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Message: [QUOTE="Kenny11, post: 4394509, member: 7303"] I am not saying all the kids are from wealthy families (though they are better off than previous generations of NBA players) but there is a high percentage of them with D1 or pro athletes who are their parents. A USA today article from 2016 had 49% of nba players that fit this description and it has only grown since then. There was another article I believe from The Athletic which talked about this more recently. People around the game more than me say the same things in what they are seeing. And it isn't just the fathers. A lot of these kids have mothers that were elite athletes. Watch the NBA draft. Every year there are stories about this mentioned. I'm not saying basketball has turned into golf lol...but the top kids are generally not from rough impoverished backgrounds since the DWade, Lebron generation. Anyone who played AAU in the 90's or early 2000's can see that the kids today have much better structured situations on average. [/QUOTE]