 In basketball and gridiron football, a fingertip-to-fingertip measurement is used to determine the player's wingspan, also called armspan.This is called reach in boxing terminology.The wingspan of 16-year-old BeeJay Anya, a top basketball Junior Class of 2013 prospect who played for the NC State Wolfpack, was officially measured at across, one of the longest of all National Basketball Association draft prospects, and the longest ever for a non-7-foot player, though Anya went undrafted in 2017.