Is basketball now a sport for the rich? Half players have a pro athlete parent

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

Couldn't agree more. Good luck to your son on his journey

Same to you and yours breh.

 

[Womb Raider]

Yes. These ex athletes have access to resources that other kids could only dream of.

Like the age of the hoop dreams kid from the projects making it to the NBA is all but over.

Unless he’s really tall but I get what you saying. The days of Patrick Willis type athletes are mostly over.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

The NFL is probably the last remaining working class league. And with the way cats were treating Shedeur Sanders like MLK over the draft, that might be a thing of the past in another decade or two.

Football requires FREAK(y - according to AJ Brown ) athletes. No amount of money and privilege can turn Connor from the burbs into Micah Parsons unless he got the genetics.

That's why middle class/upper middle class and rich white boys often have siblings that make it, if one of them does...genetics (Bosa Bros, Mannings, Watt's, Hasselbecks etc)

 

[Stick Up Kid]

who cares?

do yall nikkas like the NBA? always complainin..
its always been a mix of both

you'll always get a mix of the Steph Curry's, and the D-Rose's

 

[Big Boss]

Half is a reach. Y'all don't realize these high and middle schoolers have personal trainers now. Them shyts not free. Don't get me started on the AAU and travel teams. Kids are traveling across the country every weekend playing in these big events. Air fare, hotels, food...this shyt not free

Facts

 

[Big Boss]

If you have talent with the genetics while young and being lower class/project kid, you're getting snatched up to goto the private prep schools regardless.

Word to Anthony Edwards

 

[Goat poster]

TIME is one aspect that gets overlooked by everyone.

Every weekend this spring ( the next 2 months) will be filled with me taking my son to Tournament games.

I'm headed to practice with him right now.

As parents we make so many sacrifices but I love my boy and he got his love for the game from me.

 

[NormanConnors]

If you have resources to put into something, you’re always going to be at a huge advantage over somebody who doesn’t have the resources. That’s not sports, that’s life.

And the children of pro players getting to the league likely has a lot more to do with genetics (the biggest factor in becoming a pro hooper in the first place) and them having the information on how to make it in the first place, which is the same reason its always easier for someone’s child to follow the parent into whatever vocation.

Bunch of cats in the hood with the genetics. I'd say its moreso opportunity/accessibility. I don't know man quite a few of these kids with former pro's as parents and etc get money put behind them damn near before they can dribble. I wont even say just the seeds of the pro's but financially well people in general, AAU now is just a big business between who has the bigger checks, but like you say that is life though in regard to advantage.

 

[NormanConnors]

Word to Anthony Edwards

That's been going on a long time, i.e Chris Webber but that blueprint has since been magnified and has killed a bunch of programs in the public school system

 

[Goat poster]

That's been going on a long time, i.e Chris Webber but that blueprint has since been magnified and has killed a bunch of programs in the public school system

I hate to say it but Public schools are basically done as far as being a factor at the highest levels of Youth/grassroots basketball.

The days of Stephons, AI's, and D roses getting scholarships from public schools to go D1 are over.

Kids with talent get shipped to private or prep schools or their toast

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

I hate to say it but Public schools are basically done as far as being a factor at the highest levels of Youth/grassroots basketball.

The days of Stephens, AI's, and D roses getting scholarships from public schools to go D1 or over.

Kids with talent get shipped to private or prep schools or their toast

It really it home for me with this process when a local kid named Jack Smiley left his high school, where he was the star and was in position to break many of the records Bryce Drew set and he willingly left to go to La Lumiere, basketball power house school in LaPorte, Indiana. He averaged 24-6-6 to go to a school to where he wouldn't be the man anymore. Here he is in his words.

Tapping the local talent: Valpo star Smiley transferring to La Lumiere for his senior basketball season

With a roster that crosses the country and often reaches around the world, La Lumiere doesn't typically have a local presence on its boys basketball national team.The Lakers stayed closer to home with their latest addition in Valparaiso's Jack Smiley, a 6-foot-2 guard who will trade his senior...

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"I needed to weigh the pros and cons. It took a lot of thought. It wasn't easy at all," Smiley said. "The main reason to go is knowing I can get so much better competing against some of the top guys in the country every day in practice and playing one of the best schedules in the country. It's more of the factor of getting ready for college. It's something I feel like I couldn't pass up, with development, to be the best basketball player I can be."

Public schools can't compete with this.

 

[ISO]

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Basketball has the lowest talent bar IMO because height filters out 90 to 95% of all men from the jump. Soccer by comparison is open to just about anyone, so raw ability is the deciding factor. The game would look a lot different if Maradona, Pele, Messi etc., couldn't play because they were under 5'9".

Well there’s a lot of short dudes that still hoop and are tuff around the world until they’re filtered out and the cream of the crop of the short guys do make the league.

NFL has the lowest talent bar mostly athleticism based sport at most positions not to say there is no skill involved.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Well there’s a lot of short dudes that still hoop and are tuff around the world until they’re filtered out and the cream of the crop of the short guys do make the league.

NFL has the lowest talent bar mostly athleticism based sport at most positions not to say there is no skill involved.

Basketball (to me) is kind of middling.

The height factor rules out too many skilled athletes. It's the only Big 4 sport that sorts by a trait you can't control.

You can be 5'8" or 6'8" in hockey, baseball, soccer, football, track etc.

Hoopers need less athleticism than football players and less skill than soccer players. They are impressive relative to their size, but not in absolute terms.

 

[IIVI]

I don my know where I read it but one of the biggest factors with a player improving once they make the league is having a parent that once played in the NBA.

That’s crazy. Rich getting richer.

 

[IIVI]

100% this.

Steph is considered small-ish at 6'2" and maybe 180 or 185 lbs. His height is 95th percentile.

People don't realize being 6'2" and taller is VERY rare. Most of the men in my fam are between 6'0" and 6'4" but I'm only 5'7." Hanging around them makes me think their height is normal....but in reality, they're outliers.

Basketball has the lowest talent bar IMO because height filters out 90 to 95% of all men from the jump. Soccer by comparison is open to just about anyone, so raw ability is the deciding factor. The game would look a lot different if Maradona, Pele, Messi etc., couldn't play because they were under 5'9".

Yeah, if you’re 6’7 or taller then instead of competing with 8 billion people, you’re only competing against only 2 million people.