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Go to the basketball hall of fame and almost all the old-timers were from NYC. Today, Carmelo fronts like he's from Red Hook, but he doesn't really count. The CHSAA with Christ the King, Bishop Loughlin, etc...used to be a top notch league nationwide, doubt that is still the case. I know it can't be that our kids are spending all their time in the library these days.
NYC should concentrate on producing intellectual talent, not athletic. And it has a hard enough time doing that.
Pro sports is a multi-billion dollar industry.
We are in a sports obsessed country.
...they surely need to do more of the former, but it's pointless to suggest they should shift focus from the latter.
To the OP:
As a former basketball player, NYC bball players have too many distractions, and they are too 'know it all'. NYC is the ultimate hype machine...
...and players will be treated and lauded as some basketball god before they make it to college. This has a tendency to inflate their egos, and make them lose the motivation to continue to improve on their games. It's horrible. No way in hell a city as large as NYC, with as much basketball is played in the city, shouldn't produce more elite talent.
Go to the basketball hall of fame and almost all the old-timers were from NYC. Today, Carmelo fronts like he's from Red Hook, but he doesn't really count. The CHSAA with Christ the King, Bishop Loughlin, etc...used to be a top notch league nationwide, doubt that is still the case. I know it can't be that our kids are spending all their time in the library these days.
Stupid question. All i see in todays NBA official leauge is "african american folk" who are chewing bubble gum with new white teeth set. And looking for blondes from MY country.
Go to the basketball hall of fame and almost all the old-timers were from NYC. Today, Carmelo fronts like he's from Red Hook, but he doesn't really count. The CHSAA with Christ the King, Bishop Loughlin, etc...used to be a top notch league nationwide, doubt that is still the case. I know it can't be that our kids are spending all their time in the library these days.
A New Yorker has a greater chance of becoming the President of the USA than getting drafted into the NBA straight out of college and if lucky High School. A kid from a poor neighborhood has a greater chance of getting into Harvard, Yale, Princeton than playing for the crappiest team the NBA has to offer. I only know of two guys from my area who made it into the NFL and MLB. I have known Rod Strickland who used to live in Mott Haven. NBA is a billion dollar industry and so much money and advertisement is involved. These owners don't really care much about players, but care about profits. Now in the NBA they are looking at overseas players like Mills who is an Aborginie from Australia, Manu Ginobli from Argentina or the Gasol brothers from Spain. They are a couple of players who are from NYC like Melo who plays for the Knicks. The big problem with NYC is that it does not produce much local talent anymore due to fierce competition regardless of athletics, arts, sciences, politics and so forth. From my observation much of NYC talent is not native to the city and it needs to be addressed. I can also put a blame on gentrification for helping to push talent away from NYC, but also attracting better talent which can eclipse local talent.
Last edited by Bronxguyanese; 07-31-2014 at 05:35 PM..
A New Yorker has a greater chance of becoming the President of the USA than getting drafted into the NBA straight out of college and if lucky High School. A kid from a poor neighborhood has a greater chance of getting into Harvard, Yale, Princeton than playing for the crappiest team the NBA has to offer. I only know of two guys from my area who made it into the NFL and MLB. I have known Rod Strickland who used to live in Mott Haven. NBA is a billion dollar industry and so much money and advertisement is involved. These owners don't really care much about players, but care about profits. Now in the NBA they are looking at overseas players like Mills who is an Aborginie from Australia, Manu Ginobli from Argentina or the Gasol brothers from Spain. They are a couple of players who are from NYC like Melo who plays for the Knicks. The big problem with NYC is that it does not produce much local talent anymore due to fierce competition regardless of athletics, arts, sciences, politics and so forth. From my observation much of NYC talent is not native to the city and it needs to be addressed. I can also put a blame on gentrification for helping to push talent away from NYC, but also attracting better talent which can eclipse local talent.
It's not really about the schools anymore. It's all about the AAU teams. So things have changed, the dynamics and people involved have changed. Also a lot of the better players don't necessarily stay in NYC. They might stay in an nyc high school for a year or two but then they go to a prep school.
New York city has not been able to produce a Lebron,Michael or Kobe.
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