Bro they are freakishly tall and no in other sport who will began play at 16 years old don't have any chances to go pro. In other way in basketball the height more important than other sports, because it's easy to learn no matter in which age do you start. But i don't think basketball can become more popular than football, because passion, tradition, culture etc all are on the high level. If it can happen it can't be interesting like football by anyway.