NBA, the game that I love , NBA the reality that I hate.



NBA, the game that I love ,  NBA the reality that I hate.


It has been a while that this reality has been striking me, but I have to push it back. I Have tried so many times to speak my mind but we all know what it means to try to open the eyes of a volunteer blind. As Harriet Tubman said " I have freed thousand slaves,  I could have freed thousand more if only they knew  they were slaves". As strange as It could seems to a decent brain, trying to bring the truth to someone who has chosen to ignore the truth can get you killed. I'm writing this article because the truth must spoken.

In October 31, 1950, 21-year-old Earl Lloyd became the first African-American to play in an NBA game when he took the court in the season opener for the Washington capitols. Although Clifton was the first one to sing a NBA contract. A lot of newspapers were celebrating this news. In many of them you could see the line " NBA's color Line Is Broken". After those young that have paved the roads, so many things have happened.

In 2015, Wikipedia reports, that the NBA was composed of 74.4 percent of black players, 23.3 percent Caucasians players, 1.8 percent latinos, and 0.2 percent Asian. There's no doubt that the doors have been wide opened to our people. Why? Simply because our people are almost best in this activity? ( I will write an article on that too) but for now let's give to Cesar  what belongs to Cesar, the direct proof is the all star games. The last all-stars games have been 98% of African-american players. You have some doubts about that? Just take a look at the all-stars most voted players in New-Orleans 2014. you don't need to certify what your own eyes can see and certify. Sometimes recognizing the truth is the starting poing. The highest point has been reached with the 2016 NBA all-star, where you can see for yourself what I don't want to say.

 



          All-Starts Starters 2014

                 All-Stars Starters 2015


              All-Stars Starters 2015

The reality is here to see for who wants to see. Am I against having 100% black players in the NBA? No I' m not such a person, i have a point, so I want you to bear with me for few more lines. Take a close look  at these teams here.
   
   

I could be here trying to post as much as picture as I can but I think, you might be already able to get to my point. If not, just bear with me.
I love basketball, I play as an amateur, and I watch as much as I can any important to me NBA game, there, sometimes strike me hard. There´s a lot of strength, energy, blood shared on the floor. I could witness the greatness of this game, the excitement. But I couldn't miss this hard fact.
n most situation, you see 100% of the players on the floor being Blacks. Is it a problem? No, because they are the best.
So where is the problem?
In order for the cameraman to bring you into the games, at any great actions, the faces of the fans present were shown, then there I got strike harder.
NBA First row fans 





Image don’t lie and can’t lie, the reality that has been striking me, is that you can easily see 100 % of the players on the floor being black while the all first row was Caucasians, unless if we have some celebrities. I’m just wondering if my people cannot afford the first row, so I took a look in the second, third, fourth raw. In order to see our people, you have to go where the gam can almost not be seen.
So What has happened? What has Changed? Did the Caucasians left the floor to sit at courtside and watch us entertain them? Is it this reality? I know you that you’re reading this text you could be blind enough to refuse the reality but if you have been amazed by the game and failed to see the reality I want you to open your eyes and you could simply see what has been striking.  The game that we all love, is some sort of entertainment. A show where we share blood, energy to entertain people that possibly out there can easily shoot a young black that cannot afford a ticket to watch a game. And when it comes to NBA care? The faces of the children are almost colored. So my question, is which value are those famous black players adding to their own kind? Or are they just part of a system that themselves cannot understand.
Have I finished? Not yet...

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