<p>“the Jordans and James and Kobe’s were never gotten a chance to play”</p>
<p>Are you suggesting that white and Asian students with outstanding talents comparable to Michael Jordan’s aren’t making it into Harvard? Because if so, then as a middle-class white Harvard admittee, I must be better at psychology and East Asian studies than Michael Jordan was at basketball. I appreciate the compliment, but I gently suggest that perhaps this analogy doesn’t hold water.</p>
<p>If there were racial affirmative action in the NBA, it wouldn’t affect Michael and Kobe; it would affect the 12th man on the Raptors and Timberwolves. If rejectees imagine themselves as academic Michaels and Kobes, no wonder they’re unable to come to terms with the rejection! You’re not. No one on this thread is Michael or Kobe. We’re the 12th man on the Raptors, we’re not that special, and it is no loss to the NBA if they pick somebody else instead of us.</p>