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Originally Posted by Amnorix
All else being equal, I would chose a MLB or NBA career over football too. More money and less physically punishing = no brainer.
LeBron would be a ridiculous tight end, but you've also named one of the top five, if not the top ONE, athletes to ever play basketball.
Tell me, how would anyone over, say, 6'9" do in football? For the most part, not well. I don't think Kareem Abdul Jabbar would've been much of an NFL player to be honest, no matter how many NBA records he holds. Steph Curry throwing fear into me as, what? A WR? Yeah, not really. How about all those "skinny" (by NFL standards) 6'7" wings in the NBA these days. WTF are they going to do on a football field? They typically lack elite quickness, and they're going to get beat to shit at anything other than WR/CB.
Shaq? Now Shaq is a ridiculous athlete, but he wasn't fast and he was too tall to get good leverage. What is he going to be? Tight end, maybe? There's a reason why NFL players top out at 6'7" or so at TE, and maybe 6'8 at OL. You don't need to dunk on the goalpost to score...
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Yeah, I don't see NBA players as being better athletes than NFL players by any means. They're apples and oranges. Very few of either could survive in the other sport.
I've only been to one NBA game, and I must say, those are some impressive looking dudes, though. There's something about extreme height that's intimidating. It makes me wonder what the everyday life of a 5'-0" woman feels like.
Most of the other sports don't impress me that much. Baseball? Pfft. They're closest in skills to video game players. Soccer? They can't even use their arms. And hockey players are just people who grew up in Canada.
Football and basketball players are the two sports that I associate with freakish athletic ability.