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With professional sports or the olympics it's basically a hard requirement. Does anyone get into the NBA who didn't spend thousands of hours practicing basketba
by Reedx 11y ago
With professional sports or the olympics it's basically a hard requirement. Does anyone get into the NBA who didn't spend thousands of hours practicing basketball as a kid?
Whereas you could write a successful book at any age and on your first try (although unlikely).
- DrScump 11y ago"Does anyone get into the NBA who didn't spend thousands of hours practicing basketball as a kid?" Sure, if you're unusually tall or athletic. The Warriors' Festus Ezeli never played organized basketball of any kind until college. Manute Bol didn't start until his mid-teens.
- aswanson 11y agoOk. Let's narrow it down. Does anyone make it to the NBA at a position that requires something other than being able to run up and down the floor at a decent speed and be around 7 feet tall that didnt do so? A non-center position? Certainly no guard, small forward, or power forward I know of. And even those people you mentioned were/are non-exceptional backups or non-starters.
- kelukelugames 11y agoI made the original post and I agree with you. I want to mention that two of the GOATs started at 15 because I think that is insane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Duncan#Early_life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Duncan#Early_life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakeem_Olajuwon#Early_life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakeem_Olajuwon#Early_life