not same as basketball player but have to play often.