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WHERE THEY COME FROM

By Tommy Craggs

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

The NBA, according to the sort of wisdom dispensed by sports-radio callers—to say nothing of the hosts—is an "urban" league stocked with kids sprung from the country's roiling inner-city wastelands. But after plowing through NBA rosters, we came to a different conclusion: The typical incubator of NBA talent is less Chicago's Cabrini-Green and more Alexandria, Va., from where Magic swingman Keith Bogans hails. In fact, when we ran our research findings by William Frey, a demographe ...

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