Do the Right Thing
NBA - Americanismi e Streetculture
September 18th, 2013
The universe NBA is a special world, populated by extraordinary athletes, but dominated by African-Americans. Most of these athletes comes from the street, few or none have both parents, many lives are living on the edge, respecting only the street-code and little else; and with this background and with the consent of the time, thanks to their incredible talent and charisma that African Americans begin to become idols, to be acclaimed and imitated.
The spreading of hip-hop accentuate a "way of being" that finally escapes from the ghetto to spread like wildfire across the nation. Then come the 90s and a real natural magnet pounced on the NBA: his name is Michael Jeffrey Jordan.
Maybe is too simple to start everything from Michael, even before he knew how the players make themselves known to the outside of the buildings (Chamberlain changed a white-girl every night, and maybe even more than one), but grant us to attribute the NBA Fashion for her Majesty Jordan.
Let's start from here, but there are enough stories, we have to tell people, real mode to understand, analyze screw: it goes from Air to Allen I, by Spike Lee to Jack Nicholson, from Brooklyn to the Golden State to the rediscovery of a sport that is a crazy business and could spread in a single country in the world: the United States of America.