Watching professional basketball next year is going to be really challenging for me, well for right now it look like it will not be NBA basketball next year because of the lockout. I think that since the lockout have alreay happened in football that is going to set alot of african american athletes back. If you take a look at how many black athletes are playing professional sports it will be alot of them. Playing sports is a way for many black athletes to get out of the sitituation that they are in. Now that the lockout is in process its going to be very hard for many african american to find a job.
The kids thats have nothing to enjoy but watching sports and playing it. Now that the lockout is going to occur is many kids are not going to have sports to foward to watching.
I do not believe the NBA lockout will affect any one, let alone Black kids, if it remained in effect. The current NBA players would not be missing out on anything but a few more million dollars. Boo hoo. The money that they current have can last them a lifetime if they know how to spend efficiently and save sufficiently (Antwon Walker). As for the youth that look to the game for guidance, I am sure the crime rate may increase a tad bit - but thats more like petty theft and burglary. The murder rate just is what it is, basketball or no basketball. And, again, basketball or no basketball, the same kids that were determined to make it to the big leagues prior to the lockout will continue to pursue their dream, regardless.
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