[jsarno]

Originally Posted by WillH

First of all no one said white people cant play basketball, someone said earlier that the reason there arent more white players is that the players that are better then them that made it to the NBA happen to be black.

Same difference. Funny...there are many white people in the HOF, and were around for many years...then they just disappeared???? Do you realize how foolish you sound with this?

Second of all if you admit that no team would sacrifice wins for racial prejudice, under that same line of reasoning it can be deduced that if there were white players with the same ability as their black counterparts in the NBA, that there would be someone taking these undervalued players and creating a dynasty out of them. Because under your line of reasoning white players are discriminated against and undervalued then a team could afford to pick up all of them and create an allstar team made of these players and sustain the team for a long time due to the small contracts they would have to pay them...Sounds foolproof, I say you go and pitch this idea to an owner of an NBA team, you'll be a legend!

No...what you are failing to realize that when you are racist, you BELEIVE what you are thinking. So if you BELEIVE white people are not as good as black people, those white people don't get a chance. Therefore they select a different career.
So are you telling me black people aren't as smart as white people? If this is untrue (and I beleive it to be untrue) then why do colleges have a "quota" for black people? It's because they supposedly weren't given the opportunity to learn like the white people have. Just like the white people don't get the same opportunities as black people do.

The fact is that the NBA gathers all the best players it can find no matter what race they are or what country they come from. You really think that the NBA scouts would go out of their way to recruit people from Russia or China or whatever the fu*% else small hole in the wall country and at the same time neglect to recruit some of the best players from america because they think "white people can't jump?"

YES. Just like baseball does more recruiting in latin america than in small towns in the USA.
But again, if the white people aren't given the opportunity, why bother?

This is shear ignorance!

Yes it is...you have been quite ignorant in thinking basketball is not racist. You chalk it up to "they are better". Well who is to say those white qb's aren't better? Come on man...racism is racism. Just because a person is black does not make him a better athlete.

Just because you have a friend that you expected to make the pros and he wasn't given the respect YOU THINK he deserved does not prove that their is an over-arching bias against white basketball players.

How many times do I have to correct people? I didn't say anything about the pros, I said he was the #1 high school player in Florida and was not offered a scholoarship anywhere. This is not up for debate, this is fact...how do you explain that? What if a black person was ranked #1 in the state...how many colleges do you think would be drooling over him? I m done with this conversation because it is going no where. Unfortunately you can't take racism out of certain people. I feel for you.

Just as in this McNabb situation, I am sure there are some ignorant black folk that will scoff at a white basketball player on the black top, but overall any player worthy of recognition is given it, and given an opportunity no matter what their race is.

Not in basketball...there have been thousands of documented cases.

Back to the point...McNabb is not being scrutinized due to race...end of story.