Basketball takes awful advantage of players, as it gives them false hope of making the pros.
An acquaintance of mine is a teacher in California (major, major progressive liberal, of course). She related to me a couple of times that a high percentage ("all of them" in her words) of middle and high school African American boys are somehow convinced that they do not need to study or learn, as they will be professional basketball players.
She continued that these are kids that can't even make J.V. reserves.
The NCAA and NBA must know of this massively shared pipe dream. Yet they do nothing.
Oh, and alleged black leaders? Where are they on this topic?
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How dumb do you have to be to not realize that only a small percentage of college basketball players will make it to the pros.