Why is Basketball So Discriminatory?

Question

Why is Basketball Allowed to be So Discriminatory against Mexican Americans. Should there not be a Average heigth cap such as the salerary cap in other sports, so Mexicans Americans would have as much of a chance to play Basketball as Africans Americans

Answer 1

...... not to sound racist or ignorant... but I personally myself have never seen a spanish person play basketball............. and I live in south Florida..so its not because I dont live where the spanish people live...

Answer 2

Basketball is not discriminating to Mexican-Americans. It just so happens that they don't have the tallness that has come to be part of the sport. It's not fair to say BB is discriminating against MA, when -no offense, because i don't know- maybe it's just the fact that they are not as good of players as AM, or just americans in general. Think of baseball..... There were no blacks in the sport, until one guy broke the barrier.. BECAUSE HE WAS GREAT. It could end up happening in basketball to, just with Mexican Americans.

Answer 3

It is not discriminatory...Height is a HUGE advantage in basketball, but it is the not the end all and be all of basketball. Actually until Wang ZhiZhi and Yao Ming came into the league there wasn't a single asian that I knew about in the pro's or even Division I NCAA. But back to height, the shortest player ever was 5'3", Tyrone "Mugsy" Bogues. He had to work hard but he made it. Spud Webb could even dunk the ball at 5'7".

Answer 4

It's only discriminatory against skill. Height and race is not a factor in basketball. Look at Mugsy Bogues. Look at Yao Ming. Look at Jason Kidd. They all have skill.

Answer 5

Hold the boat there, captain. The first basketball players were white - jews mostly, from Harlem. They weren't necessarily tall, but it would seem that this is an advantage.

There are basketball teams in virtually every country now - they also have national teams.

There have been short black basketball players, like Spud Webb from Atlanta (?) which proves, that height is not necessarily a requirement.

Answer 6

Oh, please, what discrimination? It's not about where a player is from, but how well he plays. If a player has NBA-level skills, he has a chance. Teams won't care if he's from Mexico.

And Ashley, Pau Gasol from Spain, Eduardo Najara from Mexico, Carlos Arroyo from Puerto Rico, Manu Ginobili and Andrés Nocioni from Argentina, Anderson Varejao fro Brazil, and etc. If you're not seeing Spanish/Latino/Hispanic players in the NBA, you're not really watching the games, because there are quite a number of them currently playing in the league.

Answer 7

I guess I will be one of only a couple people to laugh...ha ha.

However, the gal right before me listed several of the Latin born players, in which soccer is the predominant sport in these countries. Basketball is about 5-10 years behind in most of the Latin-American countries (Argentina excluded) in comparison to Europe.

Answer 8

Ok, u are completly wrong....there is no discrimination what so ever, and even if this was true, u left asians out which proves u think only about mexicans and nobody else which shows ur partially racist, and there is no discrimination

Answer 9

I agree. Basketball is highly unfair. They will not let you score or touchdown or hit a homerun or make a hat trick in basketball. You can only bounce the ball or threw it through a hoop.

They should not discriminate, and should let us kick a field goal, or steal a base, or do whatever you wanted to do.

Answer 10

i don't think this was set up to keep Mexicans Americans from playing it'd just how the game have evolve

Answer 11

its not disrimination its who can and cant play! there are mexican american players. eduardo najera, jose berea, and then the ones from puerto rico and argentina and all them places! andre nocioni, manu ginobili, Fabricio Oberto and the list goes on!