Why are 90% of young basketball plays skinny and malnourished

[North]

Despite living in a plentiful of food

80s-90s era basketball players were bigger boned and probably went to sleep hungry many nights in their peak growing years

 

[North]

Nfl players are getting weaker too

 

[Nostalgic]

Worry about what other mans body look like brehz.

 

[North]

Worry about what other mans body look like brehz.

Soon the nba going to be full of 5’10 skinny fats

 

[Nostalgic]

Soon the nba going to be full of 5’10 skinny fats

 

[DonB90]

As a former football breh I low key don't like them lil scrawny basketball cats, soft and arrogant if you ask me.

But to answer your question the game is way less physical now then its was in the 80s/90s so there's no need to be overly muscular is the most simple explanation

 

[28 Gramz]

The game requires less brute strength and more skill and shot making. No need for most of these kids to be pumping iron.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Most of them grew like 10-14 inches in height in a very very short period of time. In order to go from this:

To this

You need to eat A LOT, and have a disciplined and professional training process…and these kids don’t and shouldnt. Its the same reason college football rbs go from this

To this in 3 years

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

As a fan of a college bball team that recruits a lot of 1 and dones I’m personally tired of these real thin frail nikkas going into college to play against a 32 year old mf on his 8th year of eligibility (COVID year) who plays games in between prison bids

 

[Left.A1]

nikkas not wearing them triple XL jerseys no more and they all look skinny to me

 

[Dem313wayz]

Basketball players are physical freaks. These fools be 6'4 and up with long arms and limbs.

I see plenty brolic looking football players at the gym who are 5'8

 

[Paper Boi]

i could give you reasons why but you sounding like the breh who used to want to fukk eric bledsoe so

who cares keep it movin

 

[Womb Raider]

Basketball doesn’t require brute strength


I mean yeah you got AD, Gianni, LeBron and cats like that. But you need skill, finesse, quickness and lateral movement more. Not saying you don’t need strength cuz you absolutely do.

 

[Remote]

You understand that basketball is an aerobic activity.

These guys are active and burning calories. It isn’t easy to gain mass while practicing and training.

And not only that, having lots of muscle mass isn’t all that necessary to compete at a high level. Sure. It matters. It helps. But there are diminishing returns.

It makes more sense in sports where explosive movement is paramount. Like football.

The argument that basketball players of the past were more jacked is probably not true. Part of it is that people tend to remember the outliers. While you can’t find specifics I’m sure you can find average heights and weights and I doubt guys back then were much heavier (not that weight equals strength but what other metric would you find?)

 

[HandyWithTheSteel]

What the fukk are you taking about?

The average player today is bigger and stronger than they’ve ever been in history. And definitely way bigger than the ‘90s.

This was a superstar in the ‘90s.