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Originally Posted by jsarno
When did I say that NFL teams are discriminating against white people? I didn't say that, nor did I insinuate that. Curious as to how you even came to that conclusion.
Well, I'm afraid you couldn't be more wrong. He was ranked #1 in the STATE. Pretty darn convincing if you ask me. Maybe I wasn't specific enough cause you used Lavar as an example, but he was ranked #1 in the state as a basketball player. For as much as people would like to think that racism doesn't exist in basketball, it's by far the most racist sport in the world. Look at the guy here that said that black basketball players are just better than white players...and oddly enough no one cared to say anything about it. It's simply not true. White people don't get the opportunity that black people do to play basketball, and it starts in high school. You can't tell me that there aren't white people out there that can play. How did the 86 celtics win it all with Bird, McHale, Ainge, and Walton (all white)?
I 100% agree with you.
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Wow I dont even know why I am going to bother with this, but I feel compelled so here it gos.
First of all no one said white people cant play basketball, someone said earlier that the reason there arent more white players is that the players that are better then them that made it to the NBA happen to be black.
Second of all if you admit that no team would sacrifice wins for racial prejudice, under that same line of reasoning it can be deduced that if there were white players with the same ability as their black counterparts in the NBA, that there would be someone taking these undervalued players and creating a dynasty out of them. Because under your line of reasoning white players are discriminated against and undervalued then a team could afford to pick up all of them and create an allstar team made of these players and sustain the team for a long time due to the small contracts they would have to pay them...Sounds foolproof, I say you go and pitch this idea to an owner of an NBA team, you'll be a legend!
The fact is that the NBA gathers all the best players it can find no matter what race they are or what country they come from. You really think that the NBA scouts would go out of their way to recruit people from Russia or China or whatever the fu*% else small hole in the wall country and at the same time neglect to recruit some of the best players from america because they think "white people can't jump?"
This is shear ignorance!
Just because you have a friend that you expected to make the pros and he wasn't given the respect YOU THINK he deserved does not prove that their is an over-arching bias against white basketball players.
Just as in this McNabb situation, I am sure there are some ignorant black folk that will scoff at a white basketball player on the black top, but overall any player worthy of recognition is given it, and given an opportunity no matter what their race is.