What Impact Will NBA Africa Have on FBA's Relationship to the Continent

[Premeditated]

Africans care for basketball about as much as Black Americans care for soccer..

this

Nigeria, Senegal, Rwanda might be the only countries that have a decent fanbase on the continent

 

[Dolla$]

Whoever your referring to i got on ignore, but one insecure nikka dont mean the Avg ADOS nikka is worried.

nonados nikkas like to think they occupy nikkas minds, when they dont. most of it, is nonados talking about us. Even this thread wasnt even started by a ADOS but a dominican trying to sir stuff up

this is not a net thing
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What was he trying to start? My mind didn’t even go there when I initially read the OP. The tone of the thread was set from the first post after OP and my statement was made because of the first post and all the posters feeding into it. The Avg ADOS person is YOU nikkas because people that I interact with in my life wouldn’t know what the hell ADOS is if I brought it to their attention.

So yes based off this forum the avg ADOS seems VERY pressed and VERY insecure

 

[Gee Mello]

This will expand the brand to a point where there can be a global champion by way of post season tourney between various leagues ala Champions League in Soccer. It's an excellent move, I understand they've been trying to establish the league in West Africa for years, better late than never. India is next, that way they can circumvent the money lost from China.

 

[SAINT]

Y’all are embarrassing. Truly...

 

[JackRoss]

Why is every group in the diaspora attached to us? Can they do anything without mentioning or bringing us up? What is the issue?

Yall don't find that to be strange? Proves our little 12% does the most and the rest are pretty much dead weight.

 

[10bandz]

Africans care for basketball about as much as Black Americans care for soccer..

that’s not true African fukk with basketball heavy

 

[Blackrogue]

7 to 9 of last year's first round were from african backgrounds. People like giannis and embiid are arguably top at their position and they are african.

So theres potential talent out there. I'm excited about actually having a watchable league. About having players being coached better , players having something to play for.

I grew up playing basketball since I was too small to throw the ball into the basket cause it was too high. I played at every level available, was captain of my high school team and played some club stuff after high school. We were playing for the love of it. We barely got coached, we didn't get trained in skills, we didn't really run plays but more so read and reacted. A lot was left out. Guys were talented though. We weren't paid.

No one was motivated to coach cause there was no money in it. No one was motivated to dedicate themselves to the craft because they had work lives and basketball didn't pay. So just the opportunity to have proffesionals withing coaching, front office, scouting , players.. will motivate a lot of people.

 

[Blackrogue]

that’s not true African fukk with basketball heavy

There's guys who do but to be honest the timezones fukk with africans ability to watch games cause most games start at 2 or 3 am and that's the east coast ones.

 

[Originalman]

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.

The rookie scale came in in 1995. After big dog demanded 100 mill and threaten to sit out in 1994. But finally agreed to the 64 mill contract.

Yep Zeke pulling KG aside and saying fukk college you good enough to go pro.

Actually that interaction between KG and zeke changed the history of the game for the next 20 plus years. If you don't believe me brotha let me do a run down.

Zeke tells KG he can go pro. KG gets drafted by the Wolves. Down the line KG signs his max deal that is 6 years long 126 million dollar contract. The savages in sports (owners and media) go crazy because this is the highest deal in the league and KG is only 21.

See when KG went pro the rookie deal was 3 years. Then they were eligible for a new contract. But after Garnett came out of high school and got that fat ass contract after his third year they added a 4th and 5th year option and how rookies could be restricted free agents and a cap on their first big contract. To curb their salaries.

Then you have in 2010 after the celtics beat the cavs how Garnett (even mentioned this in a press conference) saying that lebron should not try to be loyal like him. Wasting his youth on a team that isn't talented to win. And that how he (garnett) may have cost himself 2 or 3 or 4 rings trying to be loyal.

So garnett basically changed the paradigm of the entire sport for the next 20 plus years having that conversation with zeke as a high school graduate at that little pick up game against pros in chicago and later his conversation with Lebron.

 

[Originalman]

7 to 9 of last year's first round were from african backgrounds. People like giannis and embiid are arguably top at their position and they are african.

So theres potential talent out there. I'm excited about actually having a watchable league. About having players being coached better , players having something to play for.

I grew up playing basketball since I was too small to throw the ball into the basket cause it was too high. I played at every level available, was captain of my high school team and played some club stuff after high school. We were playing for the love of it. We barely got coached, we didn't get trained in skills, we didn't really run plays but more so read and reacted. A lot was left out. Guys were talented though. We weren't paid.

No one was motivated to coach cause there was no money in it. No one was motivated to dedicate themselves to the craft because they had work lives and basketball didn't pay. So just the opportunity to have proffesionals withing coaching, front office, scouting , players.. will motivate a lot of people.

Yep and thats the infrastructure I was mentioning. The money has to be there to train the players. It just isn't there in a lot of countries. Where as the US it is so much money in coaching basketball or training kids to play. shyt I had my 7 year old daughter with a trainer and even though he was a young brotha fresh out of high school he was still charging like 20 bucks a session. He was making so much money training little black kids dude said he made 1k a week at 19 years old.

Brotha I know who played in Italy for 3 years said he goes down to mexico and trains rich mexican kids in basketball and they only doing this shyt as a hobby and makes like a couple a grand when he does it. He basically goes on vacation there with his wife and does some trainings for vacation money. Dude said their are barely any courts down there and that the kids have like no training.

Its also the same in mexico for american football...yes they actually play american football down there. But it is the same issue a lack of training and a lack of equipment. So the kids fundamentals aren't good at all. A high school team probably has the skill set of 7th grade elementary school team if that.

 

[Roland Coltrane]

But yet literally the first post after OP was some insecure ADOS bullshyt about being replaced when the thread is about BASKETBALL

Face the facts nikka, ya’ll the most insecure group of nikkas on the net and I say the net because real nikkas outside this shyt could give two fukks about ADOS or even know what the fukk ADOS is.

why does ADOS got you so aggy


are you a foreign breh


judging by your emotional responses I'd assume so



anyways, we don't give a fukk about you or your opinion my guy

you're just a prime example of a hit dog hollering
and you're not the only foreign breh in this thread doing so

you and the rest of the non ADOS/FBA folks in the thread NEVER ever on this board have had the same energy and vitriol about other groups in the diaspora puffing their chests out and MAKI G SURE they assert their distinct identity, despite you stealing and/or being influenced by everything WE do, yet at the same time shytting on us.

That's legitimately cac level cognitive dissonance

that angst, anger, envy, jealousy, and INSECURITY among you got everybody non ADOS/FBA teaming up on us like Voltron on here

imagine doing all that and at the end of the day realizing you still don't matter

 

[Roland Coltrane]

what other ethnic group is putting out more and better talent then african americans? all those dudes you listed come from 1 country

how do you compared the whole world talent pool to an entire ethnic group?

juelzing and deflection incoming

 

[Roland Coltrane]

This will expand the brand to a point where there can be a global champion by way of post season tourney between various leagues ala Champions League in Soccer. It's an excellent move, I understand they've been trying to establish the league in West Africa for years, better late than never. India is next, that way they can circumvent the money lost from China.

 

[Swahili P'Bitek]

then what's taking so long with the NBA and skill players

where are the African Kyries, Stephs, Dames, PGs, Ja Morants, etc???

African brehs been in the league a minute and it happened yet

Once Africans in the continent start playing basketball in the streets, you"ll see it. From my experience, people play football as a past time from they're kids, I have never seen people play basketball, most people don't even know the rules. People who play basketball picked up the sport when they were 14/15 in highschool, and I'm talking about the basics that a child in America already has, they start learning dribbling at that age, the rules, how to shoot etc. And once they finish highschool, 90% of them drop it. Whereas we started playing football in the streets at 5, by 14, only sharpening of technique is needed. There's your answer, there is no basketball culture in Africa.

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

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