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What does hometown mean? Where they were born or where they started playing?
It's also not clear if this is a metro level measure...If not, you have places like Jacksonville FL and its 875 miles of city and suburbs comparing to smaller places like DC's very restrictive 60 square miles, excluding many other metro-level contributors.
Also, it's kind of sloppy to list NY, NY and then the other boroughs. It should be Manhattan.
What does hometown mean? Where they were born or where they started playing?
It's also not clear if this is a metro level measure...If not, you have places like Jacksonville FL and its 875 miles of city and suburbs comparing to smaller places like DC's very restrictive 60 square miles, excluding many other metro-level contributors.
Also, it's kind of sloppy to list NY, NY and then the other boroughs. It should be Manhattan.
Hometown is where you were born or raised. It list DC, Upper Marlboro, Bowie and Baltimore separately so it is apparent that it is a list of cities not metro areas.
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Your links aren't proving your statement.
Your link didn't either it breaks up metro areas and even had two separate towns in PG County as their own "cities". These are towns with maybe 40,000 residents max each with 12 ball players hailing from them.
Let me put it this way, from 2007-2009 in PG County, MD alone there were more highly recruited bball players than any other state in the entire country other than California. Thats just ONE county in the entire metro area of DC. Meaning if your a metro area that's larger than DC, your probably not going to match that per capita. If it's a metro area smaller than DC's it would have to be insane numbers of athletes to match also.
Your link didn't either it breaks up metro areas and even had two separate towns in PG County as their own "cities". These are towns with maybe 40,000 residents max each with 12 ball players hailing from them.
Let me put it this way, from 2007-2009 in PG County, MD alone there were more highly recruited bball players than any other state in the entire country other than California. Thats just ONE county in the entire metro area of DC. Meaning if your a metro area that's larger than DC, your probably not going to match that per capita. If it's a metro area smaller than DC's it would have to be insane numbers of athletes to match also.
You are cherry picking dates from nearly a decade ago. If you look at 2017 top 100 /150 high school basketball players, GA and CA are killing it in terms of highly sought after basketball recruits. I would venture to say that Indiana's top basketball recruit per capita rivals or best that Maryland even if you include Washington, D.C.
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You are cherry picking dates from nearly a decade ago. If you look at 2017 top 100 /150 high school basketball players, GA and CA are killing it in terms of highly sought after basketball recruits. I would venture to say that Indiana's top basketball recruit per capita rivals or best that Maryland even if you include Washington, D.C.
You must have missed my other clear posts with links that show the states with highest number and percentage of D1 athletes. These links were as recent as this year. Look this whole thread has nothing to knock any particular city for NOT producing talent, it's about which city/metro is tops. I'm talking about longevity not one year.
Your statement about vs Indianapolis is factually incorrect with regards comparing to DC or Maryland:
Before NYC people get mad, What NYC basketball player has been good in the NBA in the last 15 years? Lance Stephenson? Telfair? Nah.
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