I can confirm hand strength matters more than size for palming a basketball. I’m 6'1, have huge, but not giant hands, but are strong. I have been able to palm a basketball since I was 14 at 5'10. To this day, I can palm a ball while lifting up a finger off of it, each finger individually except the thumb. Yeah, like…

Correction, second to last paragraph

Obviously the Judge. It went to law school.