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[QUOTE="Kmba2Rmemba, post: 4601393, member: 8174"]
Just some thoughts:

Kyrie dropped 34 (on 12 of 15 shooting) while fasting during a play-in game last year.

Jaylen Brown dropped 41 while fasting two days ago against the Spurs.

Hakeem Olajuwon won NBA player of the month in February ‘95, during Ramadan. There were a bunch of afternoon games that required fasting nearly the entire game. His teammate Robert Horry said: “There are 48 minutes to a game and for you to play 42 minutes of that 48 and not even be able to take a sip of water, that is just phenomenal.”

Mo Salah and other EPL players are fasting until mid game this season. I think we can all agree that professional soccer has grueling cardio demands, maybe even significantly more than college basketball.

Point is: our bodies are remarkably capable and can perform at high levels (maybe even higher levels) during a focused period like fasting. I’ve been defending Ramadan quite a bit around here the past couple of weeks, but simple research into the topic would reveal plenty of material on athletes performing perfectly fine during fasting.
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