The Success and Longevity of Immigrant National Basketball Association Players

The Success and Longevity of Immigrant National Basketball Association Players

Introduction

Basketball is considered as one of the most popular sports all around the United States. The National basketball Championship prides itself on enlisting players from everywhere around the globe. In fact, to be precise, 400 players from 36 nations were listed in NBA to compete in the championships. A large number of these players who have come around the world and have competed in NBA have become legends in the game. They set a positive example for NBA players from everywhere in the world and demonstrate that athletes who are not US residents can reach the heights of successes in US.

Professional sports leagues like NBA remain enthusiastic and has certain missions to gather and explore the worldwide talent. The journey for local talent has ended up when the hunt for the talent goes worldwide, reshaping the universal limits of games by focusing on the younger international players instead of finding aged local players. NBA, particularly in 2003 drafted specifically and epitomizes the expanded globalization of games that did not happen in the history that NBA have such a variety of foreign players that have been immigrated to United States.

Subsequently the rush of different players towards US, made the people to think about the law of colonization in the country. National Basketball Association players, such as Jeremy Lin, whose initial career was exciting but later on he was side lined because of the seasonal injury. There are many examples of such NBA players both local and foreigner who started their career with brilliance but they were side lined. The study would particularly approaches to analyze the carriers of US resident NBA players and the foreign immigrant NBA players. The past studies and data suggests that the foreign NBA players are quite impressive and their careers are expectedly more than that of US local players. The focus of the study will remain on the social and economic benefits that a country obtains through the migration of athletes especially in US. The growth rate and number of immigrants will be the major results, which would predict that there should be an increase or decrease in the numbers of foreign NBA athletes.

Literature review

Global migration is a community pattern that goes across national limitations and which impacts two or more nation-states. Its research need principles and strategies that are certainly capable of transcending the national look (Victor, Sanders & Scott, 1994). Immigrant workers and business owners are improving everyday living in metropolises and the growth of immigrant community and their economical techniques has significantly customized the city scenery (William, 2009).

Immigrant areas in US, their associated community and their economical techniques appear to be known worldwide because they include highly noticeable ethno-cultural groups, but this impact may be incorrect (Alejandro & Min, 1993). Korea town in Los Angeles, for example, is particularly focused just west of town center, but Japanese oriented companies and homes are propagating ...