They have tattoos and cornrows, they wear bling blings and loose clothings and baseball caps like some gangsta rapper from da hood.
they fight each other and sucker punch each other, they have guns and drugs in their possession.
They trash talk and do stupid taunts when they dunk on others, they produce rap albums talking about balling and live in the ghetto, why isnt this happening to other sport leagues?
2006-12-21 13:30:13 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Basketball
A lot of these players grew up in an environment where this behavior was not at all questioned. Now they are superstarts playing basketball and most of them never knew any other way. We do see this in other sports from all of the taunting and fights in football- we might not see the tatoos, etc because of their pads and hockey every night we see fights. I think that a lot of this behavior is just because they know nothing else.
2006-12-22 07:00:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just for the record, the NBA now has a dress code - so the baggy clothes and Caps is no longer.
2006-12-22 00:42:03 · answer #2 · answered by psiclne 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They all lived in the projects and the ones that didnt dont act all "gangsta" like Vince Carter
2006-12-21 21:54:57 · answer #3 · answered by theoneandonly4251 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because, if you look at it, they mostly come from poor, rat hole neighborhoods and that's all they know! They're poor ignorant people who are VERY overpaid and think they are above the rest of us! But, I'd bet ya, if they weren't playing basketball for a living they wouldn't even survive in a regular job in the REAL world!! Most of them would be in jail for robbing, stealing or selling crack!!
2006-12-21 21:52:02 · answer #4 · answered by Franco 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because it's a predominantly black sport. that's what most black guys think makes a man (being ghetto, wearing bling and dealing drugs)
2006-12-21 21:38:20 · answer #5 · answered by Bubbles 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to realize most NBA players come from the hood, and they do stuff like the people in their community.
GOD BLESS
2006-12-21 22:06:00 · answer #6 · answered by datjpkid 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is happening in other leagues..you just dont know about it cause all the attention is on the nba and nfl cause it mostly black...i bet the mlb and nhl is full of drug addicts and wife beaters
2006-12-21 23:33:42 · answer #7 · answered by cutiepy983 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
man this is a dumbass question u talkin bout cornrows and **** and u got white ppl wearing cornrows and u got fightin...fightin is in alot of sports fightin is in hockey and thats a white sport so u gone call them gangstas i swear u jus a dumbass racist
2006-12-22 00:32:56 · answer #8 · answered by sandridge_soldier09 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ONLY SOME PLAYERS. I CAN NAME A BUNCH OF OTHER PLAYERS THAT ARE NOT LIKE THAT.
2006-12-22 15:37:32 · answer #9 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Their parents didn't hug them enough when they were kids.
2006-12-21 21:59:19 · answer #10 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋