Nba becoming a suburban sport?

[BigMoneyGrip]

Hamidou Diallo from LeFrak City

That ain’t the trenches lol

 

[SchoolboyC]

I think all the fake hardwood gangstas and the AND-1 generation had people fooled or at least in the late 90’s/early 00’s it seemed to be an influx of players from the inner city.

I don’t think it was ever majority tho and the best players in the 80’s and 90’s like Jordan, Pippen, Bird, Barkley, Hill, D-Rob all came from rural and suburban environments.

It’s still a good amount of guys from the inner city tho.

Guys still coming in from the hood but the difference is now as soon as they start flashing league potential, they get scooped up by these prep schools, private schools and academies. The days of the superstar prospect playing 4 years for the inner city public high school are damn near over.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

We are seeing the effects of black people moving out the city to the suburbs in real time

Suburbs is the new hood

 

[Rekkapryde]

These new n1ggaz are a bunch of beige half breeds growing up on juice boxes, 2 parent households and private coaching from ex nba players.

Lol at juice box nikkaz

But lmao at penalizing a cat for having both parents in the house . What in the fukk

 

[CantStop]

Lol at juice box nikkaz

But lmao at penalizing a cat for having both parents in the house . What in the fukk

bro mad at them for being born

last time I checked u can't choose who your parents are smh

 

[Big Boss]

Guys still coming in from the hood but the difference is now as soon as they start flashing league potential, they get scooped up by these prep schools, private schools and academies. The days of the superstar prospect playing 4 years for the inner city public high school are damn near over.

i see this in high school football too

 

[SchoolboyC]

true most of these NBA players got their kids playing basketball.

just look at lebron, shaq, wade, melo etc

Yep. I just saw the other day that Carlos Boozer’s twin sons are the top ranked freshmen in the nation and already got offered from Duke

 

[Rekkapryde]

Yep. I just saw the other day that Carlos Boozer’s twin sons are the top ranked freshmen in the nation and already got offered from Duke

Yup.

If anything, it's becoming a Nepotism league more than any other league esp nowadays. And the fact that there's not that many spots in the NBA Roster wise, it's getting harder.

Honestly a lotta of pro leagues are becoming like this.

We need to drive more cats to baseball and soccer. More "regular" sized adults have a chance there. Dunno if I can even say baseball due to price of entry.


Better pick up a trade brehs....

 

[Goat poster]

Lmao y'all describing Kobe to a T
Last I checked, Kobe was a suburban former nba player's son. Kobe's uncle played in the league as well . if you are well versed in Kobe's story, then u know Jelly Bean played a huge role in helping his son get prepared for the league with resources, connects, workouts... Also as a 17/18 year old entering the draft, Kobe spent half his life in Italy.

All I care about is if these dudes is nice. I dont give a fukk if they're from Mars, are their Zip code belongs to a plush neighborhood in the clouds...

This

For a website full of KOBE STANS this is a wierd thing to obsess over.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

Yep. I just saw the other day that Carlos Boozer’s twin sons are the top ranked freshmen in the nation and already got offered from Duke

 

[Rekkapryde]

Booz def the pappy

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

That ain’t the trenches lol

I’m not that familiar with the outer boroughs, especially that far out…but it is a housing project, no? I’m sure there’s a lot worse, more crime-ridden, more impoverished projects in NYC, but it’s still the projects.

 

[Mr. McDowell]

That's incredibly low when you really think about it. NBA might actually be the most elitist collective sports league when you take into account the actual number of people who get in.

No ifs about it. It's the hardest professional sports league to make. Guys like Dyson Daniels and Ben Simmons and Dante Exum, all have American fathers who ended up playing pro ball in Australia and somehow their kids were better than them. Oh yeah, they're all over 6'6. Sorry, NBA is just a hard league to make. Period.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

I’m not that familiar with the outer boroughs, especially that far out…but it is a housing project, no? I’m sure there’s a lot worse, more crime-ridden, more impoverished projects in NYC, but it’s still the projects.

It’s co-ops and a major commercial business area

 

[BarackStar]

Black people are always late to figure out when they’re being scammed. They’ve been gentrifying the league since the euro player boom. In the late 00s- early 10s they tried hyping them random euro white boys and even Jeremy lin trying to pivot away from hood nikkas but even though it increased the nba audience it wasn’t enough to change the league itself too much but then they discovered a bunch of lightskin/mixed suburbanites could help with that cause all the white kids they expanded the nba audience with prefers those guys (see any nba 2k online player a white boy created). They’ve groomed these players and have basically taken the league with them like a Trojan horse. The first sign was how bad Adam silver was trying to force the older nikkas out the league and replace them with worse players, it wasn’t just Melo they tried to force a premature end to all them nikkas not named LeBron. In 10 years this sport will be completely gentrified