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Wolves destroying the Lakers again, not looking good for our hopes of them missing the play-in with how LA is faltering.
 
I LOVE the NBA Cup. I think the haters will be malcontents no matter what. The level of play in these games rises significantly.
 
LogGrad98 said:
You don't understand genetics very well do you? Hitting that genetic lottery is much more likely when they are pulling from the same gene pool than not. This is why you tend to see lots of relatives of professional players have relatives, even more distant relatives, who are also professional athletes, like NBA, MLB, NFL, etc. So and so has a cousin who is a professional baseball player or hockey player or whatever. Pulling random sets of genes from non-athlete gene pools are far less likely to generate elite genetics than pulling from the same or a related gene pool. Add into that aspect the fact that most families with elite athletes generally are more affluent and able to provide the key development needs of a budding pro athlete, and then the professional connections (the nepotism argument) as the icing on the cake, and it is a wonder we don't see more sports-dominating families, tbh.

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Liverpool are having tremendous success in developing the children of former pro players through their youth teams, I believe they have half a dozen in the their youth squads at the moment. If you look to a lot of the Aussie lads going over to the US now they are the sons of US imports, Simmons, Exum, Daniels, in the case of Giddey his father was a pro here. In a sport like basketball where height and athleticism are a key attributes for success at NBA level genetics obviously helps. There is however a big element of nepotism, couple of the guys I grew up playing sports with had older brothers who were playing in high level comps, semi pro or youth development level, the younger brothers would often get picked for rep teams ahead of better less connected kids.
 
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