First Larry Nance Jr., now Glenn Robinson III. I’m sick and tired of these sons of NBA players coming in and dunking all over everybody! The role of genetics in athletic ability is well documented, but if you want the abridged version, it basically means that if your dad played in the NBA, you get like a free pass to at least a good Div I NCAA program, and otherwise you’re facing long odds. Really long odds. Longer than Scottie Pippen.
DAMMIT.
Does this seem unfair to anyone else? Like, I was given only one chance at life, only one chance to make the NBA, but my loser dad had to go and not be an NBA player. My odds went way down the second he failed to get selected in the 1969 draft (he also failed to get selected in the OTHER draft that year, which was more to future-me’s favor).
So now I am stuck making highlights of these dudes while cursing my inferior genetics. Hopefully eugenics is far enough along by the time I have my 3rd kid so that I can tell the doctors to give me an NBA player. Then I can vicariously live my NBA dreams through him and maybe even make highlights of his 30-point games.