Has anyone noticed N.B.A. players don’t come from the hood anymore? Anyone ever noticed that they all come from hood to decent areas now.

[Jasmine Ross]

It’s nice seeing the sport change with representation from two parent homes and not the depressing struggle story over and over again.

Yes but at the same time those kids in single parent homes didn’t choose that life and still deserve a chance to make it

 

[BigMikeHere]

Inner city and rural lads just don't have the financial resources and amenities of other communities as noted above but many players don't have the guidance and support they need, most don't make it through college, which is important in gaining experience and building up one physique and increasing endurance with the hidden cache of helping one mature in the spot light before setting off on an even bigger stage.

 

[NBAFan]

League is full of biracial players that made it through because of their mom being white and using her privilege

I can't think of any current biracial NBA players that have white fathers and black mothers.

 

[Piccadilly05]

Kids with talent get moved out the hood, the local booster clubs will usually fund the whole family moving out the hood just so the super star players can bring their high school team championships. Theyve been doing that since I was in school and im in my 30s now…

You're right. I heard about this when I was growing up as well, and I think the practice even precedes our generation. The thing I don't get is what do these school districts win? Like, what is the payoff for having a championship team? Especially if it's a public school, but even if it's a private one. I get that it must be fun to brag about having a championship team, but I can't for the life of me believe that it's worth putting all of that kind of money into ensuring eligibility for a middle schooler or high schooler. I just don't get it. School is supposed to be for academics. Bragging about the prowess of one's athletic teams seems rather superficial.

 

[advancedsion]

I can't think of any current biracial NBA players that have white fathers and black mothers.

And you won't because it's all a black penis fetish

 

[21andover]

Foreign players are taking all the spots from American Black NBA players.

Baseball is the prototype for what they want to do to “Black American” sports.

 

[Crssak12]

Uh isn’t that a good thing…. Who actually wants to be from the hood? I wish more black/biracial kids said that they had the opportunity to grow up in a middle to high class neighborhoods and then eventually become millionaires.

 

[Piccadilly05]

So what most of you are saying is that when the playing field was a bit more level, poor Black kids from the hood wiped the floor with their more affluent and oftentimes white counterparts. White folks wanted that glory, fame, and paycheck (I'm guessing) so they began to funnel extra resources into their already advantaged children's athletic instruction. These same funds however could have been used to improve the failing public schools a lot of their children's competitors came from. Interesting. I will be using this example in the future.

 

[StellarMoon]

Probably because the kids in the hood are carjacking everyone and choosing to not participating in productive, recreational activities

 

[Much2much41]

These comments explain why the league is boring and there aren’t very many elite players.

 

[NBAFan]

Foreign players are taking all the spots from American Black NBA players.

Look at the 2022-2023 All-NBA First Team
Luka Doncic: born in Slovenia
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: born in Canada, mother from Antigua and Barbuda, no info online of father heritage
Jayson Tatum: born in St. Louis, father African-American, mother appears to be biracial but no info online to confirm that
Giannis Antetokounmpo: born in Greece, parents from Nigeria
Joel Embiid: born in Cameroon

I never thought I'd see an All-NBA First Team where four of five were not American.

 

[21andover]

Probably because the kids in the hood are carjacking everyone and choosing to not participating in productive, recreational activities

Please. The jig is up.

 

[21andover]

.

 

[StellarMoon]

Please. The gig is up.

What’s the gig?

 

[Livingit88]

Everything has become business and money at the expense of everything and everyone.

 

[DesiChick]

Everything has become business and money at the expense of everything and everyone.

A tale as old as time. SMDH.

 

[Livingit88]

A tale as old as time. SMDH.

Yep, with the ceiling getting higher of what people consider rich- from millionaire, to multi-millionaire and now billionaire- the quality of things is getting lower and short cuts are being taken to reach that goal.

It's all about getting to billionaire status the fastest now, so who wants to bother with athletes from the hood who might need more babysitting and effort than kids from the suburbs with that in-built support system.

 

[Good and plenty]

I can't think of any current biracial NBA players that have white fathers and black mothers.

I can.
Forget the player but father is white and momma black

 

[Morticia A]

Probably because the kids in the hood are carjacking everyone and choosing to not participating in productive, recreational activities

Liiiiisten. As soon as I read this title, these were my exact thoughts too. I see more young black men out here committing crimes then I see them on someone's court. Even the ones who are really good and destined for greatness. I went to school with this boy and look how he turned out.

Former Oregon WR Jalen Hall facing life in prison

An unfortunate turn of events for once-prized recruit Jalen Hall.

247sports.com

I actually still know his IG and he's now a typical hood n, covered in tattoos and throwing up gang signs when he could be sitting in a million dollar mansion surrounding by IG hoes or something.

 

[CandyElaine]

I can't think of any current biracial NBA players that have white fathers and black mothers.

I know of one: Paolo Banchero with Orlando Magic. I only know about him because he was on The Knuckleheads podcast and talked about his mom being in the WNBA and her being the one to teach him how to play. I googled him to see who his mom is Black mom, white dad.

 

[Yakini]

It's a nepotism sport now.

 

[StellarMoon]

Liiiiisten. As soon as I read this title, these were my exact thoughts too. I see more young black men out here committing crimes then I see them on someone's court. Even the ones who are really good and destined for greatness. I went to school with this boy and look how he turned out.

Former Oregon WR Jalen Hall facing life in prison

An unfortunate turn of events for once-prized recruit Jalen Hall.

247sports.com

I actually still know his IG and he's now a typical hood n, covered in tattoos and throwing up gang signs when he could be sitting in a million dollar mansion surrounding by IG hoes or something.

See, what a shame!! I’m getting groaned to death but it is true and weighing heavy on my mind bc I’m writing my research paper on juvenile crime and the data/statistics show these crimes are primarily being committed by young black males ( who predominately live in the hood).

 

[Sincerelysandy]

Probably because the kids in the hood are carjacking everyone and choosing to not participating in productive, recreational activities

Lmaooo exactly the kids in the hood don’t want to be NBA players anymore and rather carjack while not participating in productive activities so idk why people are blaming the NBA for scouting for people that want to participate and come from a good middle class family .

 

[PettyLesbian]

Dont know why the olympics allowed professional players to play in amateur leagues…but I think this was the start of the transition.


Most basketball players will be coming from europe and china…

 

[Hexa]

Good. That Shawn Kemp stuff of fathering entire nations was embarrassing.

 

[tinyboots]

makes sense they’re all spawns of rich retired NBA players procreating with yt women. the NBA will be fully biracial soon… it’s already happening.

 

[Morticia A]

See, what a shame!! I’m getting groaned to death but it is true and weighing heavy on my mind bc I’m writing my research paper on juvenile crime and the data/statistics show these crimes are primarily being committed by young black males ( who predominately live in the hood).

Girl don't worry about these fonts. They'll be in one thread saying black men have high crime rates but are in this one pretending to not understand why professional athletes are not coming from the hood anymore? Make it make sense. You can't be in jail and playing football at the same time lmfao. Good luck on your paper!!

 

[TruthSpoken]

They do but they don't have free personal coaches.

Cause the “kings” chose to criticize black women instead of passing on their skills and knowledge to the youth.

 

[WorkItOut]

Youth athletics aren’t cheap anymore. You have to be at least middle class to comfortably afford it. My little cousin plays youth football. Not only is there a cost to play and for the uniform/equipment, but they are taking out of city trips almost every weekend.

 

[Zilla]

People are being priced out of sports, even basketball. Back 25 years ago, you could go to a public high school, maybe get sponsored for a random AAU team at 15/16 years old, and get attention enough for a d1 scholarship and succeed from there. The idea of personal trainers for children wasn't even thought of.

Nowadays if you're not on the AAU circuit by 10 years old and playing year round in leagues, with personal trainers, in expensive prep schools, the chances of making it are almost none. This requires not only extreme financial privilege for the family, but the emotional burden as well since the family is basically attached to the schedule of having to be in different cities all the time on a year round basis, having to move to go to different schools, etc. Even bigger high schools are starting to travel like NBA teams during the season so their teams can play the best in the country. And you have 15-16 year olds transferring schools, even across states, multiple times to get on better teams and more attention. It's insane.

This doesn't even mention the NBA moving away towards most American youth and investing more in international leagues and the NBA as a global market.

Literally perfectly said.

 

[Downbydlake]

As a man who was a passionate basketball fan and player growing up, who watched intimately, let me give the women some context that they might be missing

I've literally said this since I was a kid in 2005 that the NBA was clearly white washing the sport, and it was painfully obvious to me as a child but grown men even are only starting to just notice (extremely naive).

When the Malice in the Palace happened in 04 when big scary hood black ass Ben Wallace got in a public on court brawl with big scary hood black ass Ron Artest, and the fight spilled into the stands where all the black players where in the stands knocking out white fans for throwing beer at them... the NBA was in major fear about the survival of their sport, remember this was the post Jordan era, right after Kobe's rape case, and right after the peak of the gangsta rap era where black players were all still in 90s gangsta fashion and culture, which actually made the sport more hyper competitive.

This image scared the Midwestern white NFL fan who already didn't like the Allen Iverson-era of black players who aren't "classy" like the MJ-Magic-Bird types. A lot of white fans left the NBA after that era and the NBA stays trying to compete with the NFL for eyes. That brawl in Detroit was blasted all over all news outlets for like 6 months and the average middle America white person would assume that's all the NBA is.

David Stern (white Jew NBA commissioner) immediately instituted a dress code the next season that required players to wear suits and collar shirts, even though players today are allowed to dress like gay Euros with their thighs showing or their nipples exposed. Also, the NBA started to push the narrative from an institutional level that I clocked immediately, where they would tell us to our face since '05, that "we're moving to a European style of play". That should've rang bells in black ppls minds immediately but at the time literally ppl told me I was being a crazy hotep kid at the time lol. But what is the European style of play if you actually know basketball?... it's literally just a way to say, more 3pt shooting, less defense, less physicality and contact allowed, and more of an emphasis on skill instead of athleticism.

I know a lot of women don't study basketball, as they don't need to, but let me help explain what means in regards to what you're seeing today. Growing up we all knew white boys were 3pt specialists. I remember growing up we even joked "why did they add a 3pt line to the NBA? To give white boys a chance to play". Because black players, who were more athletic, although they could shoot, the NBA emphasized a more gladiator style league where you couldn't even get a shot off against the defense unless you were athletic enough. But in today's league, where contact and physicality is outright outlawed... it creates a league where anyone with skill and who has the designated "right IQ" can be the main quarterback of a basketball team making all the decisions because since anyone can get a shot off against defense in today's NBA, they designate the star of the team as the guy who they trust with the most "skills" and "IQ" to where now the "athletes" (hood blacks) are becoming more considered to be role players (tough screen setters, shot blockers, defensive specialists, role players basically) for the "high IQ skilled players" (whites, euros, and biracials) who get to be the team focus and face of the organization.

When you take away physicality and make the game less athletic, which todays NBA undoubtedly is... you create a dynamic where you shift the hood black folks out the league since they dont fit in as much with the "European style of play".

Excellent post! Thank you for taking the time to break this down with details for us!!! You took me back for sure when all those things happen in early to mid 00s.

This also goes to show how those light demons will do whatever they can to hold on to their “power”.

 

[KKND04232016]

And this is exactly why the talent in the league today couldn't hold a candle to the talent during like the late 80's and 90's.

League is full of biracial players that made it through because of their mom being white and using her privilege

And THIS was the GOAL but black men was too busy thinking black women just mad because I'm with blah blah blah.. women ALWAYS smarter than men when it comes to these things. Now the league is biracial ultimately it will go back to its original skin tone..and that's how you stay in power. .

 

[AfroAmerAus]

All about lineage, players ancestry, players education, and players acquaintances.

As someone has mentioned that is why there is no decent music, movies, books

It was the working class that were the artiists. You have to experience both highs and lows.

 

[KKND04232016]

All about lineage, players ancestry, players education, and players acquaintances.

As someone has mentioned that is why there is no decent music, movies, books

It was the working class that were the artiists. You have to experience both highs and lows.

NBA/Music/Hollywood industry....are industry that really put black people back into a form of slavery because.. think about it..when these industries started making serious money it convinced black people to not put it back in the community...Malcolm X warned against this...

Starting with men like Harry Belafonte stating 'noting a black woman can do for me". This is some of the issue.. and believe me you.. have the right to love who you want, but when you exclude your shared race it becomes strategic and not about love.

My point is a lot of things black people build ultimately gets taken from us because we are oppressed people that too often turn around and oppress ourselves . . I don't think I've EVER heard a non-black woman wonder if her shared race was interested in them! Just think about how crazy that is!!!

So basically....black people didn't create basketball but it was perfected by black men... black men made it the exciting game it once was...
But white men convinced them to put that money right back into others community's.. they are now working on football. It's not quite there yet...

It's a form of slavery. Just like the slave owners made the south very rich off the backs of black people...

 

[Justbeingnosy]

As a man who was a passionate basketball fan and player growing up, who watched intimately, let me give the women some context that they might be missing

I've literally said this since I was a kid in 2005 that the NBA was clearly white washing the sport, and it was painfully obvious to me as a child but grown men even are only starting to just notice (extremely naive).

When the Malice in the Palace happened in 04 when big scary hood black ass Ben Wallace got in a public on court brawl with big scary hood black ass Ron Artest, and the fight spilled into the stands where all the black players where in the stands knocking out white fans for throwing beer at them... the NBA was in major fear about the survival of their sport, remember this was the post Jordan era, right after Kobe's rape case, and right after the peak of the gangsta rap era where black players were all still in 90s gangsta fashion and culture, which actually made the sport more hyper competitive.

This image scared the Midwestern white NFL fan who already didn't like the Allen Iverson-era of black players who aren't "classy" like the MJ-Magic-Bird types. A lot of white fans left the NBA after that era and the NBA stays trying to compete with the NFL for eyes. That brawl in Detroit was blasted all over all news outlets for like 6 months and the average middle America white person would assume that's all the NBA is.

David Stern (white Jew NBA commissioner) immediately instituted a dress code the next season that required players to wear suits and collar shirts, even though players today are allowed to dress like gay Euros with their thighs showing or their nipples exposed. Also, the NBA started to push the narrative from an institutional level that I clocked immediately, where they would tell us to our face since '05, that "we're moving to a European style of play". That should've rang bells in black ppls minds immediately but at the time literally ppl told me I was being a crazy hotep kid at the time lol. But what is the European style of play if you actually know basketball?... it's literally just a way to say, more 3pt shooting, less defense, less physicality and contact allowed, and more of an emphasis on skill instead of athleticism.

I know a lot of women don't study basketball, as they don't need to, but let me help explain what means in regards to what you're seeing today. Growing up we all knew white boys were 3pt specialists. I remember growing up we even joked "why did they add a 3pt line to the NBA? To give white boys a chance to play". Because black players, who were more athletic, although they could shoot, the NBA emphasized a more gladiator style league where you couldn't even get a shot off against the defense unless you were athletic enough. But in today's league, where contact and physicality is outright outlawed... it creates a league where anyone with skill and who has the designated "right IQ" can be the main quarterback of a basketball team making all the decisions because since anyone can get a shot off against defense in today's NBA, they designate the star of the team as the guy who they trust with the most "skills" and "IQ" to where now the "athletes" (hood blacks) are becoming more considered to be role players (tough screen setters, shot blockers, defensive specialists, role players basically) for the "high IQ skilled players" (whites, euros, and biracials) who get to be the team focus and face of the organization.

When you take away physicality and make the game less athletic, which todays NBA undoubtedly is... you create a dynamic where you shift the hood black folks out the league since they dont fit in as much with the "European style of play".

Man, cut the sh!t with talking down to and generalizing all women just because a few fonts made a couple of points who were probably not old enough to know. You will get your draws in a bunch the minute I begin hurling stereotypes at you. As if only men watch basketball. tuh huh

I remember the brawl all to well because I watched that game LIVE and what all came as a result of it. There was much commentary given by men AND women. We are seeing a repeat of it again with tennis being "replaced" with pickleball, golf tournaments and soccer leagues because international markets are wanting "ownership" in some of these U.S. institutions. Which are very sus af!!!!!

 

[Justbeingnosy]

Look at the 2022-2023 All-NBA First Team
Luka Doncic: born in Slovenia
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: born in Canada, mother from Antigua and Barbuda, no info online of father heritage
Jayson Tatum: born in St. Louis, father African-American, mother appears to be biracial but no info online to confirm that
Giannis Antetokounmpo: born in Greece, parents from Nigeria
Joel Embiid: born in Cameroon

I never thought I'd see an All-NBA First Team where four of five were not American.

And they will never be them and it showed!!!!!!

 

[enhanced]

It’s nice seeing the sport change with representation from two parent homes and not the depressing struggle story over and over again.

Poverty and struggle is over represented in black culture. Not sure why people go so hard to defend it.

 

[Colts Fan]

Good. That Shawn Kemp stuff of fathering entire nations was embarrassing.

Yet not any of those kids ended up a professional athlete as far as I know. That kind of surprises me.

 

[Juny.B.Jones]

It’s called growth. Basketball and football are middle class sports today. You have all the camps and trainers that have entered the chat and exploited the market of thirsty parents wanting their kids to excel.

Yea I heard this too.
Sadly it’s no longer a pipeline for youth. Same with music.

 

[GordoMcfats]

And this is exactly why the talent in the league today couldn't hold a candle to the talent during like the late 80's and 90's.

League is full of biracial players that made it through because of their mom being white and using her privilege

Boom! There we go