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The basketball player pictured below was overweight according to the BMI scale. He was listed as 7' 6" and 290 pounds with a BMI of 25.2. If he was 5' 5" with the same proportions, he would have been about 114 pounds and his BMI would have been 18.4, which would have classified him as underweight. This is because they are squaring the proportional height difference instead of cubing it.
In fact, he had a higher BMI than this guy:
Sean Sherk had just weighed in at 5' 6" 155 pounds with a BMI of 25.0, which is lower than Shawn Bradley's.
In fact, he had a higher BMI than this guy:
Sean Sherk had just weighed in at 5' 6" 155 pounds with a BMI of 25.0, which is lower than Shawn Bradley's.