Why doesn't NYC produce elite NBA talent

[Mr. Jack Napier]

Give us time, we'll be back.

 

[Colin X]

Why doesn't Kentucky produce great college players?

 

[aceboon]

Word, Isaiah Whitehead had a nice career at Lincoln, he's our McDonalds All-American, he going to Seton Hall which IMO is a mistake. He got offers from Indiana (pretty elite program), St.John's (on the upswing), Minnesota and Pitt.

Dude was ranked 14th in the ESPN 100, arguably the best SG in the nation hope he make the A.

eh, time will tell whether it was a mistake for Whitehead to go to Seton Hall. I have no idea what to make of Willard as a head coach since he's never had great talent, but dude got desperate and is now buying up recruits by hiring all of their coaches, lol, so its not like he will be surrounded by bums. Not sure why you mentioned St Johns, that program is going nowhere under Lavin and Jakar Sampson himself even said if he has to go through the DLeague in order to make the NBA, then he would develop better there then he would have if he stayed at SJ.

 

[Real]

It's common knowledge collectively, NY nikkas aint shyt.

 

[ejthompson23]

And the Yankees won in 2009, and were in the ALCS in 2012.

Being good at a irrelevant sport really doesn't count...that's why I didn't mention it...

 

[ejthompson23]

The principle behind the law makes sense...it's just not used well...or its used in cases where the defendant is clearly guilty...

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

They moved to NJ.

 

[Kings County]

shytty ass coaches
same reason we dont have any elite football talent either our school systems aint setup like that

 

[Bam Bam]

tech not NYC but Tobias Harris drained a 3 in my face back in HS. I had no business gaurding that man he was a full foot taller than me

 

[King Poetic]

Haven't all the new York nikkas made there way down south cause of cost of living which is why New York isn't the same or moved over to Jersey

 

[CACarot]

NYC don't got them slave genes like the south and other parts of the country which produce the tall 6'4 and above type players that dominate the league.

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

Maybe because New York City is so crowded and they can't get the exercise that kids in other cities can get?

 

[wild100sboy]

this up and coming generation is too busy poppin pills and turnin up

 

[Carlos Huerta]

NYC don't got them slave genes like the south and other parts of the country which produce the tall 6'4 and above type players that dominate the league.

yeah, good point. None of the black people in NYC are descendants of slaves.

 

[aceboon]

I don't know what's been going on in the last decade. A lot of things have do with it for example all the big high schools have been broken down into a bunch of smaller ones, a lot of the powerhouses like Rice closed down, back then NYC had the most popping HS basketball scene in the nation. Right now Wings and Eagle Academy in the Bronx, as well as Lincoln in Brooklyn trying to hold it down. The Dyckman and Rucker Park scene is still hot. A lot of the nikkas that was coming out didn't pass the torch well, a lot of them flopped in the NBA and got into other shyt.

Like a poster said we are a guard oriented city and it is a gift and a curse, another thing is the AAU we don't have those elite AAU teams like other cities, a lot of NBA talent isn't coming out the city (really outside of Chicago) but surrounding suburbs because of the prescense of the AAU and elite catholic/prep schools. Not to mention we need open facilities and gyms, shyt over here nikkas waste time playing 21 and little 5 on 5 games on concrete. That's why our suburbs and upstate is producing ballers. Danny Green, Tobias Harris, Kyle Anderson, Ben Gordon, Kyrie Irving (parents is from the Bronx ), AJ Price, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist all from Long Island/NYC suburbs in Jersey/Westchester. Hibbert was born in Queens but he came outta upstate Buffalo, Jimmer Fredette from upstate too. Those suburban areas have massive schools with weight rooms and shyt and put a big emphasis on sports.

We produced these in the last decade
Lance Stephenson
Kemba Walker
Carmelo Anthony (lived here till he was 9, got his start playing in Red Hook projects)
Taj Gibson
Joakim Noah
Sebastian Telfair (should have went to Louisville could have been elite)
Renaldo Balkman
Moe Harkless
Charlie Vilanueva
Kyle O'Quinn
Gary Forbes

Look how I have to reach . Back then we had Kareem, Dr.J, Chris Mullin, Bernard King, Bob Cousy, Dolph Shayes. Not that long ago we had Ron Artest, Elton Brand, Lamar Odom, Kenny Anderson, Jamaal Tinsley, Rafer Alston, Kenny Smith, Wally World, Anthony Mason, Rolando Blackman, Jamal Mashburn, etc.

I think the Knicks being so bad from 2000-2010 is a big reason why too.

agree with most of this except the elite AAU stuff, Team Scan is one of the best Nike AAU teams around, although they've kind of deviated from their original model of being local and now have upstate, LI, NJ, and CT kids on their roster. Also New Heights is crushing the Under Armour circuit, their 16u team is the #1 ranked program in the country and they just bodied alot of southern squads during the last live period.