04-23-2025, 05:35 AM
(04-23-2025, 04:11 AM)david75090 Wrote: Basketball appears to be color-blind. If you can play, you can play. Ball is ball. It's hard to hide a player who can play. No one is worried about color. Hope it's not the case that anyone in any kind of authority is factoring in skin-tone in player analysis.
Definitely not from a sporting perspective. But from a pure marketing standpoint I fear it could matter a lot, similar to foreign NBA players having a different marketability in their home countries than anybody else. So if Cooper becomes the first white American top 10 player or at least perennial allstar in forever he will have a clear USP, wouldn’t he?
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