Samuel Deguara is a Maltese professional basketball player for the Tainan TSG GhostHawks of the T1 League. He is the tallest man in Italy and Malta. Standing at 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m), Deguara is currently the joint-third tallest active basketball player in the world, sharing the spot with Montenegrin Slavko Vraneš and is only surpassed by Sun Ming Ming at 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m) and Paul Sturgess, at 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m).