There is Brain Type, and there is brain health. One is as crucial as the other when it comes to sports (and life), so when we find an athlete who has an optimal, innate brain design for the job, but his or her neurons are questionable, we hesitate, to say the very least.
A young man by the name of Delonte West came into the league over a decade ago, but even before he did, Jon Niednagel knew his Brain Type (at the behest of the NBA team he consulted). Delonte was a Michael Jordan. That is, while he didn’t approach MJ’s height, athleticism, skill, discipline, or talent, he was a #6 BEIR, and he had upside. He had potential especially if developed properly, and, certain cognitive aspects could be enhanced. Mr. West also had an atypical upbringing which would be benefited by regular encouragement and counsel from his closest NBA comrades and mentors. (In 2015 he talked with a reporter “about a childhood littered with mental health issues, including stints in children’s hospitals after he swallowed pills and began cutting himself.”)