NBA: White American players..

[apalisoc_9]

I know he owned his own car wash, but in a bad neighborhood. And you know how he died. He took one last car wash, which he was the one washing the car, when it was closing time and he should have left to join his son for his BB game. He got shot in the process.

Even Kawhi said, it was that hard-working mentality his father instill in him is why he is the player and man today. That was the one thing Kawhi said he always admired about his father.

So no, he wasn't a suit and tie guy over even a guy who owned and ran a chain of car washes. He was a guy that owned his own car wash and washed a lot of those cars himself for a living. I respect any man that puts in a hard honest day's work to feed and better his family no matter his station.

So bexause his line of work was not suit and tie that's suppose to mean Basketball was the only way out of kawhi in terms of financial success.?

This is by far one of dumbest mentality I have read in ST.

you either make good money or you don't...According to News, his dad was making good cash...The same way some successful small business owners made good cash.

Newsflash, you don't need a suit and tie to be making OK enough money to live decently...Some of the maintenance business owners here make about 60k a year and they too have to do maintenance every now then..

[Cowboys_Wear_Spurs]

So bexause his line of work was not suit and tie that's suppose to mean Basketball was the only way out of kawhi in terms of financial success.?

This is by far one of dumbest mentality I have read in ST.

you either make good money or you don't...According to News, his dad was making good cash...The same way some successful small business owners made good cash.

Newsflash, you don't need a suit and tie to be making OK enough money to live decently...Some of the maintenance business owners here make about 60k a year and they too have to do maintenance every now then..

No, and obvious you can read between the lines. When your dad has money and just gives you stuff your whole life, you tend not to be appreciative.

60k is hardly nothing in Southern California. It's not like Kawhi was rich. He came from a HARD WORKING family where they appreciate what was given to them. You miss the underlying gist. Its not being des ute that makes you a great BB player, it the values and character that are instilled in one's self to want to better their station.

His father would work 12-14 hours a day. I make much more than 60K working much less. Kawhi, in his college interviews, alway noted how hard his father would work. But when daddy has a cushioned executive job making 3-5x times that, and you are afforded much more early in life, you aren't going to be instilled with character.

Just look at Durant and his MVP speech. His story is what a lot of Black NBA players go through. It's not stupid, it human nature for people to want to better their station, which is why Kawhi's father worked so hard. This nation was founded on that very concept and in just a 150 years or so of existence became the greatest nation on this earth.

But when you got it good too young, you don't have the same drive as someone who hasn't. Kawhi probably had a decent living, but he witnessed a father working extremely hard to provide him that living, which in turn made him appreciate and put that same effort in his endeavors.

White American Men, which I agree with Infinite, for the most part have an easy life since childhood. Majority of professional positions in this country are occupied by White American men, that is a fact. And from my own experience, most of them don't have the drive that people from hardworking families have.

Look at Colt McCoy. Had his dad, seriously, his dad call an NFL team about his treatment. Like I said, a sense of en lement instead going out there and putting the effort in and taking it.

And the OP said baseball is mostly white American players. Yeah, from redneck players too from the South and other places. Guys from hard working family as well. That why poor countries like Dominican republic and such have so many great baseball player as well. Sports is an avenue for many of these people to better their station.

[elbamba]

Outside of Korver and Love..I can't seem to think of any decent white american player.

It's either black or a euro.

Gordon Hayward and Chandler Parsons are good. JJ Red has been scoring like crazy lately. Hinrich, Hawes, Kaman, and Hansbrough are no all-stars but they are serviceable players.

[DMC]

White kids don't aspire to become NBA players. You don't have every white kid in the neighborhood hanging out at the courts, playing from morning till 10pm to keep from dealing with home life. Every black boy in the US wants to be an NBA player, all of them.

On that note, I haven't seen a lot of black heart surgeons or astronauts. They exist, but not many of them.

[m>s]

Started to say splitter but I forgot about it being strictly american wgite players. What about kevin love, Ryan Andersen, David lee etc

[Clipper Nation]

Hinrich, Hawes, Kaman, and Hansbrough are no all-stars but they are serviceable players.

WTF? Hawes is one of the worst players in the league. Don't be fooled by the stats he put up on awful teams with zero pressure to produce.

[m>s]

Dumb to make american whites a specific category, how many Nigerian blacks are there in the nba anyway? I guess the reason america produce less white players is because of poor racial hygiene

>america
>white

[Stalin]

Dumb to make american whites a specific category, how many Nigerian blacks are there in the nba anyway? I guess the reason america produce less white players is because of poor racial hygiene

>america
>white

[Malik Hairston]

this thread isn't about taking shots at Whites, relax..It's a serious question..

Same thing can be asked about Baseball and Blacks..

[Malik Hairston]

JJ Re , Kyle Korver, David Lee

the 90s full of White Americans