Obama affirms teh gay.

[Savy]

To reach the highest levels of most highly competitive sports you really need to have both.

I don't blame people for thinking hard work is the only thing that matters in athletics. After all, it is what most of us have been told our entire lives.

What you're forgetting though is that if you could somehow pick the person who was genetically best to be a basketball player from birth and let's say he grew up somewhere that he didn't ever play basketball and he didn't really eat enough and eh got to the age of 21ish (prime of his life) then almost anyone who played basketball from 11-21 would be miles better than him.

Also people who tend to have any sort of genetic advantage get picked out and play higher levels and hence dedicate more time to playing the sport than other people. Hence what jack is saying. So not only are they genetically a bit better, but that slight genetic advantage is magnified by their extra playing time. I bet if you look at the distribution of all people who are really tall but not so skewed that there is such a tiny sample size, that the majority of them playing in the NBA were those that had the majority of their growth when they were younger than the rest.

[Lukie]

What you're forgetting though is that if you could somehow pick the person who was genetically best to be a basketball player from birth and let's say he grew up somewhere that he didn't ever play basketball and he didn't really eat enough and eh got to the age of 21ish (prime of his life) then almost anyone who played basketball from 11-21 would be miles better than him.

Also people who tend to have any sort of genetic advantage get picked out and play higher levels and hence dedicate more time to playing the sport than other people. Hence what jack is saying. So not only are they genetically a bit better, but that slight genetic advantage is magnified by their extra playing time. I bet if you look at the distribution of all people who are really tall but not so skewed that there is such a tiny sample size, that the majority of them playing in the NBA were those that had the majority of their growth when they were younger than the rest.

You keep saying that I am forgetting things but really they are just aspects of the topic that haven't even been brought up yet. Of course I realize this. There are a lot more Ezekiel Ansahs out there who didn't have the good fortune of being 'discovered'.

You know, the guy who grew up in Ghana, who had not played american football his entire life, walked onto BYU, played for a few years, and was picked 5th overall this past NFL draft.