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minus-squareLastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·24 days agohttps://medium.com/@alexgoulden/what-percent-of-human-historys-7-footers-have-played-in-the-nba-ec4ec60c1801 To be fair, if you live in the US and are 7’ or taller, there’s a 17% chance you were employed by the NBA at some point. If you lived anywhere in the world it only drops to 9% So it’s pretty decent odds that any random 7’ or taller person has played basketball professionally.
https://medium.com/@alexgoulden/what-percent-of-human-historys-7-footers-have-played-in-the-nba-ec4ec60c1801
To be fair, if you live in the US and are 7’ or taller, there’s a 17% chance you were employed by the NBA at some point.
If you lived anywhere in the world it only drops to 9%
So it’s pretty decent odds that any random 7’ or taller person has played basketball professionally.