It's the most wonderful time of year: Holy Week and March Madness.
As great as some of these players are, we will never see many of them again. The odds of D1 players making it to the NBA are not great.
Granted, the odds of making it to the NBA for the average person are abysmal — unless he happens to be a giant.
For a man in the US below 5'10" — that is, below the average adult male height — his odds of making it to the NBA are 1 in 3.8 million.
For a man over 7 feet tall, however, his odds of reaching the NBA are 1 in 7.1
One article called being 7 feet tall "the fastest way to get rich in America."
For those of us who aren't so tall, we may want to consider another line of work.
If we ever had dreams of basketball greatness, we likely gave them up years ago. Still, we may be hanging on to other delusions that we need to let go of.
There are many things we cannot change. The sooner we accept reality, the sooner we can move on to changing the things we can.
These figures were taken from Who Makes the NBA? by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz.