If you've ever watched NBA players do anything outside of basketball, they are the least athletic group in professional sports. Watch them try to throw a baseball, throw a punch, or swing a club or bat. It's laughable. Hell, half of them aren't all that good at basketball skills. Watching a big man try to dribble is comical. How many players have sub70% FT percentages?

The two groups who could transition the easiest would be NHL players and middle infield/OF types in baseball.

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Posted by Tiger1242

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Posted on 5/7/24 at 3:30 pm to SoFla Tideroller

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The two groups who could transition the easiest would be NHL players and middle infield/OF types in baseball.

This is a ridiculous take

Rivers is mostly right although there is a huge spectrum. There are a few NBA players that would transition well to football, mostly the shooting guards and Small Forwards. Then there are a lot of the long lanky awkward types that would get absolutely destroyed immediately

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Posted by lsufball19

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Posted on 5/7/24 at 3:46 pm to SoFla Tideroller

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If you've ever watched NBA players do anything outside of basketball, they are the least athletic group in professional sports. Watch them try to throw a baseball, throw a punch, or swing a club or bat. It's laughable. Hell, half of them aren't all that good at basketball skills

to be fair, football players are largely the same way. I took tennis as a PE class in college and had a bunch of football players in it. It was pitiful how unathletic they looked trying to do something other than football. Most were terrible at basketball too, they could just jump high.

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