ARTICLE FROM denverpost.com (Full story click here)

The other day I was looking for articles for posting on “Sports Inner City Online” and found this very interesting article regarding my home town Seattle and Denver when it comes to producing NBA players.

For you sports fans who do not know, the Seattle area has produced a lot of NBA players the last ten or so years like my Jamal Crawford, Nate Robinson, Jason “The Jet” Terry and Brandon Roy to name a few. It is amazing how many NBA players are in the NBA from here in Seattle.

When you ask folks why this is happening they point to better AAU leagues and better coaching starting when kids are as young as ten or eleven. And cats like Crawford and Terry are also giving back to the community by sponsoring youth basketball camps and teams.

These kids here in Seattle see their idols on TV from their city like Crawford and Terry and Spencer Hawes and Rodney Stuckey and they want to be just like them. You see kids all over the “inner city” walking and bouncing their basketball heading to the gym or park.

Sorry to say young African American kids in the Seattle/Tacoma, Washington area are playing basketball and not baseball. They are playing football but for some reason are not producing NFL players.

People in other cities like Denver are wondering what in the hell is going on with all these players from Seattle and hardly any from their city. What is going on?

Look out for more NBA Seattle/Tacoma area players like Isaiah Thomas and Tony Wroten Jr. and others. Their will be more players in the NBA from the hot bed of producing NBA players, Seattle, Washington.    Gordon Curvey

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