Will playing basketball help you grow taller?

From generation to generation, people have believed that if you play basketball you’ll grow taller, but if you play football you won’t. Is that really true?

According to a study conducted in 2015, the average height of an NBA basketball player is 200cm while that of an English Premier League football player is only 182cm. But don’t worry! As sports physiologists point out, our genes pre-determine how tall we grow.

If that's true, do you still have to play basketball in order to grow taller? Watch the video below to hear what Doctor Raymond So from Hong Kong Sports Institute has to say.