a lot of africans are getting into ball at a younger age now. They show NBA games on ESPN a lot out there. Soon enough you'll see a truly skilled african wing player in the NBA like how Hakeem held it down for big men
What Impact Will NBA Africa Have on FBA's Relationship to the Continent
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a lot of africans are getting into ball at a younger age now. They show NBA games on ESPN a lot out there. Soon enough you'll see a truly skilled african wing player in the NBA like how Hakeem held it down for big men
Look at who are the current champs
What if African parents actually encouraged and nurtured their children towards sports like Americans do? 
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You said all that and Jon Jones lost less than all 3 fighters combined and is the undisputed GOAT of a sport we barely care about
You look at Boxing and all the GOATS are BLACK Americans. From Ali, Suga Ray Robinson, Jack Johnson, Joe louis... i can literally go all day
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You’re nuts. Africa has always worked with less since colonialism. You need to get off the high horse of “we had it worse”I see we talking about pele, so obligatory story: My big brother is bff with an afro mexican that used to have a band. S/o to Cameradas on the east side, i think they closed. Anyway, one night, we come through and they got a afro latin singer, a female. As is my duty, bc im in the fam, i chat her up, tho her English is bad. Come to find out, she's one of pele's many daughters! Not even being funny, i had no idea who he was, but i tipped my hat when i found out.
No, i hear you, we kin. What im trying to convey, possibly poorly, is that i believe ados exist in a very special place of 'system- breakers'.
Bc our constaints were so tight. We couldnt even drum.Thats basic African diaspora 101 shyt. What we must have gone through, to be forced, under duress, to invent bodily percussion. "Hambone" (search the coli or google), taught to me by my mother, who was taught by her mother. All proof of our ingenuity in contuing the percussion of the homeland.
So we broke everything. We made fiddles make new notes, we made drums and harmonicas do things they were never intended to do.
Understand, i mean no disrespect to Africans. Thank you mama Africa for birthing us all. But we ended up over here and took seeds and made them into trees, from a position of nothing. Coal turns to diamonds of they undergo enough stress, no?
System-breakers.
shyt is mythical.
You said all that and Jon Jones lost less than all 3 fighters combined and is the undisputed GOAT of a sport we barely care about
You look at Boxing and all the GOATS are BLACK Americans. From Ali, Suga Ray Robinson, Jack Johnson, Joe louis... i can literally go all day
Lennox Lewis, a Jamaican, did knock out the Goat Black America, Mike Tyson
Tyson was washed up and coked outLennox Lewis, a Jamaican, did knock out the Goat Black America, Mike Tyson
Props to Lennox tho but the exception is not the rule. Which is why theres not many Jamaican all time greats
Prime Tyson would beat the breaks off Lennox lewis tho
What if African parents actually encouraged and nurtured their children towards sports like Americans do?
Im sure they do
Tyson was washed up and coked out
Props to Lennox tho but the exception is not the rule. Which is why theres not many Jamaican all time greats
Prime Tyson would beat the breaks off Lennox lewis tho
We got Usain Bolt
Africans care for basketball about as much as Black Americans care for soccer..
Breh a lot of folks have not lived or worked overseas. Man basketball some nice side show to much of the world. They really ain't thinking of the sport like they are soccer.
I will never forget how I realized how big soccer was. It was during the world cup in 2014 I was working in mexico at one plant that was owned by the American company I worked for at the time.
The plant was huge and about 3k folks worked there. Do you know that whenever mexico played they shut down the entire plant until the game was over with. Yes the entire plant. Rolled out big screen tvs in the plant and dimmed the lights. Folks would pull up chairs and watch the entire match.
I was down there the whole time mexico played in the world cup. So this went on like 5 or 6 games...
.Can you imagine that shyt happed in america. Where a plant shut down to watch every game that team USA played in basketball in the olympics...or world games...shyt would never happen.
And that is the difference how folks around the world look at soccer. Basketball just a sport to them...soccer a got damn way of life.
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???What if African parents actually encouraged and nurtured their children towards sports like Americans do?
The lure of a full athletic scholarship has attracted international athletes to the U.S. for decades.
East Africans, Kenyans specifically dominate middle and long distances. There's an entire sports system culture in certain regions where kids are encouraged to train to either land a D1 ride or run professionally.
The soccer system culture exists across other parts of Africa where kids with talent are encouraged to train to land a contract with a Euro soccer team.
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Yep. Those events altered everything. Because teams were no longer in fear of being held hostage by an agent, they put less thought into drafts. Even if they blew a pick, would barely cost them anything and they were on the hook for only 2-3 years.
Before only outstanding players had a shot to get drafted. After the rookie cap, everybody and their mother was declaring for the draft.
Why not?
I feel the cap hurt league play down the line, too. No incentive to develop a player if he didn't show good signs right away.
Right about the teen player getting drafted and signing 2-3 max deals. KG lucked out with that. He was born at the right time, and rolled the dice. And hit.
