Contributors of talent to professional sports: Dallas, Houston, or Miami? (best, state)
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Contributors of talent to professional sports: Dallas, Houston, or Miami?
Use MSAs as the standard for each place. So talent coming from any of their suburbs, satellites, or sister cities within the metropolitan region is perfectly fine for this thread as long as it is within the MSA.
1. Contributed the most talent to the MLB?
2. Contributed the most talent to the NBA?
3. Contributed the most talent to the NFL?
4. Contributed the most talent to the NHL?
5. Contributed the most talent to the MLS?
6. Contributed the most talent to the Summer Olympics?
7. Contributed the most talent to the Winter Olympics?
8. Acquires the most talent for college sports programs?
Also feel welcome in discussing some of the most talented athletes to have come from any of these metropolitan regions and/or their legacies and achievements.
1. Contributed the most talent to the MLB? Dallas?
2. Contributed the most talent to the NBA? Dallas
3. Contributed the most talent to the NFL? Miami
4. Contributed the most talent to the NHL? Dallas?
5. Contributed the most talent to the MLS? Dallas
6. Contributed the most talent to the Summer Olympics? Miami
7. Contributed the most talent to the Winter Olympics? Miami
8. Acquires the most talent for college sports programs? Miami
As a Ex-College Basketball player, I'd say Dallas's Basketball scene is very underrated, the Football there overshadows it. I will also say, in terms of Football talent, no one's beating Miami out of this three.
1. Contributed the most talent to the MLB? Dallas?
2. Contributed the most talent to the NBA? Dallas
3. Contributed the most talent to the NFL? Miami
4. Contributed the most talent to the NHL? Dallas?
5. Contributed the most talent to the MLS? Dallas
6. Contributed the most talent to the Summer Olympics? Miami
7. Contributed the most talent to the Winter Olympics? Miami
8. Acquires the most talent for college sports programs? Miami
As a Ex-College Basketball player, I'd say Dallas's Basketball scene is very underrated, the Football there overshadows it. I will also say, in terms of Football talent, no one's beating Miami out of this three.
Dallas’s basketball scene is top-notch. Cities without a strong football culture (NYC) are falling behind on hoops. Some theorize it has something to do with non-football schools having poor strength programs. Right now, Chicago is the only cold weather city making strong contributions to basketball.
Dallas basketball talent is underrated. A number of NBA players come out of DFW. Spudd Webb, Dennis Rodman, Mookie Blaylock, Lamarcus Alridge, Julius Randle, Chris Bosh and Kenyon Martin just to name a few.
The winningest boys basketball coach in America, Robert Hughes, also comes from the area. He won 1,333 games in a 47-year coaching career at two Fort Worth high schools, segregation-era and now closed I.M. Terrell, and Paul L. Dunbar. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017.
Can we just take the NHL out of this discussion? Toronto and Montreal have a lock in this. Any southern American city is just providing the crumbs of crumbs.
Dallas’s basketball scene is top-notch. Cities without a strong football culture (NYC) are falling behind on hoops. Some theorize it has something to do with non-football schools having poor strength programs. Right now, Chicago is the only cold weather city making strong contributions to basketball.
I wouldn't go that far given some of the talent coming up from the NYC area(Cole Anthony, Jalen Lecque, Jahvon Quinerly, etc.) and actually from other parts of NY State in general right now in the HS ranks and some of the players from the NYC area currently in the NBA, but I digress...
In terms of MLB, I think Houston is the best out of the 3(think Roger Clemens and Nolan Ryan).
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