{"id":43,"date":"2008-02-17T09:53:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T15:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/2008\/02\/17\/is-the-nba-an-urban-league\/"},"modified":"2008-02-17T18:47:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T00:47:28","slug":"is-the-nba-an-urban-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/02\/17\/is-the-nba-an-urban-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the NBA an &#8220;Urban&#8221; League?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reviewing an <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espnmag\/story?id=3243679\">ESPN report<\/a> on the hometowns of professional basketball players, demographer William Frey of the Brookings Institution concluded that the &#8220;NBA is much more of a suburban population than most would have thought.&#8221; The average player hails from a city that is 59% white, which is significantly lower than the nation as a whole. On other dimensions, however,\u00a0NBA players&#8217;\u00a0hometowns are quite comparable to U.S. averages: their average population is 112,017, 79% of their adult residents have a high school degree, and their average income is $38,127. Professor Frey\u00a0concludes,\u00a0&#8220;there&#8217;s a broad spectrum of areas the players come from, and a significant number come from white, middle class suburbs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reviewing an ESPN report on the hometowns of professional basketball players, demographer William Frey of the Brookings Institution concluded that the &#8220;NBA is much more of a suburban population than most would have thought.&#8221; The average player hails from a city that is 59% white, which is significantly lower than the nation as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[135,108],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-demography","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}