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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
Encourage youth players to keep studying

This Sunday morning, the reflexions are about youth basketball... I think that the best youth coach is who encourage players to keep studying, by showing them, for example, that even if they are the best player in their high school, their chances of getting in the first level (NBA, Euroleague....) are still less than 1%.

Therefore we need to think a little... How many players are in the NBA ? And how many players join the NBA each year ?

Photograph: Fernando Medina from Orlando Magic

Let make numbers:
In the NBA there is 29 NBA teams with 15 players per team and a total of 435 per year.
We have 1,200 colleges teams with 10-15 players per team and a total of 18,000 per year: the chance stands on 41-1.
In the 25,000 high schools team with 10-15 players per team and a total of 375,000 per year: the chance, 862-1.

Stay in school and study hard is the message, because the numbers are not good for any player to make it to the NBA. Ana take in account that this numbers are theoretically based on every NBA place being open... not likely in any given year. Let say that each NBA team has two new players per year, then the chance for a high school player go up to 6250-1. Is it clear ? Thoughts ?

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