Fri Jun 11, 2004, 04:56pm
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Re: Re: Demographics can be misleading
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Originally posted by Camron Rust
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Originally posted by rwest
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Originally posted by Camron Rust
Still, the majority of players across all levels (NCAA, HS, and Pros) track the demographics of the country.
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If by this you mean that sports reflect the demographics of the entire country, then I have to disagree. The white population is still the majority and yet the majority of players in the NBA are black. If the NBA followed demographics we see a great deal more whites in professional basketball. That does not bother me. I believe that the best players make it and that in general happen to be the black players.
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Basketball has the largest representation of black players of any major sport. If you add all of the athletes that play basketball together (NBA + NCAA + HS), the overwhelming majority are white. The NCAA stats were linked by someone above and over 50% were white across all the NCAA. The NBA is a majority black but the NBA has so few players they don't change the overall balance.
For HS, the numbers very highly reflect the individual communities...not precisely but in general. I haven't seen the HS numbers but they will dwarf the NCAA numbers just like the number of NCAA participants dwarf the number in the NBA. [/B]
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