re: Officially done with the NFL & NBA

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Well it is quite obvious that you don't watch the NBA. Tpos? All of those cats want to be pretty boys nowadays. They are too worried about fashion than being thugs.

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True. The NBA did have a "thug" problem in the late 90s early to mid 2000s (See Denver Nuggets starting 5 w/ Melo, Iverson, Birdman, J.R. Smith) Part of that was because a lot of these kids were recruited from the Rucker Park-like playgrounds that were rough, and they came from hard places. That was basically before these kids started getting integrated into these AAU systems. Now these kids from these rough areas get out of the ghetto environment in a way, join up on an AAU team funded by some rich dick, and it basically helps them just be a ball player while getting them out of the ghetto, and its organized.

Just look at the top 50 or so HS players coming out each year. Almost all of them have played on an AAU team since freshman year of high school, they probably played for the U21 USA Basketball team. The system basically makes sure to keep track of all these kids so they get all the good ones instead of losing them to life situations, or losing them to a lack of structure.

I prefer the mid 90s era of basketball though. No social media bullshite, no gang banger look