ously gifted athlete. He is breaking records right now, as we speak. He has no need to go back to school; he is already financially set for life, and he is one of the greatest athletes, as a person to walk the earth. Anyone who says you must go to college to be the best at what you do, including life, could find exception to Tiger Woods. When you look at today’s urban neighborhoods, you think of one thing, Young black children, on the playground, playing basketball. Today’s black youth see the NBA players, which are eighty percent black, and see their older brothers and sisters and friends playing America’s urban game, basketball. Most of these kids have less than adequate incomes in their homes. They either come from single income homes, or broken homes, or no homes at all. Why would the money a fame of the NBA not be appealing to them? Most of these kids see it as their only way out of where they are. They can take themselves as well as their family out of the area they live in. Everyday, they play on the streets, after school, or practice, just to be better than their neighbor, or try to replicate the latest move applied by Allen Iverson. This is where we find our youth relying on false dreams. They believe that basketball is their only way out of their current lifestyle. They would put anything on hold, just to be in the NBA, making better of themselves, living the American dream. So many athletes today think that they have what it takes, but they have no clue what the mental capacity has to be for an NBA star, balancing time for their job, their family, dealing with the media and losing their personal lives. Once these kids realize, or harshly find out that they are not good enough to be in the NBA, or even on a college level, they know no other way. They have a choice to either give up, or to find something else they excel at. America hopes that these young people know there is more out there f...
