Nba becoming a suburban sport?

[hood b. goode]

This aint 2002. Aint nobody going to sit around and let you stay in the trenches. Any kid who shows a shred of promise by 15:
- Can go to Overtime Elite ($120k/ yr salary, room & board)
- Can go to big academies like Oak Hill and IMG
- Might get a G league Ignite offer
- Can get NIL money & go D1
- Will be known w/ 100k+ IG followers in high school

You dont even have to wait for the NBA draft to get a payday now.

The days of the anonymous HS star turning into an allstar are over. Once i n a blue moon youlll have a Dame Lillard (little known 4 year college SR) who gets to the nba without much hype

but outside of that, with all the resources devoted to finding talent, no one slips through the cracks anymore

If you have any potential a bunch of handlers are getting you out the hood to boarding/ private school IMMEDIATELY. Agents are ready to front you some $$. Highlights makers are ready to create content for your IG. Zion Williamson was a viral dunker by age 16

It is what it is

 

[The War Report]

I mean baseball is the same way.

 

[ISO]

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

I would be interested in seeing a study of bias in amateur basketball scouting

 

[IIVI]

This aint 2002. Aint nobody going to sit around and let you stay in the trenches. Any kid who shows a shred of promise by 15:
- Can go to Overtime Elite ($120k/ yr salary, room & board)
- Can go to big academies like Oak Hill and IMG
- Might get a G league Ignite offer
- Can get NIL money & go D1
- Will be known w/ 100k+ IG followers in high school

You dont even have to wait for the NBA draft to get a payday now.

The days of the anonymous HS star turning into an allstar are over. Once i n a blue moon youlll have a Dame Lillard (little known 4 year college SR) who gets to the nba without much hype

but outside of that, with all the resources devoted to finding talent, no one slips through the cracks anymore

If you have any potential a bunch of handlers are getting you out the hood to boarding/ private school IMMEDIATELY. Agents are ready to front you some $$. Highlights makers are ready to create content for your IG. Zion Williamson was a viral dunker by age 16

It is what it is

I agree for the most part. However, I think what people are saying is that by even before these kids hit high school, some parents would have spent tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars them on coaching as kids so that when they get to high school and start getting scouted, they're already going to be shining prospects.

If you look around online some folks are charging about $100/30 min to train kids.
2 sessions is an hour of training and that's $200/week for 52 weeks which is already more than $10k/year.
Lets say you want that from age 6-10 for your kid = $50k when it comes to x2 weekly sessions on basketball lessons.

Now some parents would shell out x5/week. Poorer folks can't afford to spend $100k on their kids from age 6-10 on only basketball. While that number is probably inflated, even $10k per year is a number folks can't afford to shell out on basketball training.

And by change I mean dollars.

Hundreds, noooo, thousands, of American dollars.

Had you told me when I signed my adorable toddler up for soccer 15 years ago that I would eventually invest upwards of $50,000 in sports, not including gas, car mileage, food, and time (not just for him, for all three of them) before he even graduated from high school, I can’t say I would’ve gone ahead and bought those baby cleats after all.

And that’s not to say I regret it. It’s just to say, had I known about the real cost of youth sports, I probably wouldn’t have been able to see past it to appreciate the benefits.

Cost of Youth Sports: How Much Parents Actually Spend on Activities for Kids

dudemom.com

 

[315]

This how it’s going down in that league huh?

 

[UncleTomFord15]

nikkas really need to stop thinking being poor and violent is what it means to be "really" black

 

[RhodyRum]

I already did the college degree + corporate job thing. It’s overrated

And going by the numbers, that'll more than likely be your kid's path in life as well vs being a pro athlete, so make sure he's prepared for that life as well.

And please don't live / relive your dreams through your kid. That's how you inevitably turn a kid off of sports.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

And going by the numbers, that'll more than likely be your kid's path in life as well vs being a pro athlete, so make sure he's prepared for that life as well.

And please don't live / relive your dreams through your kid. That's how you inevitably turn a kid off of sports.

Of course. The good thing is my kid will have options. I not gonna raise a kid with unrealistic hoop dreams

 

[Mull]

Not really.


Some of the best players in NBA history are not from the trenches

Not going to fully deny that but… LeBron is from the hood, KD is from the hood, Kawhi is from the hood, Giannis comes from humble beginnings. Raw talent is often going to come from dire situations sometimes

 

[sportscribe]

I was thinking about this recently.

Just look at this; the last 7 NBA MVP selections were all non-Americans. Where is the next US MVP-caliber player coming from? Shai, Jokic, Doncic and Wemby will probably share this accolade for at least the next 4 or 5 years. Maybe Tatum perhaps, but will he ever reach his full potential returning from an achilles injury? Maybe Anthony Edwards if he can take the next leap.

The game has definitely pivoted away fully from players who grew up in low income neighborhoods. I think that's why Draymond is punking these guys and they are shook of him. He knows a lot of the players coming up are really not like that. Imagine him trying this mess against a player like Javaris Crittenton who is likely to meet him in the parking lot and put a nine in his face. :mjlol. Or even a Dennis Rodman, Charles Oakley, Kenyon Marin, Artist, Malone, Shawn Kemp, Larry Johnson? You don't really have these type of guys in the league anymore.

It's mainly suburban kids, foreigners and legacy players (kids of former NBA players). Corny dudes like Haliburton are becoming the main faces of the league now.

 

[FaTaL]

I was thinking about this recently.

Just look at this; the last 7 NBA MVP selections were all non-Americans. Where is the next US MVP-caliber player coming from? Shai, Jokic, Doncic and Wemby will probably share this accolade for at least the next 4 or 5 years. Maybe Tatum perhaps, but will he ever reach his full potential returning from an achilles injury? Maybe Anthony Edwards if he can take the next leap.

The game has definitely pivoted away fully from players who grew up in low income neighborhoods. I think that's why Draymond is punking these guys and they are shook of him. He knows a lot of the players coming up are really not like that. Imagine him trying this mess against a player like Javaris Crittenton who is likely to meet him in the parking lot and put a nine in his face. :mjlol. Or even a Dennis Rodman, Charles Oakley, Kenyon Marin, Artist, Malone, Shawn Kemp, Larry Johnson? You don't really have these type of guys in the league anymore.

It's mainly suburban kids, foreigners and legacy players (kids of former NBA players). Corny dudes like Haliburton are becoming the main faces of the league now.

Crittenton isn’t from the hood either, he’s an extreme case of stupidity

 

[Harry B]

of the 1990 and 2000 and 2010, all-nba teams who came from the “trenches”?

 

[HandyWithTheSteel]

MJ and Kobe were both middle class suburban nikkas.

 

[FTBS]

Not really.


Some of the best players in NBA history are not from the trenches

If you look at players in top 10 convos only two...Bird and Bron...came from the trenches. Not sure where this trench talk with the NBA came from. There is a reason AI stood out like he did. He aint do nothing but be a hood nikka and became a superstar antihero as a result.

 

[Po pimp]

Crittenton isn’t from the hood either, he’s an extreme case of stupidity

I could’ve sworn in that documentary they said he was from the projects in Atlanta? Not that it takes away from him making dumb decisions. They also said he was a good student in school.