According to Carleton Coon's The Races of Europe Balts (in particular Estonians and Latvians) have the longest wingspans of any European people (look at Porzingis). This is true of northeast Europeans generally (Andrei Kirilenko).
Ethnic Poles and other East Europeans have long been overrepresented in American basketball: https://twitter.com/crimkadid/status/992813142748090369 … George Mikan's parents were Croatian immigrants, as were Andrew Bogut's. Kevin McHale inherited his height from his Croatian mother.
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