♪alt13
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The funny thing is that the city has never been more full. It's just that the demographics have changed.
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865586964/Salt-Lake-County-has-tight-apartment-vacancy-rate-report-says.html?pg=all
The funny thing is that the city has never been more full. It's just that the demographics have changed.
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865586964/Salt-Lake-County-has-tight-apartment-vacancy-rate-report-says.html?pg=all
Come on Ty, Fashion Place is dope!
They have a Cheesecake Factory now!
Read that whole AMA. Was pretty hilarious generally.
I think if that's the perception it just shows how important drafting is for the Jazz. If the Jazz draft well, this player is in town for 9 years. Between 19 and 28 most NBA players accidentally or intentionally become fathers. If you draft two very good players and continue to draft well for position and add productive 3rd and 4th year players continually to the core lineup, you can attract guys from the outside. If not then they'll probably select a bigger city that either has already talent to compete in place or select a team where they can start one being "the man".
I think if that's the perception it just shows how important drafting is for the Jazz. If the Jazz draft well, this player is in town for 9 years. Between 19 and 28 most NBA players accidentally or intentionally become fathers. If you draft two very good players and continue to draft well for position and add productive 3rd and 4th year players continually to the core lineup, you can attract guys from the outside. If not then they'll probably select a bigger city that either has already talent to compete in place or select a team where they can start one being "the man".
QuinSnydersHair
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People, I'm going to be the voice for the AA community and say that black guys who grew up on the streets with other blacks don't wanna be surrounded by 75%+ white folk and less than 3% black folk. They want to be in cities that feel "familiar" to them. Cities they can relate to better, where they and their family fit in better. Cities where there is more to do. Much more to do. And ones where they don't have to freeze their asses off half the year.
The lack of objectivity on this board on this matter never ceases to amaze me.
The lack of objectivity on this board on this matter never ceases to amaze me.
Ahh, so that's why all the black players for the Warriors lived around E. 14th Street in Oakland instead of lily white Bay Farm Island...so they could be around all the brothers. Got it.
QuinSnydersHair
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I'm not sure of your tone here but if that was an honest attempt at an analogy it wasn't very good. Let's just have some honesty here. If I'm a single 22-23 year old first time free agent and I'm black and I can go live in a major city that's diverse where I feel comfortable, like I fit in, and where I can get laid daily because there are a lot of good clubs/bars and hot *** Latinas, whites and blacks, I'm living there. Not SLC where the drinking laws stink and where less than 3% of the population is black and white weird *** Mormons (the outsiders' generalization) walk the streets like it's Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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Pretty good choices. I would add in Green Street, Dimitris, banana joes, and Sandy Station.
Hooka bar is/was pretty cool too
Curry and Thompson are half white, how do they qualify?
Also you don't have to live in these "neighbourhoods" to sign sneakers at foot locker for them and have a brief chat.
I'm also quite positive some chicks from these neighbourhoods will try to dress pretty, get pregnant and negotiate custody as happily as Trey Burke sends them nude selfies...
It's more than ust SLC. It is all over Utah. In St. George you have to get a city permit to have a dance otherwise the cops shut you down.
To me it's belied by the fact that most of these players choose to live in neighborhoods that are the opposite of diverse. They are exclusive to the point where even most whitey's have no shot whatsoever in living there. And there are plenty of places in Oakland to live if you want diversity.
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It has less to with being around other minorities as it does having a vibrant nightlife and a scene worth being seen in. If all of SLC white women whored out like other big city ho's of any race, no one would be saying how boring SLC is and complain about diversity.