[Navy Patriot]

What White People Don’t See When They Watch Basketball

The Box Office?

[Vigilanteman]

Basketball is the only sport that gets duller as the level of competition goes up. We had a 5'6" kid in high school who could literally scamper under the outstretched arms of blockers to make baskets. Very exciting.

By college, you still have kids who can make exciting 3 point shots. Not quite as exciting as my high school classmate, but close.

NBA: eight foot guys making eight foot baskets. Whoopie!

They ought to raise the basket at least five feet higher than the median height of players in the league. Coach John Wooden suggested something similar when he was alive, but the regulation height is still what it was more than a century ago when Naismith invented the game . . . in an era when 5'6" was an AVERAGE height.