myespn.go.com - 11/29/2007
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Jason Gurney of Ballhype did a fancy little thing with Google Maps that plots the birthplace of every single NBA player. You can also sort by team. The big lesson? I was shocked by this, to be honest. Roll through all thirty teams one by one, every single team has just one part of the world where the main concentration of their players come from. And for every single team, that cluster is ...
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Seattle Hoops Represent!
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... Ballhype, Jason created a Google Maps mashup that shows the birthplace of every NBA player. Is Seattle represented? Yes, oh yes. Seven players are born in Seattle. That, ladies and gentleman, is more than any single city north of Los Angeles (14) or west of Dallas (9). San Francisco proper has as many NBAers (1--Jason Kidd) as Edmonds (Martell Webster). Ha! Eat our dust, Golden Gaters! Overall, 10 NBAers were born in Washington state. Hat tip: True Hoop.
A U.S. State Expansion On...Where Are NBA Players From?
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... Henry Abbott of TrueHoop was shocked that the distribution of players, team by team, was heavily concentrated east of the Mississippi River. ...
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