Whatever happened to recruiting athletes from the hood?

[alpo]

Depends where you leave.

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

The "ghetto game" mythology for bball disappeared a long time ago.

Stephen Curry and the suburbanizing of the NBA
Once packed with inner-city players, pro basketball is suburbanizing

Isaac Eger
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May 5, 2016 · 4 min read

Stephen Curry and the suburbanizing of the NBA

A 2010 article in the International Review for the Sociology of Sport looked at the backgrounds of NBA players from 1994 to 2004. Among all NBA players during that period, “66 percent of African Americans and 93 percent of whites have advantaged social background.” In fact, NBA players who were raised in poverty and broken homes made up a minority of the league. The researchers found that “45 percent of African-American male children live in a lower social class context, while only 34 percent of African-American NBA players come from lower social class background. Similarly, 23 percent of white male children live in a lower social class context, while only 7 percent of white NBA players were from a lower social class background.”

Another study, authored in 2013 by New York Times writer Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, corroborated those findings, concluding that “growing up in a wealthier neighborhood is a major, positive predictor of reaching the NBA for both black and white men.” Comparing black NBA players born in the 1980s and the quality of the upbringing to the average black male, Stephens-Davidowitz estimates that NBA players are 30 percent less likely to be born to an unmarried mother and a teenage mother. In the third study, a 2009 article in The Mag found that NBA players were most likely to grow up in towns with a median population of 110,000 where the population is almost 60 percent white and educated.

 

[ISO]

Cole Anthony was poised to be the last kid that stayed in the city for his entire high school career until he went to Oak Hill because he would have been exposed without Moses Brown who went to UCLA.

If all the kids that left, stayed in the city, New York would be a problem.

The numbers Moses is putting up are surprising to me kid is coming together nicely

OKC signed him to a Lu Dort contract

 

[ISO]

Also, I had a post awhile ago about the best NBA players back in the 80’s and 90’s being country nikkas not from the hood.

 

[malbaker86]

Yep it happens in Alabama too

happening in Jax too

 

[Rell Lauren]

The "ghetto game" mythology for bball disappeared a long time ago.

Stephen Curry and the suburbanizing of the NBA
Once packed with inner-city players, pro basketball is suburbanizing

Isaac Eger
Follow
May 5, 2016 · 4 min read

Stephen Curry and the suburbanizing of the NBA

A 2010 article in the International Review for the Sociology of Sport looked at the backgrounds of NBA players from 1994 to 2004. Among all NBA players during that period, “66 percent of African Americans and 93 percent of whites have advantaged social background.” In fact, NBA players who were raised in poverty and broken homes made up a minority of the league. The researchers found that “45 percent of African-American male children live in a lower social class context, while only 34 percent of African-American NBA players come from lower social class background. Similarly, 23 percent of white male children live in a lower social class context, while only 7 percent of white NBA players were from a lower social class background.”

Another study, authored in 2013 by New York Times writer Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, corroborated those findings, concluding that “growing up in a wealthier neighborhood is a major, positive predictor of reaching the NBA for both black and white men.” Comparing black NBA players born in the 1980s and the quality of the upbringing to the average black male, Stephens-Davidowitz estimates that NBA players are 30 percent less likely to be born to an unmarried mother and a teenage mother. In the third study, a 2009 article in The Mag found that NBA players were most likely to grow up in towns with a median population of 110,000 where the population is almost 60 percent white and educated.

Parents who were professional athletes plus having resources is a headstart that kids from the hood would kill to have. They have to work that much harder and skill isn't what gets you in the door all of the time.

 

[daboywonder2002]

There’s no way u think DJ Wagner is from the hood. He might play in the hood but there’s a video of slam day in the life and he lives in a nice house in the burbs

I gotta watch it again. i thought he still lived in Camden. Then why does his son go to Camden high and not private or prep?

 

[staticshock]

Prep schools are taking kids out the hood and taking care of them..

For example, Anthony Edwards grew up in the hood and went to one of the worst rated high schools in Atlanta before one of those private schools in the rich part of town came and got him.

last hooper from Atlanta who grew up in the hood & graduated from a hood school to my knowledge is Derrick Favors..I could be wrong though. I’d have to look it up

 

[CantStop]

I gotta watch it again. i thought he still lived in Camden. Then why does his son go to Camden high and not private or prep?

probably to follow the legacy, his grandfather and father went there.

 

[Paper Boi]

rich parents/AAU programs paying for their kids to get training that's unavailable to many people that would've made it over some of the people with elite training from an early age just off raw talent.


there are still athletes from the hood tho, just far less frequent.

 

[get these nets]

The "ghetto game" mythology for bball disappeared a long time ago.

Stephen Curry and the suburbanizing of the NBA
Once packed with inner-city players, pro basketball is suburbanizing

Isaac Eger
Follow
May 5, 2016 · 4 min read

Stephen Curry and the suburbanizing of the NBA

A 2010 article in the International Review for the Sociology of Sport looked at the backgrounds of NBA players from 1994 to 2004. Among all NBA players during that period, “66 percent of African Americans and 93 percent of whites have advantaged social background.” In fact, NBA players who were raised in poverty and broken homes made up a minority of the league. The researchers found that “45 percent of African-American male children live in a lower social class context, while only 34 percent of African-American NBA players come from lower social class background. Similarly, 23 percent of white male children live in a lower social class context, while only 7 percent of white NBA players were from a lower social class background.”

Another study, authored in 2013 by New York Times writer Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, corroborated those findings, concluding that “growing up in a wealthier neighborhood is a major, positive predictor of reaching the NBA for both black and white men.” Comparing black NBA players born in the 1980s and the quality of the upbringing to the average black male, Stephens-Davidowitz estimates that NBA players are 30 percent less likely to be born to an unmarried mother and a teenage mother. In the third study, a 2009 article in The Mag found that NBA players were most likely to grow up in towns with a median population of 110,000 where the population is almost 60 percent white and educated.

Good articles

I think the best talent still comes from hood areas. They just get derailed along the way. Every pro athlete from a rough area always talks about 3-4 guys their age who were better.
Kids with more stable household and environment have better support system to nurture them.

Also, the hood used to protect kids with any kind of talent. Now guys who had the ability to be first round picks stay in the mix of street shyt, just like the kids with limited options do.

We used to run PAL track, and our star runner was from West Kinney Projects. We dropped him off once, mob swarmed him and said they wouldn't let him in his building if he didn't have a trophy. He pulled out the 1st place trophy and the ENTIRE block celebrated and carried him on their shoulders.

 

[daboywonder2002]

So ya'll telling me that you don't have a kid that goes to a local public school in the hood that can ball? I'm sure it's some ballers in the hoods of Atlanta, PG COUNTY maryland, Philly, etc. Every hood has a few hidden gems .

 

[CHICAGO]

WHO IS THE LAST NBA SUPERSTAR
WHO WENT TO A PUBLIC INNER CITY HIGHSCHOOL?

D ROSE?

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[Megadeus]

Bruh you still back in 1993?

Prolly just fresh off watching Above The Rim

 

[daboywonder2002]

It doesn't even have to be a 4 or 5 star athlete. It could be a 2 or 3 star. It's plenty of low and mid majors and HBCU'S that could come to the hood to recruit .