Does early career achievement lead to earlier death? Assessment of the precocity-longevity effect in professional basketball players

• Main Authors: Nick Wattie (Author), Srdjan Lemez (Author), Chris I Ardern (Author), Michael Rotondi (Author), Joseph Baker (Author)
• פורמט: ספר
• יצא לאור: Frontiers Media S.A., 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Objectives: To examine the precocity-longevity (P-L) effect in North American professional basketball players who debuted between 1946 and 1979, and to determine whether playing position and decade of play influenced the relationship between age of career achievements and lifespan. Methods: 1852 pla...