PS-No racist stuff either-I have many black friends who I treat just the same as whites because skin tone doesnt matter one bit- and have deep respect for them.
2006-06-13 18:07:51 · 7 answers · asked by ? 5 in Sports ➔ Basketball
Happyblossum your hate will eat you up inside.
2006-06-13 18:14:28 · update #1
its genetics. no one can argue that. most of our sports depend on quickness and speed, and the african race was blessed to have greater fast twitch muscles and endurance muscles due to the climate that they evolved in. i learned a bunch of this stuff in an anthropology class.
2006-06-13 18:12:02 · answer #1 · answered by Dan S 2 · 9⤊ 1⤋
It has to do with marketing and style of play. There are white suburbans that think they are ghetto and so they don't really care about team stats or assists. Basketball has been marketing itself as a ghetto hip hop culture even though I doubt most of these guys actually came from the ghetto and if they did, still lived there.
Then there is style of play. Take an all white team and an all black team. The black team wins 120-110. The black team has a guy that made 40 points, another that made 30 and 7 other players that scored the rest. The white team might have 5 guys that made 20 points and one guy that made 10 points. In the news, you would probably hear about the 2 black guys, but if you looked at the stats, if those guys got injured in the following game, the black team would probably loose. In pro basketball, you might have one or two guys that are fed the ball now because the rest of the team either sucks or that's how the coach set up the style of play (or allowed ball hogs).
2006-06-13 18:34:37 · answer #2 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer to this question may offend some but here is my theory. Blacks were once used as slaves and thier masters sought to breed the strongest. Also thie tribal culture of early blacks consisted of very physical people. Now over the generations they have become more athletic then other races. But again this is just a theory and not meant to offend.
2006-06-13 18:15:03 · answer #3 · answered by The Beast 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Chris Rock, "white slave owners used to breed the biggest and strongest slaves so they could make "super slaves." There is evidence of this today...like the NFL for example!" I'm paraphrasing.
Now this is just a guess, but blacks did NOT dominate certain sports because of obstacles such as economics or discrimination. For example, golf. It's cheaper to get 10 guys together at a park to play basketball than it is to buy a set of clubs and a country club membership.
2006-06-13 18:30:15 · answer #4 · answered by truthyness 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea why white guys don't play as well as the black players. Maybe it depends how you grow up and how you're taught the game. As for foreign players, Europe and South America has a total different way of playing basketball. It's not as individually oriented, it's faster, and foreigners have to work harder to get to the NBA, they go through years of European leagues.
2006-06-13 18:34:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea... because most white people in America live in the suburbs where they can be sucessful whereas blacks and europeans especially eastren europeans (Serbia, Russia) are poor and their only hope to get out of their poverty is to become a sports star so they practice alot.
2006-06-13 18:33:43 · answer #6 · answered by mr. jones 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is a good question. i dont know if there is a specific reason but most of what others said makes sense
2006-06-13 22:53:53 · answer #7 · answered by Michellee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋