re: Do you believe there are 100 Andre Johnsons walking around?

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Posted by Jcorye1
If the NBA thought they could play, they would probably be on a team or in the D league. I can buy a couple people slipping through the cracks, but I gotta think they have scouts at bigger rec games.

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There's tons of great athletes in the hood who were never eligible to play high school ball and thus were not recruited by colleges and thus were never even on the NBA's radar. The thing about basketball is even poor kids from the hood can train/practice basketball everyday, especially if they don't have school or jobs. That's not really the case with football and baseball where most practices need to be organized and paid for.

Baton Rouge has players that can almost hit their head on the rim, are fast, and can drain 3's.. That doesn't necessarily make them NBA material but I shudder to think what talents got left on the table in the larger cities.