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Most NBA players in recent years aren't from the hood? No more hoop dreams?

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Basketball in this country like Soccer in most of the world used to be the sport where kids from poverty had hoops dreams to make it out of. But it seems like the trend has changed in more recent times. A lot of top basketball prospects now seem to be son of former NBA players or NFL players. Some have said that after having teams in the NBA like the Jailblazers, Malice in the Palace Pacers and Thuggets the NBA wanted to change the direction of the league in getting away from hood prospects for suburban prospects like the Steph Currys, Klay Thompsons, Lonzo Ball, Ben Simmons, Kyrie Irvings.

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All the rec centers that closed around the country back when a lot of inner cities were struggling probably has something to do with it. Basketball was a great escape for poor kids in the hood and those opportunities aren't there like they used to be in a lot of places.
 
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It also makes you think are the best basketball talent not coming from the hoods anymore? Cause in soccer, the best talent still are as The Banlieues of Paris have produced the most elite talent in recent years
 
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TheyCallMeBe said:
All the rec centers that closed around the country back when a lot of inner cities were struggling probably has something to do with it. Basketball was a great escape for poor kids in the hood and those opportunities aren't there like they used to be in a lot of places.
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Agree. And the outdoor courts where kids could hoop all day; many were controlled by one set meaning they offered reasonable protection for the kids; the REALLY special ones after a certain, they had “sponsors” but that gave them another level of coverage and financial support. Wild cowboys now don’t respect the unwritten but agreed upon rules of the game like that anymore.
 
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tpotda said:
It's just interesting how it changed cause for the decades it hasn't been the case hence Biggie's lyrics of "Either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot"
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"Staring at the skyscrapers reaching into heaven, while over in the ghetto I'm livin' in hell,
Just play ball or be an entertainer, 'cause niggas like me can't read too well." - Melle Mel from "New York, New York".
 
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It's crazy, because in the suburbs back in the day, there were basically no fucking basketball courts. The ones they did have started getting taken down as more black folks moved to the suburbs. The city would come and take off the rim. :smh:

Kids in the suburbs hoop in the yard or in organized ball. Meanwhile, the city kids have an abundance of courts and rec centers running open gym. Always been like that in NE Ohio.
 
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TheyCallMeBe said:
All the rec centers that closed around the country back when a lot of inner cities were struggling probably has something to do with it. Basketball was a great escape for poor kids in the hood and those opportunities aren't there like they used to be in a lot of places.
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All those rec centers were closed by design!! Everything that happens in this corporation is well thought out!! All these cuts in city funding happened during the regan era and around that time the war on drugs was amped up.. The strange thing was, there wasnt a drug problem when regan amped up the WOD!! If a person would do sum research from the regan era til now and connect a few dots along the way, they will find out the plan was always to enslave the inner city and middle class black men and boys!! And make billions off having them in these concentration/prisons/labor camps!! Anyway, your spot on about those rec centers getting shut down!!
 
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leonartist said:
they start in the hood and are plucked out by the county and catholic schools before they get to high school. they continue to rape us of our natural resources
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Yep, thats what the rich private school around here does. Also all the basketball summer camps are all rich and suburban kids. Even if a kid from the hood today is naturally talented he is going to be at a disadvantage because of all the private lessons and camps the rich kids have.
 
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Flawless said:
Yep, thats what the rich private school around here does. Also all the basketball summer camps are all rich and suburban kids. Even if a kid from the hood today is naturally talented he is going to be at a disadvantage because of all the private lessons and camps the rich kids have.
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A kid can have all the lessons in the world but it will never Trump natural sports ability. You can’t teach what star players have.
 
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moblack said:
A kid can have all the lessons in the world but it will never Trump natural sports ability. You can’t teach what star players have.
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So college is a waist of time and good players should immediately go the NBA then.
 
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Flawless said:
Yep, thats what the rich private school around here does. Also all the basketball summer camps are all rich and suburban kids. Even if a kid from the hood today is naturally talented he is going to be at a disadvantage because of all the private lessons and camps the rich kids have.
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Your right!! Those camps can get pretty damn costly, too!! My oldest son was a good qb and during the month of june, I was spending $700 a week to send him to 2 college camps and he would go to 6 of them each summer.. I thought 6 camps the month of june was too many, but their were kids going to 8 of them in one month and all around the nation.. Those college camp is how those team find those hidden gems as they call them..
 
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I don't believe that at all but what I do believe is that their the nba,nike,addidas ...ect are now selecting certain players over other's instead of talent being the only thing you need,they've made it much more with the camps,trainers and awhole bunch of shit most don't need and this starts in jr high school;A ball,a court is all that's needed and sports won't die in the hood cause those are things we are given every holiday.
 
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It makes sense. Most of the guys who made it have access to top training. Very rare that a hood nigga has access to that type of shit
 
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Nah that used to be the case before the trend changed, the days when street niggas would leave their hoods to go to Prep schools/basketball powerhouse programs sometimes in the middle of nowhere to try to focus instead of having a foot in the streets. Niggas like DerMarr Johnson from DC and Caron Butler from Racine to Maine Central Institute in the middle of nowhere. Niggas like Lenny Cooke and Michael Beasley going to like 6 diff schools and shit. Brandon Jennings from Compton going to Oak Hill in Virginia. Nowadays most of these niggas were never in the hood.

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they start in the hood and are plucked out by the county and catholic schools before they get to high school. they continue to rape us of our natural resources
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Also remember when they first put in the dress code was the Iverson era when the players were wearing fitteds and durags underneath them with baggy clothes and long platinum chains. Now that the league doesn't have hood niggas like that anymore, they're not enforcing the dress code the same way
 
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tpotda said:
Basketball in this country like Soccer in most of the world used to be the sport where kids from poverty had hoops dreams to make it out of. But it seems like the trend has changed in more recent times. A lot of top basketball prospects now seem to be son of former NBA players or NFL players. Some have said that after having teams in the NBA like the Jailblazers, Malice in the Palace Pacers and Thuggets the NBA wanted to change the direction of the league in getting away from hood prospects for suburban prospects like the Steph Currys, Klay Thompsons, Lonzo Ball, Ben Simmons, Kyrie Irvings.

https://www.blackenterprise.com/nba...zll9avfWEoKPZcEk7Xk0iJbpgOJ0HmGMWWtPlJgx8P8sg
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"Some have said"

:hmm:

Some should stay silent. What a waste of words.
 
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The part about sons of ex-pros making it in the league....that shouldnt surprise anyone. I mean everybody isn't gonna be able to have a pro career following in dad's footsteps, but imagine a kid growing up and being trained by a dude that is already in the league...learning to guard an nba player and learning to get around or shoot over someone of that talent level....imagine that kid doing that in the backyard at home and having that headstart.
 
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Not just son of NBA and pro basketball players overseas but sons of NFL players too like Jaxson Hayes who will most likely be top 10 in this draft, Kevin Knox last year too, Marvin Bagley's dad played in the AFL. Vernon Carey Jr. who's a top prospect in this upcoming HS class as well is son of Vernon Carey who played OL as a Miami Hurricane and then the NFL
 
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KingTaharqa said:
Sounds like we'll be seeing even more BIRACIAL NBA players in the future.
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*More White NBA players in the future. Fixed.

Those biracial kids are primary are having kids with White women. Answer this question: do you consider Halle Berry’s kids as Black kids or White kids? How about Tiger’s Kids? How about Maya Randolph kids? When does the 1 drop rule no longer valid?
 
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R.I.P to him, his HS class was the 1st one I followed with Z-bo, D Miles, Gerald Wallace, Marcus Taylor, Deshawn Stevenson, the trio of NYC pgs in Omar Cook, Taliek Brown and Andre Barrett

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I went to school with him. Cool dude.
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Watching this draft you can tell hardly any of these players in the 1st rd are from the hood, the white boy Tyler Herro prolly the most hood in the 1st rd
 
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durham said:
On one end, its great that more Black people are doing well,

on the other end, basketball has turned into a club sport that requires TONS of developmental, training cash.
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Facts. Before we played each other at the park or gym, steel sharpening steel. Now these new kids don’t play pick up games, they only work out with their trainers and play in tourneys smh. So if you don’t have trainer money and a OG to scoop u up and sponsor u or train you himself, you become a park n rec legend
 

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