Originally Posted by
69chevy
It "proves it" lmao. Did you read the article? When a kid hits 6' tall in grade school, coaches invest a lot of time. If you had a cycling coach at the age of 10, you'd probably be a team rider.
This just proves my point! A kid who hits 6' in grade school gets the attention of coaches BECAUSE EXTREME HEIGHT IS THE PRIMARY FACTOR IN PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL.
When you go from a statistical impossibility (1 in a million) for the general population to ONE IN SEVEN, that proves that being incredibly tall is enough to have a very decent shot at an NBA career.