What is the hardest sport to make it to the big leagues

Probably hokkei.

Basketball if you're below 6'4".

>>75284098
Curling

Baseball

Soccer is the easiest because there are so many leagues and a worldwide scouting system

If you are a legit good player anywhere in the world, chances are you will make it to the top

Professional wrestling

>>75284098
Basketball by far

>>75284098
American football is the hardest because there's only one professional league.

Probably basketball, 30 teams, 13 players on each team, two rounds of a draft, often second rounders not even making the team.

Meanwhile there are so many tiers and leagues in the Amateur leagues (NCAA) most of whom will never even come close to making it

>>75285133
"""""sport"""""" How is it hard becoming succesfull at it anyway? it's all fixed, just memorize the lines the writers give you and work out

>>75285285
>>75284304
I saw a stat that like 1/12 people over 7 foot in the US play or have played NBA basketball where as like 1 in 30,000 people under 6'4 played

basketball because there's the least amount of pros and you need to be tall

>>75285316
It's like becoming a famous actor imo

>>75285285

You could play in a European league, okay it's not the NBA but you can still make millions of dollars a year.

>>75285258
but there's like 60 players in every team

>>75285361
or Turkey, or Israel, or Argentina... and make also millions of dollars

>>75285356
Yeah and it's harder to be a fighter and a champion than pretending to be a fighter and a champion

Better question is what age is it too late to "make it" in pro sports. For example, can a 27 year old pick up a basketball for the first time and dedicate all of his time to become skilled enough to at least make some shotty overseas team?

>>75285547
maybe if you are 3 meters tall

>>75285582
kek

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>>75285547
dont let ur dreams b dreams

is never 2 late

>>75285547
In fighting sports like boxing and MMA maybe. Definitely not something like soccer or basketball though.

for north americans hockey requires your parents to pay 150-200k for leagues and camps/practices

there's a reason 15% of the league is from toronto

>>75285547
I think 1 player in Ligue 1 didn't play football at a pro level until he was 20, until he was asked at the last minute to play goalkeeper in a non pro league as all the other were missing, and he somehow got himself playing as an offensive player in a pro team which went up in L1

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>>75285133
This

>>75285258
But there's only one country that plays it.

>>75285817
20 is still pretty young

>>75284098
Basketball. Unless you're some wiz like isaiah thomas, you cant get in if you're not at LEAST 6'0.

>>75286053
most pro players start around 3-5

>>75285547
Never in a team sport. Almost impossible.

Well, there was this guy called Koller, played for BVB, look him up.