Especially as hip hop culture and the NBA started to intertwine.
It was the allure of seeing the hood success stories and the feeling like the NBA was made up of guys that we could relate to
Rich kids run basketball now
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Especially as hip hop culture and the NBA started to intertwine.
It was the allure of seeing the hood success stories and the feeling like the NBA was made up of guys that we could relate to
Illuminatos
#OVOXO
Those are the kids of Trevor Ariza, LeBron, Boozer, Melo, Gil etc. lol.
NAH ITS WEIRD BECAUSE
ITS THE PLAYERS WHO HAVE
ALREADY MADE HUNDREDS
OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS PUSHING
THEIR KIDS INTO THIS.
IT WAS USUALLY THE LOWER PAID
PLAYERS PUSHING THEIR KIDS
INTO THEIR SPORT.
THESE KIDS ARE ALREADY RICH AS fukk.
get these nets
Veteran
They were. Lot of the pros had kids who played college sports. D1 was just filled with better talent at the time, so they didn't get drafted.
In the modern era, the exceptional athletes from hood areas are getting derailed along the way more than before. So the sons of pros have a better shot at making the league and staying than before.
Damn, now a bunch of shyt is running through my mind, like I can't remember the last time I seen a video of somebody hooping on an outdoor court in the park. It is usually some state of the art gym nowadays
THIS THE DUDE THAT SAID
Marc Spector
the 4'11 Cuban
THis is lowkey cap and dont let cacs run with this narrative either. BY and large most American NBA nikkas are middle class at best. Zion, Ja, Bane, Josh Hart, Randle, Fox, Tatum, Brown, Booker, Adebayo, KAT, Edwards...the list goes on. What we are seeing more is NBA players whose parents were professional athletes but not NBA caliber.
MVike28
right around the ACC
france football is levels above
brehs came up in banlieues
america/north america is capitalism on steroids going down to kids sports
the fees are nuts
Trojan 24
Veteran
NAH ITS WEIRD BECAUSE
ITS THE PLAYERS WHO HAVE
ALREADY MADE HUNDREDS
OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS PUSHING
THEIR KIDS INTO THIS.
IT WAS USUALLY THE LOWER PAID
PLAYERS PUSHING THEIR KIDS
INTO THEIR SPORT.
THESE KIDS ARE ALREADY RICH AS fukk.
But I think that's why, financially you might as well give it a go and try to become pro since you have all the resources. If it doesn't work out you still rich, but if it does you might be able to make 3/4 times the amount your Pops did.
It's become the family business at this point. Just like Doctor's kids becoming Doctor's, same with lawyers and crehs on Wall Street
Cats were making millions in the 80s. That said, I was actually referring to the 90s and 00s.
I mean, kinda
Nowadays even if you are kinda nice off natural talent, by the time your 14/15 you have been completely outclassed by these AAU circuit kids already because they've been training and practicing around the clock so you aren't even good enough to look like you have a chance
The best shot you got if you haven't been in the circuit is if you hit a crazy growth spurt and end up 6'4" and up by the time you 15
Were they? The only player off top I know did was magic cuz he had like a weird 20 million/20 year deal
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
Literally no one said anything about the parentage makeup of homes
Yep, a legacy sport
I think it may have been last year or the year before where the majority of the first round picks had a parent or older sibling that either played pro or D1