Whatever happened to recruiting athletes from the hood?

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

TNT just did a feature on this little girl basketball player who has crazy handles. I'm posting this here because although this is a girl I think this is sort of a microcosm of the future of basketball. It's clear her and her sister come from a well off family. I think that court they practice on is in their crib. They're 10 years old and have elite trainers working them out 5 hours a day. This is happening all over America where the upper class and middle class are going to be able to afford this kind of regiment that your average kid from the hood isn't going to have.

But this is what I meant in my post above about being able to afford "marketing". She went viral by going to an event hosted by that basketball youtuber Brandon Armstrong. What she did there then got her on TNT.

Salute to her and not taking anything away from her cause no matter what you have access to you still have to put in the work which she's doing.



Also as time goes by there are going to be more and more pro ball players and they have the means to have 3, 4, 5+ kids all of which will have access to elite training and young ages plus the genes of their parents.

The class disparity in America is going to be really real in the upcoming decades.

We also saw this with Kobe and GiGi (RIP).

 

[The War Report]

The level of entry to play any sport in this country is ridiculous now.

 

[CrimsonTider]

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

D ROSE?

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not superstar but Eric Bledsoe went to Parker High School


https://reportcard.alsde.edu/Alsde/OverallScorePage?schoolcode=0630&systemcode=114&year=2020

@Big Boss

 

[CHICAGO]

not superstar but Eric Bledsoe went to Parker High School


https://reportcard.alsde.edu/Alsde/OverallScorePage?schoolcode=0630&systemcode=114&year=2020

@Big Boss

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[KingJay]

Not everyone can afford these prep schools and all that you’re right, but as an athlete who went to one of those prep schools they bring a lot of brehs to the schools on scholarships to compete

So kids still making it from the hood, they’re just not going to school there

There’s def some talent being overlooked tho when it comes to the kids who stay

 

[concise]

If public schools start cutting their athletics programs in the covid aftermath, it will get worse.

 

[Phantum]

Athletes don't even go to hood schools like that no more. Nowadays you got schools from the suburbs taking the talent out of the hoods/ghettos and bringing them to their schools. I know it happens a lot in Texas

This right here. That's the reason why private schools are usually the best, they're not restricted to a school district and can recruit talented players.

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

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

D ROSE?

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Kawhi went to Martin Luther King High School. I’m not from Cali so I don’t know how inner-city it is

 

[getmoney310cpt]

Kawhi went to Martin Luther King High School. I’m not from Cali so I don’t know how inner-city it is

He went to SDSU wasn’t a top prospect in the nation regional prospect yes

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

This has been going on for a long time. I used to date a shorty who went to school with Carmelo, while we was all in high school. Never made sense how a bmore nikka was playing ball for a prep school in southern va.. But when she broke it down to me, her school had been churning out athletes for years already.

Melo, KD, Rondo... Look at their graduates.. It's been a thing

Famous Oak Hill Academy Alumni

 

[L&HH]

This has been going on for a long time. I used to date a shorty who went to school with Carmelo, while we was all in high school. Never made sense how a bmore nikka was playing ball for a prep school in southern va.. But when she broke it down to me, her school had been churning out athletes for years already.

Melo, KD, Rondo... Look at their graduates.. It's been a thing

Famous Oak Hill Academy Alumni

Come on fame you ain’t need a girl to tell you about Oak Hill. I mean I suppose if you don’t live in the DC area you wouldn’t know it but shyt even still they get ballers from all over for decades

 

[Tupac in a Business Suit]

It’s mostly coaching. All the hood AAU coaches have played JUCO/D3/NAIA while the kids from the suburbs have A plethora of coaches that have played from D1 to the pro levels.

Most of the hood coaches are stuck in that 90s era of track meets and run and gun until they go up against a talented team from the burbs that plays and executes well together and they get smoked.

I see it every weekend at ZeroGravity & Hoop Group events out East.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Come on fame you ain’t need a girl to tell you about Oak Hill. I mean I suppose if you don’t live in the DC area you wouldn’t know it but shyt even still they get ballers from all over for decades

Well, like I said, me and Melo were both in high school. Melo went to Oak Hill for one year in 2000. We wasn't paying attention to what high school people were coming from... We didn't even know about prep schools like that. We knew that had squads but not they were routinely drafting kids basically..

Most we'd hear about back then was an elite player staying at his aunt's across town to be on the OTHER local public school team. Moving to completely other states in the middle of high school to play ball, nah the North East was the last to the party on that one

 

[Rell Lauren]

This has been going on for a long time. I used to date a shorty who went to school with Carmelo, while we was all in high school. Never made sense how a bmore nikka was playing ball for a prep school in southern va.. But when she broke it down to me, her school had been churning out athletes for years already.

Melo, KD, Rondo... Look at their graduates.. It's been a thing

Famous Oak Hill Academy Alumni

Even when guys were going to Oak Hill, elite talent still stayed home. It's why the CHSAA in New York was pound for pound the best league in the entire country at one point. Imagine Felipe Lopez, Ron Artest or Kemba Walker going to South Kent or Brewster instead of earning their stripes in the city? That's just the Catholic league. Bassy and Lance came from Lincoln.

 

[L&HH]

@Rhakim post in that Cole Anthony thread fits right in this thread:

Yo, between 1996 and 1998, Portland had:

PG: Greg Anthony (Cole)
SG: Rick Brunson (Jalen)
SF: Harvey Grant (Jerian and Jerami)
PF: Gary Trent (Gary Jr.)
C: Arvydas Sabonis: (Domantas)
Coach: Mike Dunleavy (Mike Jr.)
Broadcaster: Mychal Thompson (Klay)


It really was the whole fukking team popping out NBA kids.



A Cole-Klay-Trent Jr.-Jerami-Domantas lineup would be a problem in a couple years too. Dunleavy Jr. could even coach.

Idk kids form the hood aren't going to have a chance in the future
https://www.thecoli.com/threads/col...rview-of-the-year.846730/page-2#post-41802176