Height doesn't always make right.(salaries of basketball centers)

Strange how Mother Nature has a way of working out her inequities, providing some measure of advantage within obvious disadvantages.

Take being 7 feet tall, for instance. Despite the hassles of low-clearance doorways, the impossibility of ever riding a Kentucky Derby winner and the inevitable repetition of bad jokes ("How's the weather up there?"), there are positives to being a 7-footer. A knack for screwing in light bulbs and rescuing kit tens from trees, for example. The ability to make NBA teams offer huge sums of money for little discernible reason, for another.

As much as we all like light bulbs and kittens, huge sums of NBA money is by far the ...