7/1: Short people's basketball

I'm here to document a trend... a trend that we can only encourage. Short people's basketball.

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I was relatively short when I was a kid. This meant that I could not play basketball.

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Not really. But I love seeing these pictures of exhibition short people's teams. There's just something appealing about it. I'm guessing they're worth the download time.

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Yeah, it's comical because they're tiny, but they also seem to be really into it, and it's charity money, it's all good.

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Hey, it's important to document trends like these. I do wish there were some better images, but these are the best four from the sites I found. Anyway, my main complaint about the sport of basketball is that, in order to play at the pro level, you pretty much have to be a mutant. Compare the pros to "regular" people, and except for Iverson and Spud Webb and a small handful of really awesome shorter guys, they all look like mutants. Mutants of height. So to go the other way with it - to go short with it - is some kind of justice.

It's all nice and cute now, but I wonder how long it will be before "The Man Show" gets ahold of this knowledge. Anyone who watches knows what I mean.

~Mike

Question - Do they lower the basket??

Or do the short folk have to try harder?