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Bogus argumentation: We saw how small-ball-only ended up. It was a worth while experiment but it ended bad for the Rockets.

But this guy demands this for the whole league. So the thrown out players will immediately form a new TBL league (Tall Basketball Association), will get the contracts and teams and will easily bypass the old Dwarf NBA, because it has all the stars, whilst the old NBA has only the dwarfs, the regular folks. Silly

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The problem isn't that there are tall people in the NBA. The problem is that regular height people cannot compete if they are forced to play against those tall people. Many people by default give up on the idea of playing basketball because they aren't tall enough, even though they may very well be able to excel at the game against people of their own height. So the solution would be more like creating different leagues for different heights or something to that effect, so that anyone can go up against people who are in their height class without suffering a disadvantage they will never be able to make up for due to being born how they are. Since pro basketball has selected for tall people, we are seeing all these tall people playing each other. But at their height, being that tall doesn't really give them much advantage over the other players, who are also all tall. Most people are not NBA tall as it is. Maybe they will find it more fun to watch or participate in basketball where the people aren't genetic outliers and the outcomes will depend entirely on their skills and effort? I don't think it's guaranteed that a "Tall Basketball League" would be successful, even if it contains more stars, than a basketball league where height is not a barrier to entry. Manlets outnumber the lanklets in the end.

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