Nikola Jokic

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Their large bodies are clearly subjected to greater stress than humans of average size. Combine that with being in a profession that is much more physically demanding than the typical desk job and injures are a huge risk and a cost of doing business.

But, they are more than adequately paid for their services. Some here consider Meyer Leonard a bust and a huge disappointment. Others consider him a bargain at $41 million over the next four years. Good work, if you can get it. How many other people have a guaranteed income of $41 million at the age of 24? If only I'd been 7" or 8" taller...

BNM

I meet guys 6'10 or so every so often. I feel bad for them if they didn't make tons of cash from being tall. At my size, things are too small.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

If I could have been 10 inches taller but exactly as athletic as I was Shaq and I would have had epic battles.

My friends called me baby Sabonis because I could do it all. Haha

 

[Boob-No-More]

We should assume all 7 feet high people are injury prone. It's a damn shame honestly.

And maybe that's the key. Jokic is "only 6'10". I wonder what the correlation is between height and likelihood of serious injury. How much more likely is a player of > 7' to suffer a career ending injury than someone 6'10". Of course, some of it is genetic, some just suffer freak injuries by being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but it sure does appear (and seems intuitive) that the taller the player, the more prone they are to seriously debilitating injuries.

Of course, Brandon Roy was only 6'6", but he was the exception rather than the norm for a player of his size.

BNM

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I think guys legit over 7 feet barefoot are usually just twigs. Not always, but most. I don't know how tall Shaq really is but he is just a huge guy of somewhat normal proportions.

 

[Boob-No-More]

If I could have been 10 inches taller but exactly as athletic as I was Shaq and I would have had epic battles.

My friends called me baby Sabonis because I could do it all. Haha

I was a low post stud in my younger days. I had good low post moves and could score equally well with either hand around the basket. Even up to my early 40s I was dominant in the paint when playing against younger guys, and had Pat Connaughton like hops (ok, not quite, but close) in my 20s, but no one needs a 6'4" white American born center at anything beyond the high school level.

BNM

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I was a low post stud in my younger days. I had good low post moves and could score equally well with either hand around the basket. Even up to my early 40s I was dominant in the paint when playing against younger guys, and had Pat Connaughton like hops (ok, not quite, but close) in my 20s, but no one needs a 6'4" white American born center at anything beyond the high school level.

BNM

I should have been a football player (hated it)

6'2 with a 30 inch inseam. Short legs. Had Steph Curry range, just not the percentages. Mostly due to being blind as a bat without glasses.

 

[Boob-No-More]

I think guys legit over 7 feet barefoot are usually just twigs. Not always, but most. I don't know how tall Shaq really is but he is just a huge guy of somewhat normal proportions.

I played against a few 7-footers in high school and college. Most were slow and incredibly weak - very easy to push around for someone with a lower center of gravity. I don't think I was ever outrebonded by anyone over 7 feet tall. They were easy to box out and I was much quicker to the ball.

Of course, none of them were built like Shaq either. If they were, they would have had no business playing against the likes of me.

BNM

 

[Boob-No-More]

I should have been a football player (hated it)

6'2 with a 30 inch inseam. Short legs. Had Steph Curry range, just not the percentages. Mostly due to being blind as a bat without glasses.

I never developed a 3-point shot. It wasn't even a thing when I was in high school. I did, and still do, have a very reliable midrange jumper out to 17 feet to go with my low post moves. I also had a 38" vertical and hands big enough to palm a basketball in 6th grade.

Now, I'm just old.

BNM

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I never developed a 3-point shot. It wasn't even a thing when I was in high school. I did, and still do, have a very reliable midrange jumper out to 17 feet to go with my low post moves. I also had a 38" vertical and hands big enough to palm a basketball in 6th grade.

Now, I'm just old.

BNM

I could barely ever palm an underinflated basketball but could dunk it until I was 24. I had Rod Strickland spin off the glass and a wicked fade away from the left corner three, it was my favorite.

 

[theprunetang]

I could barely ever palm an underinflated basketball but could dunk it until I was 24. I had Rod Strickland spin off the glass and a wicked fade away from the left corner three, it was my favorite.

Yeah. Well I uh......fuck...I was and am terrible at basketball. I made Babbitt look like an upgraded MJ.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I never developed a 3-point shot. It wasn't even a thing when I was in high school. I did, and still do, have a very reliable midrange jumper out to 17 feet to go with my low post moves. I also had a 38" vertical and hands big enough to palm a basketball in 6th grade.

That must have been very impressive back in the '50's when you were young.

 

[Boob-No-More]

That must have been very impressive back in the '50's when you were young.

Yeah boy, you got that right. I was the bee's knees, the cat's pajamas. Wilt wasn't the first one that forced them to change the rules. They switched from actual peach baskets to metal rims after the local farmers complained that I was ruining all their peach baskets by hanging on the basket after my high flying dunks. Dr. Naismith himself was appalled. He told me so himself. He was a rather opinionated young man.

BNM

 

[Minstrel]