Nba becoming a suburban sport?

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Red Money said:
1991/92 On Fresh Prince Will thought he was Better than G Money cause he didn't realize G Money was a homeboy when they played Malibu prep. If you didn't have though breaks you was fodder and deserved no respect.

Real life Jalen Rose hated Grant Hill for a period of time.

Outside of the NBA air felt like if you wasn't from the hood you wasn't even allowed on the court. You had to be sunset park. Seemed like a suburb vs city rivalry back in the day all black sports. Not to mention all black sports wanted a city kid from slums as seen to be tougher.


As time went on it was just intimidation tactics from people that lived amongst black on black crime hating on suburbanites and it eventually came to rest and anyone could play these sports.


I'm kinda rambling...but Kobe was seen as Oreo and soft until he caught the case and got credibility.... he's wasn't real in the Iverson era.
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Are u saying the rape case gave him credibility :dwillhuh:

More Black folks may have sympathized for him because we know how that shyt go but idk about him gaining credibility from it.
 
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keon said:
Are u saying the rape case gave him credibility :dwillhuh:

More Black folks may have sympathized for him because we know how that shyt go but idk about him gaining credibility from it.
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Kobe finally had a tough break and white folks wasn't loving him all day. Made him real.

Seemed like Kobe was handed everything from moesha, Sprite, NBA court side, called the next jordan & gifted Shaq. Seem like Kobe ain't have no struggles to make him real.
 
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Do some of y’all even know any kids that plays youth basketball? I been coaching for the last five years , two with Nike, the cream will always rise to the top , basketball is popular across the world , Anthony Edwards came from money? I don’t think so, I don’t understand where people are coming from when they say shyt like this, if you can play basketball really good , somebody will make sure that you go somewhere
 
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They did studies awhile ago on this.

Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Jimi Adams of Arizona State University studied NBA players from 1994 to 2004. They found that among African-Americans, a child from a low-income family has 37 percent lower odds of making the NBA than a child from a middle- or upper-income family. Poor white athletes are 75 percent less likely to become NBA players than middle-class or well-off whites. Further, a black athlete from a family without two parents is 18 percent less likely to play in the NBA than a black athlete raised by two parents, while a white athlete from a non-two-parent family has 33 percent lower odds of making the pros. As Dubrow and Adams put it, "The intersection of race, class and family structure background presents unequal pathways into the league."

Contrary to popular perception, poverty and broken homes are underrepresented in the NBA, not overrepresented. For example, while 45 percent of black male children in the U.S. live in households earning no more than 150 percent of the poverty line ($22,050 for a family of four in 2010), just 34 percent of black athletes in the NBA grew up in that financial situation, according to Dubrow and Adams. Thirty percent of white American males come from below-average-income homes without two parents, but not one white NBA player had that background. Economics and family boost or drag an athlete, like in other professions.
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The Mag: Importance of an athlete's background
 
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mastermind said:
what post in this thread is hating on middle class back people?
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I'm not going to pretend I read every post. Reading page 2 (50 post per line ftw) I can't believe the Coli has matured so much :picard: My statement wasn't directed at anyone, it was a general statement to those types that never get over the anger of how they grew up vs how someone else grew. shyt I was talking to my brother yesterday and found out one of my cousins was jealous because we had a basketball court in our apartment complex that he thought belonged just to us :mjlol: He was in the city and we were in the suburbs but our economical situation was the same.
 
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kt773 said:
Do some of y’all even know any kids that plays youth basketball? I been coaching for the last five years , two with Nike, the cream will always rise to the top , basketball is popular across the world , Anthony Edwards came from money? I don’t think so, I don’t understand where people are coming from when they say shyt like this, if you can play basketball really good , somebody will make sure that you go somewhere
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You missing the point and it’s flying over your head .. y’all be reading just to argue .. have a good day my guy I ain’t going back and forth
 
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Dipsey Doo said:
We are seeing the effects of black people moving out the city to the suburbs in real time
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Not necessarily. I think what we’re seeing is the offspring of the first generation college athletes from the 80s & 90s start to make their imprint in sports. The NBA and even NFL are becoming legacy sports.

8 Americans were taken in the lottery of the draft this year, only two of them (Jalen Williams & Jalen Duren) didn’t have a parent that hooped professionally or at least played D1.
 
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