I have a grotesque obsession with NBA basketball. As a result the only Slovenians I see are the heaping handful of guys who’ve made it to the League.
This tiny country of 2 million people has produced at least ten NBA caliber players in the past decade or so. This means one in every 22,195 males of NBA eligible age has played in a League that only has maybe 400 or so roster spots a year. By comparison a typical American has the same odds of being killed by a firearm as a Slovenian male of appropriate age does at playing basketball in the NBA.
I mean, there’s got to be a laboratory somewhere just outside of Ljubljana where scientists are brewing up the perfect basketball player.Further proof: These guys all look the same. Don’t believe me about the lab? Take a look…
Goran Dragic
Former Raptors Uros Slokar
Matjaž Smodiš, Boštjan Nachbar in Erazem Lorbek
Beno Udrih
Rasho Nesterovic
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