Abstract
Abstract The average weight and height of National Basketball League (NBA) players is decreasing year by year (Brady, Benedict. 2017. Maybe we should call it skinny-ball: Weight vs. height in the NBA. Harvard Sports Analysis Collective. http://harvardsportsanalysis.org/2017/11/maybe-we-should-call-it-skinnyball-weight-vs-height-in-the-nba/ (accessed 30 September 2021); Curcic, Dimitrije. 2021. 70 years of height evolution in the NBA [4,504 players analyzed]. RunRepeat. https://runrepeat.com/height-evolution-in-the-nba (accessed 30 September 2021)). The trend in basketball is to privilege the tallest and strongest. If so, then to what does the body modification of NBA players respond? Will these changes reformulate the corporeity of what is understood as an NBA player? This text seeks, from the postulates of Jacques Fontanille (2008 [2004]. Soma y sema: Figuras semióticas del cuerpo [Soma and sema: Semiotic figures of the body]. Peru: Fondo Editorial Universitario de Lima) and José Finol (2015. The corposphere: Anthropo-semiotics of the cartographies of the body [La corposfera: antropo-semiótica de las cartografías del cuerpo]. Ecuador: CIESPAL), to point out that the process of body modification arose both from the introduction of a new rule (three-point shot) and the recognition to new corporealities. From data regarding players’ corporeality, shooting tendency and a body modification scheme, a new corporeality of the NBA player is proposed, one that is no longer determined entirely by height.
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