Why doesn't NYC produce elite NBA talent

[MikelArteta]

http://grantland.com/features/nyc-b...on-marbury-kenny-anderson-tom-konchalski-nba/

 

[Swiggy]

More cats tryna drop demo tapes on the mic instead of on the court?

 

[Typical Knicks Fan]

Gentrification?

 

[SpacelySprockets]

Theres 2 elite NBA players from NY on the Charlotte Hornets backcourt

 

[holidayinn21]

this thread again...............

 

[OG Talk]

More cats tryna drop demo tapes on the mic instead of on the court?

Then how come the only thing more dead than NYC hoops is the NYC hip hop scene?

 

[Boolean]

inb4 salty bamma ass nikkas come through

Edit: Too late

 

[NYC Rebel]

This is NY now. Got these folks brave enough to come out now and live off the city's former cool.




Sent this to my wife and she caught a legitimate fit.

 

[boskey]

I wonder how much the immigrant black population plays a part. Learning about hip hop/rapper bios I notice that half of these NY dudes are jamaican/trini or something...

 

[NYC Rebel]

I wonder how much the immigrant black population plays a part. Learning about hip hop/rapper bios I notice that half of these NY dudes are jamaican/trini or something...

BIG was the only one that made hip hop stand out again, at least in the part of BK I lived in. Dancehall reggae was just as big as hip hop here

 

[360dagod]

NY is a guard orientated city which is a gift and a curse...

There are mad NYC streetball teams...WHICH IS A BIG ISSUE

Once shyt hit the fan with the gauchos and riverside, shyt went downhill..

Not to mention when Rice closed down

Not to mention as I said before on different topics involving NY shyt...NY nikkas are the hardest to control in terms of getting nikkas to agree to one goal..

The nikka who is 8th man on the bench is usually the nicest nikka in his hood...He not trying to hear come off the bench when he got the whole hood coming to his game...He would rather shine on a wack team than to be the 8th man on a loaded team...

In this era of twitter, intastgram etc, the individual "achievement" comes before anything....

Politics got a lot to do with it as well....

 

[OG Talk]

I wonder how much the immigrant black population plays a part. Learning about hip hop/rapper bios I notice that half of these NY dudes are jamaican/trini or something...

Felipe Lopez was Dominican. Patrick Ewing is Jamaican, Hakeem and others are children of immigrants... The NBA is about to be flooded with tons of Africans in the next decade...I see a lot of them in the AAU circuit.. So I'm not sure that has a major effect...

Blackleticism is Blackleticism

 

[NYC Rebel]

Felipe Lopez was Dominican. Patrick Ewing is Jamaican, Hakeem and others are children of immigrants... The NBA is about to be flooded with tons of Africans in the next decade...I see a lot of them in the AAU circuit.. So I'm not sure that has a major effect...

Blackleticism is Blackleticism

But these dude like soccer and cricket. I see it here.

 

[360dagod]

Felipe Lopez was Dominican. Patrick Ewing is Jamaican, Hakeem and others are children of immigrants... The NBA is about to be flooded with tons of Africans in the next decade...I see a lot of them in the AAU circuit.. So I'm not sure that has a major effect...

Blackleticism is Blackleticism

Africans have flooded NY breh...

You can tell they there when you smell a smell that you've never smelled before in your smell of smells..

And they integrate so they will be ballin

 

[boskey]

Felipe Lopez was Dominican. Patrick Ewing is Jamaican, Hakeem and others are children of immigrants... The NBA is about to be flooded with tons of Africans in the next decade...I see a lot of them in the AAU circuit.. So I'm not sure that has a major effect...

Blackleticism is Blackleticism

No doubt, I would never say that immigrants can't play basketball just that it might have shifted (damaged) the culture of basketball in New York

But this right here is a very interesting point in the article

Hear him out. “So where are the best players coming from?” he asks. “They’re coming from the South. They’re coming from Florida, Texas, Georgia, California. And what do they do in those states? They play football. I mean, all you have to do is look at Jersey. In Jersey, high school football matters. In New York, it doesn’t. And who’s got the best basketball players? Jersey.”

He’s not done: “Let’s just keep it in New York. Most of the best basketball teams are at Catholic schools. Catholic schools play football. Who’s the best public school for football? Lincoln. Who’s the best public school for basketball? Lincoln.”

The correlation is undeniable. The states that produce the most football players also produce the most basketball players.6 And that leads Bergman to his point. “It’s all about the weights,” he says. “Football schools have weight rooms. They have coaches who understand that lifting is important. They have parents who understand that lifting is important. The kids themselves get it. Everyone gets it. Here, no one gets it.”

On the AAU circuit, players see the difference. “There’s this reputation,” says Hicks. “It’s always, ‘You gotta watch out for those kids from Florida or those kids from Texas. They grow ’em bigger down there.’” Several coaches say that many New York parents voice concerns about weightlifting stunting their children’s growth. (It won’t.) “In parts of the country with football,” says Bergman, “I think that stereotype doesn’t exist for the most part. Here, it’s everywhere.”