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Yeah sureAnd then be great and create cultural and social blue prints for everyone else??
What Impact Will NBA Africa Have on FBA's Relationship to the Continent
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Cel 510 kid ados forever
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I fukking saw this coming like 5 yrs ago!!! Can't wait to tell my man i was right, ayyyyeee!
I dont even watch basketball like that. I glanced up from my book, saw a lot of Africans and biracials, and hit him with the "Ummmm... they bout to do ados men mad dirty." His response was, "
But our swag is tremendous tho, and we NICE nice. Nobody paying to see no Africans play, ain't nobody buying their sneakers or jerseys.
"
I left it alone and went back to my book.
Yup its been like this for a min harlem i also peeped this recently
It looks biracials and africans are who gonna be future stars
Giannis
Embid
Adebayo
Pascal
Are all all stars
9 african drafted in last draft 4 in the first 15 picks
Biracial
Devin booker
Jayson tatum
Gobert
Klay thompson
Steph curry
Haliburton
Lamelo ball
So yup ados men better be prepared to possibly look to another avenue
I mean they will still be ados black nba players but not at the same numbers its clear the shift
@saturn7
@MAGARussiaLGBT Crunch
Another reason why we need reparations
HarlemHottie
Uptown Thoroughbred
But it's not just the genes tho.Physicality is part of it, sure, but something ive learned about us ados, esp with all the music history i learn here, is that, due to our position in this country, we've had to cultivate skills that the rest of the diaspora didn't. Creativity is the major one. We dont just play music, we invent a whole new music theory. We didn't just play basketball like the jews who played in the early professional leagues, we started breaking ankles and dunking on nikkas.
Which leads me to my second point. Bc we existed as a minority in a white country, degraded and fukked up, we took the kernel African spiritual concept and made it our armor. To what do i refer, you ask? Swag. Its well known to sociologists, anthropologists, and historians that the idea of "cool" originated out of the jazz age.
Receipts
African-Americans invented cool as a stylistic defiance against racism during World War II. This is simply well-documented social, historical, and linguistic fact. To be cool in the 1940s referred to the ability to be relaxed in one's own style in any environment, an act of courage and mental strength for any Black person during the Jim Crow era. Whether meaning high praise ("Cool!"), vetting someone to others ("she's cool"), or referring to a relaxed state of mind ("I'm cool, man") -- our modern usages all began in jazz culture...
Joel Dinerstein is the author of Jazz: A Quick Immersion (2020), The Origins of Cool in Postwar America (U. Chicago 2017), American Cool (2014), Swinging the Machine (2003), and Coach: A Story of NY Cool (2016). I am a cultural historian and English professor at Tulane University working on the history of cool, popular culture, American music, and race and ethnicity. ... My TED Talk on cool is called Why Cool Matters.
African-Americans invented cool — Joel Dinerstein
From Africa to us, just read half of pg 1, really:
An Aesthetic of the Cool on JSTOR
Joel Dinerstein is the author of Jazz: A Quick Immersion (2020), The Origins of Cool in Postwar America (U. Chicago 2017), American Cool (2014), Swinging the Machine (2003), and Coach: A Story of NY Cool (2016). I am a cultural historian and English professor at Tulane University working on the history of cool, popular culture, American music, and race and ethnicity. ... My TED Talk on cool is called Why Cool Matters.
African-Americans invented cool — Joel Dinerstein
From Africa to us, just read half of pg 1, really:
An Aesthetic of the Cool on JSTOR
As im sure africans would agree, we different.
Box Factory
hater
Please explain how this is facts
Do you watch basketball at all or understand how stupid of a take that is?
PhillyzFinest
All Star
It’s a very significant subject because of the following:
1. IF you think about... the NBA is the only entity on earth that genuinely celebrates, appropriately compensates and openly empowers black American men.
2. There is no other place where men and women dress up on their finest attire to talk about, discuss and argue about the talent black men display like the NBA.
3. It’s a place where black men can instantly change their financial fortunes. On earnings alone, they can catapult to the 1%.
4. It’s a place where a player can become a coach, a coach can become a GM, and in some cases become a minority or majority owner. At the very least, a commentator, host, analyst or personality influencing the media perception of the game.
5. There’s a continuing pipeline of opportunity through amateurism to the NBA and beyond that creates niche opportunities for black men.
From Lavar Ball and his sons to LeBron to Durant and Chris Paul... you’re seeing how black men are taking more and more control of the machine... gaining a greater share of control of how players get paid, what kind of moves they can make, who plays with who, what kind of investments to make etc.
Expanding to Africa will no doubt dilute the concentration of black American men in the league, especially the big men.
Unless we control the league, it’s hard to capitalize the way we want to.
1. IF you think about... the NBA is the only entity on earth that genuinely celebrates, appropriately compensates and openly empowers black American men.
2. There is no other place where men and women dress up on their finest attire to talk about, discuss and argue about the talent black men display like the NBA.
3. It’s a place where black men can instantly change their financial fortunes. On earnings alone, they can catapult to the 1%.
4. It’s a place where a player can become a coach, a coach can become a GM, and in some cases become a minority or majority owner. At the very least, a commentator, host, analyst or personality influencing the media perception of the game.
5. There’s a continuing pipeline of opportunity through amateurism to the NBA and beyond that creates niche opportunities for black men.
From Lavar Ball and his sons to LeBron to Durant and Chris Paul... you’re seeing how black men are taking more and more control of the machine... gaining a greater share of control of how players get paid, what kind of moves they can make, who plays with who, what kind of investments to make etc.
Expanding to Africa will no doubt dilute the concentration of black American men in the league, especially the big men.
Unless we control the league, it’s hard to capitalize the way we want to.
Box Factory
hater
You might be fukking retarded
How you guys work these big long propaganda filled posts out of something you clearly no zero about is fukking insane
Theres already giant leagues in europe that are way bigger than this league. Theyve been there for decades.
This league will take decades to get on par with the high level euro leagues in terms of money, visibilty, notoriety, talent attraction and development
Pretty much eveey country that likes basketball has their own national league
So how you guys twist an african league being about a plot to black americans down is ridiculous
Somebody walk me through it. Are they gonna remove the nba draft and say you can only draft guys from this new league thats not a top 10 league in the world?
Take a second and think about what the fukk youre saying before you babble on with this baseless hillbilly anti immigrant shyt
Id be embarrassed be that dumb
Physicality is part of it, sure, but something ive learned about us ados, esp with all the music history i learn here, is that, due to our position in this country, we've had to cultivate skills that the rest of the diaspora didn't. Creativity is the major one. We dont just play music, we invent a whole new music theory. We didn't just play basketball like the jews who played in the early professional leagues, we started breaking ankles and dunking on nikkas.
Which leads me to my second point. Bc we existed as a minority in a white country, degraded and fukked up, we took the kernel African spiritual concept and made it our armor. To what do i refer, you ask? Swag. Its well known to sociologists, anthropologists, and historians that the idea of "cool" originated out of the jazz age.
Receipts
African-Americans invented cool as a stylistic defiance against racism during World War II. This is simply well-documented social, historical, and linguistic fact. To be cool in the 1940s referred to the ability to be relaxed in one's own style in any environment, an act of courage and mental strength for any Black person during the Jim Crow era. Whether meaning high praise ("Cool!"), vetting someone to others ("she's cool"), or referring to a relaxed state of mind ("I'm cool, man") -- our modern usages all began in jazz culture...
Joel Dinerstein is the author of Jazz: A Quick Immersion (2020), The Origins of Cool in Postwar America (U. Chicago 2017), American Cool (2014), Swinging the Machine (2003), and Coach: A Story of NY Cool (2016). I am a cultural historian and English professor at Tulane University working on the history of cool, popular culture, American music, and race and ethnicity. ... My TED Talk on cool is called Why Cool Matters.
African-Americans invented cool — Joel Dinerstein
From Africa to us, just read half of pg 1, really:
An Aesthetic of the Cool on JSTOR
As im sure africans would agree, we different.
Agree can’t argue with that but this is more relevant in music and things like that. Sport i think is more straight forward, it’s the black genes mixed with western infrastructure that makes Black Americans excel in most sports, so it’s only natural that in most sports Africa is always looked as a hotbed of talent because the same genes exist but the potential is even more untapped due to the infrastructure facilities and training.
The best players in the L are almost all ADOS
on top of the future ones like Ja and Zion being ADOS to
ehh not really
Giannis, Luka, Khawi, Embiid,Jokic, Gobert, Simmons, Kahwi (grandfather South African)
The world is catching up to the NBA.
Is this a troll post? You cant be serious lol.
I dont care how many Africans on the continent pick up the sport. Just like Boxing, the best Black players/fighters will always be American
All those players you named will never be a Jordan/Lebron/Kobe/Durant type player
Steph Curry is not biracial lmao wtf
get these nets
Veteran
The D-List Vet
Being in a recommendation system.
Sure about that?
Gonna have to split KAJ in half. He's AA/Trini
*just jokes
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HarlemHottie
Uptown Thoroughbred
What did infrastructure have to to with the magic that occurred at the Rucker? In the hood, the only "western infrastructure" was the hoop. Didn't no coach show them how to do all that.Tell me, since i don't follow sports, which sports have been completely re invented by other diasporic africans.
Im pressing it bc, generally, to push a discipline outside of its usual bounds is an inherently rebellious action and, frankly, i don't see that spirit in them. If the white coach said, 'Thats not how we do it," I'm expecting very little push back, hence no innovation.
But tell me if I'm wrong, preferably with examples.
