{"id":4,"date":"2017-01-03T18:55:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T18:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feelingwow.com\/basketball\/?p=4"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:45:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T09:45:25","slug":"it%e2%80%99s-a-tall-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Basketball_Tips_and_Info_Blog\/it%e2%80%99s-a-tall-order\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Tall Order"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ask a hundred people what word comes to mind when they think about basketball, and there is a fairly good chance that as many as half of them will say “Tall”. Perhaps more than any other sport, basketball has the association with body sh<\/span>ape that can put off a lot of young players. Some think because they’ll never grow to six feet tall that they can’t ever have a shot at being a pro basketball player. While it is true that basketball is dominated by taller men, it just isn’t the case that you need to be a six or seven-foot giant. It may help in terms of being able to dunk the ball, but not everyone on court is going to do that anyway.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps the most notable case of a basketball player who was shorter than the rest of his team was the for<\/span>mer Charlotte Hornets point guard Muggsy Bogues. Although the target of some gentle teasing for his height – a tiny 5′ 3, small even by the standards of non-sportsmen – Bogues was a player who had genuine success in the game, enjoying a career which spanned more than a decade, with his fast-passing, hustling game earning him the very genuine respect of a number of people who would not have believed him capable of what he achieved.<\/p>\n

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Height is an advantage in pro basketball – there is no pretending otherwise.<\/span> It gives you a better perspective on the basket, more of a chance to slam dunk the ball, and allows you to put up a formidable defensive barrier. However, growing to be seven feet tall will not guarantee you a successful basketball career, and being in the mid fives will not on its own prevent you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ask a hundred people what word comes to mind when they think about basketball, and there is a fairly good chance that as many as half of them will say “Tall”. Perhaps more than any other sport, basketball has the association with body shape that can put off a lot of young players. Some think because they’ll never grow to six feet tall that they can’t ever have a shot at being a pro basketball player. While…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,7,8],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-basketball","tag-basketball-games","tag-basketball-shoes","tag-wilson-basketballs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Basketball_Tips_and_Info_Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Basketball_Tips_and_Info_Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Basketball_Tips_and_Info_Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Basketball_Tips_and_Info_Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Basketball_Tips_and_Info_Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Basketball_Tips_and_Info_Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Basketball_Tips_and_Info_Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Basketball_Tips_and_Info_Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Basketball_Tips_and_Info_Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}