Players who wouldn't be shit if not for sports?

[egokiller]

Let us take a moment to reflect on what some NBA players would be if not for the NBA or sports of any kind. By not looking at this with an open mind, you undervalue your role as a fan. Basically without NBA fans, there are some NBA players that would probably be dead or in prison. As fans, here are just some of the many that you as a fan may very well have saved their life. Granted, there are some rags to riches success stories where people from the hood came out and wound up being very intellegent, great people but these stories are rare.

Here are some guys that could very well owe you their life:

Derrik Rose - Worst hood in the USA

KG - charged with second-degree public lynching

Dennis Rodman - Trenton, NJ

Chris Andersen - Long Beach, CA...previously banned from the NBA for drugs

Lamar Odom - South Jamaica, NY

Ron Artest - Queensbridge, NY

Tyson Chandler - straight out of compton

Allen Iverson - grew up in Newport News, VA....bad place

LeBron James - grew up in the hood of Akron, OH

Eddie Jones - Hood of Pompano Beach Florida.

Carmelo is from West Baltimore.... nuff said.



And we haven't even gotten to the players from 3rd world countries that would still be poor living in their shithole. Just some of the many.

Didier “DJ” Ilunga-Mbenga
DeSagana Diop
Mouhammed “Saer” Sene
Cheikh Sam

[Real14]

Iverson could of been a rapper only. Melo could be the Crest toothpaste smile guy too.

[AirTupac]

DeAndre Jordan is a dumb moneky

[Lord P]

Charles Barkley's fat ass would be atleast 350+ if he didn't make it to the league

[Velocirap31]

It is probably easier to list the players that would be successful without sports.

[egokiller]

Charles Barkley's fat ass would be atleast 350+ if he didn't make it to the league

[antonAC]

with Lebron, and I'm a warriors fan so this aint no bran riding, I think the level of dedication, determination and focus he had kinda suggests he would have been more than just some massive dude in Akron.

you could really apply that to most of the players there, the mindset to make it at NBA level is rare, these are guys that have been giving up their lives in persuit of a goal that was a 1 in a million shot. sure most people have seen hoop dreams and what kids go through just to have a shot playing professionally, for every LJ or Carmelo there's 1,000 guys that just couldn't cut it.

except Iverson who just seemed blessed with talent despite not giving a shit.

[k0kakw0rld]

Charles Barkley's fat ass would be atleast 350+ if he didn't make it to the league

Show some respect to the 2nd greatest PF of all time.

[ClipperRevival]

Patrick Beverly - That dude is straight up from the gutters and all his friends are thugs. I thought he was a fake tough guy but after listening to his podcast with Woj, nope.

Jerry Stackhouse and Stephen Jackson - Both these guys loved to get into fights too much. In real life, they would've done something to someone.

Barkley - Yeah, that dude would've been dead of a heart attack by now if not for the NBA. Even when he was at Auburn, he ate nothing but terrible food. He was just blessed by the Gods with his athleticism that even when he was close to 300 lbs, he ran the court like a guard.

[DaHeezy]

JR Smith to me. You can barely understand the dude. I've seen an interview where he was speaking English and they still had to use subtitles

[K Xerxes]

I think Dennis Rodman could be a famous transvestite

[Smoke117]

Saying where guys are from and then automatically coming to the conclusion they would amount to nothing because of that is just pure prejudice bullshit.

[Bankaii]

Saying where guys are from and then automatically coming to the conclusion they would amount to nothing because of that is just pure prejudice bullshit.

This

[warriorfan]

ok fess up, who hacked smokes account?

[tpols]

either youre slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jumpshot
-Christopher wallace