Yellow, white, black, who is more suitable for basketball?

In the field of professional basketball, there is no absolute conclusion that a certain race is "born more suitable". Basketball requires multiple elements such as explosiveness, height, coordination, and ball quotient. Different races have statistically different distributions in these dimensions, but individual differences are much greater than group differences. The success of modern basketball depends more on scientific training, tactical system and cultural environment. The following is a specific analysis:

1. Break the three major misunderstandings of "ethnic determinism"

Counter-example proves diversity

Yellow people: Yuta Watanabe (Japan) NBA career three-point shooting percentage is 40%+, Hachimura (Japan) 29 points in a single game in the 2023 playoffs

White people: Jokic (Serbia) 3 times MVP, Doncic (Slovenia) averages 33.9 points per game (2024)

Black people: Jordan and James represent top talents, but 60% of NBA players also eliminated within 5 years

Scientific consensus

FIBA ​​research: 75% of basketball performance is determined by training quality, tactical literacy and youth training system, and the genetic influence is concentrated on specific physiological indicators.

The universalization of hybrid advantages: Embiid (Cameroon/France) and Antetokounmpo (Nigeria/Greece) reflect global talent flow.

2. Statistical differences in physiological characteristics and positional tendency

1. West African players (often classified as "blacks")

Potential advantages:

High proportion of fast muscle fibers (average 70%+): 32% of players with vertical jumps exceeding 80cm (Europeans 18%)

Higher ratio of Achilles tendon length/calcareous bone height: improved bounce efficiency (9 of the top 10 blocks in NBA per game are West Africans)

Position tendon: Scoring guards, small forwards and other positions that require explosive power

2. Nordic players (often classified as "white")

Potential advantages:

The highest average height (184cm for Dutch men): 67% of the NBA active players above 215cm

The skeletal cross-section: strong confrontation stability (71% success rate of Jokic's basket)

Potential advantages:

Tortoise/lower limb ratio coordination: good chassis stability (Yuki Kawamura averages only 1.7 turnovers per game)

Aerobic endurance gene (ACE Type II): High running efficiency in the whole game (CBA players' shooting rate dropped by only 3.3% in the fourth quarter)

Position tendency: point guard, outside shooter

3. The key to success of a basketball power: acquired system

Typical cases:

Chinese men's basketball team: average height 205cm (third in the world), but the free throw shooting rate in the 2023 World Cup 61% (1st to the bottom) - technical shortcomings are much greater than physical problems

Latvia (population 19 00,000): No. 5 in the 2023 World Cup, relying on national basketball system + three-point tactics (average shooting percentage of 39%)

4. The evolutionary trend of modern basketball: downplaying the racial boundaries

position blurring

Jokic (213cm white center) averaged 9.8 assists per game, Curry (191cm yellow bounce) historical three-pointer

comprehensive technical demand

Wenban Yama (French mixed race) also needed:

221cm height (center) + Guard-level sports shooting (32% three-point shooting percentage)

Technology empowers

Japan uses AI to analyze players' micro-movements to improve shooting stability, and China Cui Yongxi uses biomechanics to transform his jumping posture

5. Conclusion: Basketball belongs to all those who dare to break through the limit

Reject physiological fatalism:

Yohui Kawamura (172cm Japanese) defeated Finland 25 points in a single game

Hayes (198cm white center) once maintained the record for the NBA touch (3.81 meters)

Core competitiveness ranking:

Youth training system (such as European club echelon)＞Basketball culture (such as American AAU)＞Tactical innovation (such as Spanish pick-and-roll system)＞>Ethnic physique

The enlightenment to China:

Stop blaming "poor physical fitness of yellow people", Xinjiang player Abdusalam is not inferior to European and American forwards in the confrontation

Solve the shortage of youth training population (only 3,000 registered U15 players), low level of grassroots coaches (70% without professional certification), and small number of games (the average annual number of youth players is less than 30 games) The gap in the basketball court is not the genes, but the sweat on the training ground and the wisdom of system construction. When Japan can train Yasui, the NBA starter, and when Jokic uses technology to subvert the definition of center, the so-called "ethnic ceiling" has long been proven to be an excuse for lazy people. True limitations have never existed only in the cage of cognition.