For many years people have had the notion that black people play basketball, white people play golf, and people from Boston and Minnesota play hockey. This stereotypes have been backed up by some pretty heavy statistics. But if people would use their eye's they would see what I see in that, almost every NBA player is over 6'6, every golf player has been practicing since the age of 5, and Minnesota is right next to Canada. People play these sports because it is regional or because they were gifted with these height, or because their parents taught them. I believe that these myths, though backed up by many stats, can be proved false. In hockey there are people from the tropics who become stars in the NHL, just how in the NBA there are people like Steve Nash who are from Canada and just have a great basketball intuition. In Golf people like John Daly can hit the ball a mile and he even admits he doesn't put as much time into it as he should. Everywhere there is a stat to prove a point there are other stats to disprove that point. In my opinion people need to keep an open mind about these topics because there are always exceptions to every stat.
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Walt, valid arguments though these players you are referring to make up a small majority of the sport. Steve Nash is truly a one of a kind player. There aren't an abundance of Steve Nash like Canadians in the league. Speaking of Canadians, you also mentioned Hockey in your post. These days, there are very few players playing college Hockey or in the NHL who aren't from hockey hot spots. I would like to see some examples of these hockey players. Look at the NHL's best: Crosby-Canada, Ovech-Russia, Malkin- Russia, Kane-Buffalo, Zetterberg-Sweeden, even JRO was from Boston. A ballsy post, though you can't argue with the facts. Certain athletes can be linked back to geographic areas. Regardless, love the Boston and Minnesota reference.
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