why cant nba players jump higher?

[TheCorporation]

Why are you comparing NFL players to NBA players? They're average heights are totally different. Shorter people have higher vertical jumps.

Bingo

that's why 7-footers don't have amazing verticals (partly because they don't need to as their closer to the rim).

Take a 6'8 football player and tell me if he has the same vert as LeBron. Or can get up as high as him (obviously including arm length because that's part of getting up and dunking). I'll wait.

[Marchesk]

Cousins only has a 27 inch vertical. Maybe needs some of these:



Kings are going as far as Cousins can jump.

[Marchesk]

Why not a 72 inch vertical?

Scientists haven't spliced tiger genes into human DNA yet.

[oarabbus]

Yeah why don't we have 50 foot verticals by now? aka OP is mentally retarded

[Collie]

There's something... starts with a "G".. I remember it had something to do with apples.

[ArbitraryWater]

Disagree with the Shaq/Curry analogy.

If all Shaq did was practice shooting like Curry, sooner or later, given enough time, he could reach his percentages, etc.

Shooters aren't born shooters. Curry had to perfect his shot and master it. It took a ton of practice. I remember watching a video where it said Curry missed countless number of shots before being able to shoot like he is capable of now. He pretty much had to disassemble his shot and rebuild it into what it is today.

Alot of fail in here...didnt expect this Kindergarten thinking from you.

[2swift4u]

NBA players don't have higher verticals because:

1) it's more important for them to work on their basketball skills than on jumping. If all they did the whole day would be jump training then some would most likely jump higher.

2) there's a limit. Javier Sotomayor's world record for high jumping has been unbroken for 22 years. Despite better training methods and more knowledge these days, high jumpers have not been abel to jump higher than Sotomayor.

3) A few professional dunkers (who work on their jumping abilities) have reached verticals of about 50 inches +/- a few inches... So that seems to be about the limit. And there's NBA player that have verticals in the high 40s I believe, so there's not that much room for improvement anyway. Most of them probably jumped higher in college too because in the NBA players are supposed to add mass, which obviously doesn't help your vertical.

[Knicksfever2010]

Yeah why don't we have 50 foot verticals by now? aka OP is mentally retarded

Hey, I resemble that remark