While asking that question, I posited a number of easy explanations for why this might be so, and explained why none of them was sufficient to explain why this might be.
But a few people defaulted back to them, anyway. Asian-Americans are too short. They're just too busy studying and excelling at school to be concerned with basketball.
"How many sons of Jewish immigrants are playing basketball?" one commenter asked, presumably because Jews are also commonly held up as overachieving models of assimilation.
