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Big Marty

Years ago

Bonzi Wells is averaging 46.8 ppg...

When you're playing in a country with a booming (or WAS booming) economy with rich business only being interested in their team winning; money isn't a problem.

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MACDUB

Years ago

Yeah agreed to some extent. There is something like 326 division 1 basketball schools.
326 x 14(squad of around 14)
= 4564 athletes in total playing college basketball division 1 (approx.)

4500 (approx) is alot of division 1 basketball athletes. Very few of those make it to the professional ranks.

Here is some really interesting facts, perhaps going a bit off topic, but eye-opening none the less.

'Less than one in 75, or approximately 1.2 percent, of NCAA male senior basketball players will get drafted by a National Basketball Association (NBA) team.'
-taken from http://www.ncaa.org/research/prob_of_competing/probability_of_competing2.html#m_basketball

Also, this one is quite an amazing fact:
'Approximately three in 10,000, or approximately 0.03 percent of high school senior boys playing interscholastic basketball will eventually be drafted by an NBA team'

Take a look at all this data from:
http://www.thsrock.net/?q=node/306

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MACDUB

Years ago

'talentwise:

NBA - leagues above every other league.

Europe = College basketball.
NBL = D-League

CBA = American high school basketball'

Some of those comparisions are so far off it's crazy.
Europe is of much higher standard than College basketball. Imagine Anderson from CSKA Moscow going up against a college player-He would school him.
Also, I think the D-League teams would beat out NBL teams. You have to remember that some guys from those D-League teams are on the Frindge of an NBA Team. A guy like Morris Almond played D-League last year and now he is playing for Utah consistently. Agree that CBA is very weak on the International stage, but you're trying to compare it to American High School basketball. I think the comparision should be more like:
CBA= TOP american high school basketball teams
American high school basketball is overrated to some extent. Sure they can all play like mad. But people look at teams like Oak Hill and Montrose Christian and think that that is the standard right across the U.S, however those two teams are miles ahead of any other teams in the country.

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