Charles Barkley is not 6-foot-6. LeBron James almost assuredly does not weigh 250 pounds. And Buddy Hield was not born in 1993.

Proving once again that you cannot necessarily trust the biographical information published about NBA players, Hield, a breakout star for the Sacramento Kings, has revealed that he is a year older than nearly everyone assumed. The trick, however, is that he said he never told anyone the wrong age.

The situation arose Monday night, with Hield celebrating his birthday as his team lost handily to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Before the game, Hield told the Kings’ broadcast team that he was turning 26, which threw many people for a loop, as NBA.com and nearly every media outlet have his birth date listed as Dec. 17, 1993, which would have made him 25.

As of 10 p.m. Thursday, that was still the case in terms of NBA.com, Basketball-Reference.com and other major websites.

Hield was asked about the discrepancy following Sacramento’s loss to Oklahoma City on Wednesday, and NBCSports.com reports that Hield said it was a case of people believing what they read on the internet without verifying the information.

“That’s their fault, not my fault,” Hield said of the sites that have his age wrong. “The first time I saw it on Wikipedia, my mom said, ‘Why do they have your age wrong?’ I said, ‘I have no idea.’ ”

— New York Times News Service