Basketball players set the template for success outside of sports, not saying football players aren't smart but you don't have a huge list of NFL players who have the business acumen of guys like
Bill Bradley
Lebron James
Magic Johnson
Michael Jordan
Shaq
Kobe Bryant
and I could go on and on.
Also because of the global nature of basketball it almost forces you to be more worldly. There are a lot of players who speak two or more languages and have been all over.
Again I'm not saying there aren't smart NFL players or baseball players but basketball even at it's base level stimulates, different parts of the brain than other sports and this coming from a football first guy.
A LOT of that is based on a few facts
No helmets or anything covering their faces
Fans being able to sit waaay closer to them than most other sports
Having less players and playing both sides of the ball, more visibility
The NBA and the NCAA not having complete meltdown whens players decided to wear their own shoes or rock longer shorts, a little rebellion is okay if it brings attention
None of that shyt is inherently connected to players intelligence and it's ridiculous to say that the sport caused them to be smarter or that it naturally draws the smartest athletes
Those brothas are smart because they chose to be, plenty of dumb nikkas in the league
