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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PPA is primarily a program for upper middle class white players who are decent players but not on the level of Takeover, Durant, Warriors, etc.

If your player is white and looking to play at a higher level (major private high school or college basketball) I would encourage them to consider a tryout for different teams. Fairly or not, PPA players aren’t viewed as as serious players. [/quote]

This race stuff is weird.  My kid played on teams in NW and SE DC and PG county, and while he was sometimes the only white player on his team, he never encountered a team that was “for white players.”  What does that even mean?   Basketball is generally the least segregated environment on earth.  [/quote]

Uh, no it’s not. DS has also been the only white kid on a team. At the more elite levels there’s a bias towards Black players. [b]If you’re white you have to prove yourself more.[/b] At lower levels some coaches favor Black kids to give them more opportunity to grow. I get it. For some kids basketball is the ticket to colleges their families might otherwise not be able to afford.
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As an athletic 6’4” white kid with a good shooting stroke, my kid had to prove himself LESS than equivalently talented black players.  Seeing my kid jump and hit a couple of threes was all it took at tryouts for coaches to conclude that he was a great player, and they overlooked some weaknesses in his game that they shouldn’t have.  My kid got his first in-game dunk during a 15u AAU game, and it was striking how much more excited the coaches and even other parents were for him than for a black player on his team with a similar skill set who got his first dunk in a game the week before.  [/quote]

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