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.

[Surething36]

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.

Basically. Almost all of the current top NBA players are foreign.

 

[21andover]

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!!

When you have sports, crime goes down. America used to have midnight basketball leagues that helped keep crime down, but all of a sudden there’s no funding for it.

They have funding for everything else, though, that benefits everyone but Black Americans.

 

[daboywonder2002]

Thank you for talking about this. One thing for sure is that there are a lot of great talented kid kids from public schools. Just because someone isn't a 3 or 4 star doesnt mean they can't ball. Don't let those rankings fool you. I remember trying to help get my stepson and my cousin a basketball scholarship. I would email and dm college coaches on twitter. For my cousin mostly HBCU coaches. And you know what they would say? Who else has offered? I mean damn why cant you look at the tape and stop worrying about who is the first. All i can say is if you're kids are young or you're thiking about having kids. Get your money up because either you gonna be paying for private school or aau ball. And honestly i see the same thing happening to more sports. Volleyball and track mostly