McNabb says black QBs criticized more

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Originally Posted by WillH

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.

Good points here. The NBA is a profit maximizing business they are not going to spend tons of resources searching all over the world for ballers if there is enough "white" talent at home. It costs more is not practical.

That doesn't mean there is no racism involved in the NBA whether it be black or white, but it's not nearly to the extent as jsarno is claiming it to be. His friend seems to be an point of that case, or hell it could also be another reason we are not sure of. Alot of times good players just don't make it. It just happens. Bad luck or whatever.

Just because you hear about this kinda stuff here and there doesn't mean it is fact. Obviously in this case the sample size isn't even large enough to make an assessment of the entire US population. Therefore we have to fall back to the null assumption, which is that there are small amounts of racism all over the US, but not so much in major sports.(I take alot of Stat classes lol)