at Kobe being on top of this list. Fans are really embellishing his abilities (speaking a dozen languages, having a near high SAT score, etc).
I've always felt TMac to be one of the smartest players in the league. Just seeing how easily he is able to make decisions on the court throughout the years makes me feel that he is a talented athlete that exudes a level of spacial and situational intelligence beyond many. I wouldnt be suprised if he had a knack for academics. Also, years back I remember hearing about how one of the centers on the wizards at the time was very smart and eloquent too. I cant remember if it was Haywood or Etan Thomas.
Battier isn't really an NBA player. The NBA is just stuff to occupy him until he is eligible to run for world's top office, so I wouldn't count him. I'd say Nash seems like a pretty smart fella. I also think our very own Yao could have led a profession in something sophisticated had he not been born into basketball.
Kobe Bryant got a 1080 on the SAT back when it was scored out of 1600. That's far from perfect. Here's one source for that 1080 number.
That was the highest score among people Shaq knew? That's surprising to me. Does anyone know what the minimum SAT score is to qualify for NCAA competition?
Engineering is "undoubtedly" the most difficult field of study? I would have to disagree. I was an engineering major for a while in college (EE), and finished three years of the curriculum. I switched to physics because I found it more interesting, but physics was definitely harder.
Can someone confirm, but I thought David Robinson was pretty smart coming out of high school (I remember reading a while ago that he scored pretty high on the SAT) and did well at the Naval Academy....
Depends on what you consider as "hard". Workload or actual concepts? I just recently graduated with an EE (ECE at my school) degree and I see how much harder, say a Physics degree, would have been in terms of understanding concepts but any engineering by far have the most workload. I mean, doing senior design till 4 in the morning then having to studying for two midterms and doing 3 problem sets the next day while you have a 7pm lab scheduled is common place for engineering.
Chances are those aint legit.. I'd take Jeremy Lin, dude proly got 1500+ or something, maybe perfect.
In the end it's all subjective. I feel like my ECE curriculum was quite rigorous and that it was challenging because of the workload and some of the concepts. The projects were pretty rough because of how long they took...sometimes 60 hours+ I'm doing the whole mba thing now, and I'm not sure how that's gonna go. However, coming from a non-business background I'll definitely have to work harder than those that come from a business background.
