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  1. hypnosmurf

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    collage ball at Indiana State. You're thinking of Sue Bird, no relation.
     
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    Innate traits tend to regress to the mean over single generations. If you're taller than average, your child will most likely be shorter than you. If you are shorter than average, your child will most likely be taller than you. These are probabilities, so of course isn't true in every case. And the further from average you are, the higher the probability that your child will be shorter/taller than you.

    Same is true for intelligence or athletic ability, which is why children of NBA players are rarely/never as good as their famous parent. Plus, of course, there is the mother to consider. Her share of the bequeathed genes complicate it further.
     
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    So many things have to line up just perfectly for a great athlete to be great. Physical attributes, experiences that allow the talent to flourish, an innate drive that can't be easily explained... the list goes on and on.

    There simply haven't been (by definition) many "great" NBA players. While their offspring have a much better than average chance (based on genes) to be great (even accounting for reversion to the norm tendencies) the odds are still stacked against them and I don't find it THAT surprising that we haven't seen (m)any two-generation greats in the NBA.

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    as I'm sure you know by now, everyone has you on ignore... jk

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    I couldn't care less about hockey but the Hulls probably beg to differ.

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    Ralph Sampson lll plays at the University of Minnesota. He's not nearly as big as his dad - 6'11" 220 lbs.
     
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    I was talking to Voodoo Child a few years ago, and he told me he played against Jerry West's kid.

    Apparently he was terrible.
     
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    The players you mentioned are gifted - Wilt, Kareem, MJ, etc. Sure they pass along great genes, but to expect that a son will have the same exceptional gift is unrealistic I think.

    How many great musicans have musical prodigy children, or writers, etc? Very few.
     
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    I guess TV and show biz is the only place where this happens with better than average results. Would ya agree? Maybe Politics?
     
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    Well Shawn Kemps kids will have at least 17 shots at greatness....:drumroll:

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    That or the speed line at Krispy Kreme!
     
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    One of Kemp's kids is actually a fairly high profile basketball recruit right now.
     
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    One of them goes to Illinois, he is horrible. He was signed because of who his dad is.
     
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