Kyle Korver isn't really walking around town a bit taller these days.

The Jazz's 2008-09 roster just says he is.

And Korver isn't the only Jazz player with different numbers in the height and weight columns of the 2008-09 roster. Of the 13 returning players who were here for at least part of last season, only Carlos Boozer, Mehmet Okur, Matt Harpring and Morris Almond have the same measurements listed in this year's media guide.

The rest all have different tales of the tape — some, of course, which may or not stretch their heights and the truth a bit.

"The height thing is never always right," Jazz starting small forward C.J. Miles said. "Some people are taller, some people are shorter. Most times they say people are taller than what they really are."

Brevin Knight, for instance, is really 5-foot-9-and-3/4 inches, not 5-10 as advertised.

Tsk, tsk.

In Korver's case, though, he insists the opposite is true.

Turns out, the sharpshooter's NBA season home on the Wasatch Front isn't the only place where Korver gained some elevation after being traded to Utah from Philadelphia last year.

Korver is now listed as being 6-foot-7 tall, instead of 6-6.

"I've always been 6-7. They've been robbing me of my inch for four years," Korver said, laughing. "I didn't grow. They've listed me as 6-6 for a long time. I don't know why."

He might even swear that's the truth and the whole truth on a stack of Bibles. And, no, his taller measurement wasn't taken while he was standing on that same stack of scriptures.

"That's without shoes," he clarified, laughing. "I'm pushing 6-8 with my shoes on."

Which doesn't make him all that smaller than the 6-9 Boozer and about the same as 6-8 Paul Millsap.

"I like to look at a lot of our 4-men. I kinda look them in the eye and let them know I'm right there with them," he joked.

Most roster changes, though, are with the weight confessions, er, listings — something people who fudge/fib on what they really weigh on their driver's licenses can probably appreciate.

Not counting the newcomers, the Jazz have gained 24 pounds since last season. Two Jazz big men are now actually bigger men, with 7-1 Kyrylo Fesenko packing on an additional 12 pounds (or 5.45 kilograms in that other measuring standard) to reach the big 3-0-0 and Jarron Collins adding 10 pounds to put his frame at 6-11, 249.

Five other Jazz guys added mass as well, including the beefed-up Ronnie Brewer. Most gains came from the weight room, of course — or at least that's the story from Fesenko, who kept flexing his guns under his warm-up shirt while talking about the subject.

The second-year NBA player said he doesn't worry about measurement discrepancies. He laughs that some say he's 6-11, while others claim he's at 7-2. And Fesenko? He says he is 214 or 215 centimeters. Then again, he also says he weighs 130 kilograms, which puts him at 286 American pounds.

"I've been working hard," he said, while flexing.

Two players' weights are lower: Millsap wins the Jenny Craig Award, going from 258 to 250, and Ronnie Price dropped six pounds (now 184).

And imagine this: Nobody went down in height.

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