A wintry year in “1891”. It’s getting cold, the weather is holding classes inside and young men need a active inside activity to keep up with while the weather is actively switching during winter months.
“To nothing to something”
There are two thousand seven hundred ymca’s today. There are many benefits within with this organization. Not only are they big with contributing and giving back they also serve a purpose. A simple breakdown of who the YMCA is. They stand with youth development, healthy living and social responsibility.
One day one YMCA center in Springfield, Massachusetts a educator by the name of “ James Naismith” was asked by the schools superintendent of physical education to create a game to keep young men active during the cold months of winter. Naismith was a teacher at the YMCA training center school. One of his scopes of practice was training adolescent men to become instructors at other YMCA centers. As the saying goes behind every man is a wise of a woman because with the help of his wife and childhood memories of throwing rocks at targets. As he pictured it, his blueprint came upon a game that is adored and loved by millions. Basketball.
It started with two baskets , peach baskets to be exact ten feet high above the ground and a soccer ball! The objective? Workmanship togetherness forming as a team to get the ball into the opposite basket while defending your team’s basket from the opposing team. There were also 13 rules and nine players on each team. But one crucial rule missing the sport being for everybody.
Blacksketball
Forwarding, the year is in the 1940s. A era where professional basketball wasn’t as popular nor as big as baseball, boxing and wow, college basketball. Also a problematic time for the sport. Not just with not being known but also being a time where segregation just like a play was set in place. Melanin poppin people weren’t allowed to go to the same schools, drink out the same fountains or be in the same public places as non colored. Fast forwarding ten years later you hear big black man names breaking barriers in the league like Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton, Charles Henry Cooper, and Earl Lloyd being the first black men to play on a court in the league. Bringing in change, black voices , and knowledge as Earl Lloyd went from playing college basketball, being a assistant coach for the Detroit Pistons, drafted to the military , coming back to the states, playing for nine seasons and retiring. Head up leveling up and becoming the first full time black assistant coach in the league. What a head turner ! Fashionable A S F !
(N)eed (B)lack (A)dmission
Now today you hear names like some of my personal favorites Lebron James, Steph Curry, Russel Westbrook, etc. Not only are they bringing the skills just like the ones before them on the court. They’re also bringing it with making sure black people are being heard and seen. Being knowledgeable with collaborating branding influencing as well starting their own brands. Look at the names mentioned above. They’ve also been eye catching with fashion style creating fashion sense making the National Basketball Administration “Fashionably Problematic”.
“Fashionably Problematic”
Before arena fashion it was just athletes pushing cameras out the way just to get in the locker room. Maybe even stopped for a interview just off of name status or how well how terrible played in a game. Or just a simple asking for comment and input by reporters from players.
However now the NBA has altered up, switched up their looks and I am not just talking skin tones. Yes, closets! Who you wearing? When I say black athletes have changed the balling off the courts too , just another reasoning why blacks are needed in the game, they make it look good. We always needed black admission. Just look how Lebron James steps inside the arena to the locker room. Always fashionably ready for whatever being the opposite team or camera ready. Those cameras always cling to him not just to see where his head is at mentally but also what is on his body physically. It influences the younger ones that look up to these men that their is hope, that they can do it too. Fashion is definitely more adored now than ever before.
“Sporting Looks”
“Win regardless”
The NBA has always been a head downer when your team loses a game, a heads up with keeping fans updated personally loved how they withheld those games in regards to “Jacob Blake”. It’s also a head turner with keeping your head going back and forth. Keeping up with game points and fashion looks. Just like the NBA you too should always dress your best be your best self and slam dunk every goal, every look or on every opponent not wanting to see you ball because ball is life. Right? The NBA is fashionably problematic. Keep it moving and keep it cute because when you don’t you could get called out on a foul that could stir up a technical.
(c)Fashionably Problematic
Fashionably Problematic 