When to start playing basketball
What Age Is "Too Late" To Make It In Basketball? | Dre Baldwin
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drink Baldwin Dre allday.com
this video here is an answer to a
question I get in general very often
players ask me hey I'm filming a blank
whatever age they are they say is it too
late for me to become good at basketball
is it too way for me to play college
basketball this is too way for me to
possibly make it to the NBA because I
just started playing basketball and I'm
16 I'll just start playing it on 14 or
now I'm 17 or 22 is it too late to go
overseas I'm 25 is it too late to
planted college so everyone has a
fill-in-the-blank
age I've heard it from people who are 10
years old I heard from people who are 30
years old they all ask me the same thing
is it too weak the general answer to the
question is this no it is not too late
for you to do anything now let me go in
a little bit more detail with this it's
not too late for you to do anything
until until or unless you decide that
it's too late
any two people let's take the
hypothetical situation is it possible I
started playing basketball age 14 I'm
not asking as that possible in telling
the story I start playing basketball at
age 14 is it true hypothetically I know
you don't have to know these people is
it true - there are other people who at
the same time that I was 14 they started
playing basketball - and they gave up at
some point before they even got to age
21 or even before they got to age 18
because they figured it was too late for
them to become good is that true is it
true - their 14 year olds playing right
now who will give up before they turn 18
is it true - somebody watching this
video right now gave up on playing
basketball because they started at age
14 or younger even and gave up before
they got to age 21 because they figured
it was too late for them to get good yep
do you think just I guess a hypothetical
not a hypothetical guess but a
hypothesis do you think that's possible
probably so so there is no set number
there's no set number that says all
right if you start playing
this is or later you can't play in
college there is no number that
guarantees that there's no number that
says you started this a generator you
can't play in the NBA they're guys who
are playing in the pros the league
oversees NBA who start playing
basketball when they were 17 18 years
old I don't know who all them are but I
read these stories I had these stories
often that not everybody plays
basketball all these years
Akeem Olajuwon NBA Hall of Famer he
didn't start playing basketball till 8
or what most of us would consider late
quote-unquote because he was playing
soccer he was playing a different sport
Tim Duncan is another guy Tim Duncan was
a swimmer
he's from the Virgin Islands the US
Virgin Islands he was a swimmer the only
reason he started playing basketball is
because there was a hurricane it came
through his home town and destroyed the
swimming pool in his neighborhood so he
couldn't swim competitively anymore
because he didn't have a pool so he
started playing basketball and we know
what the rest of that story is so those
are two great examples two of the
greatest players of all those are two of
the top 50 players in the history of the
sport of basketball if they can start
late then you can start late doesn't
mean you're going to become a
hall-of-famer no but could it mean you
get a college scholarship or go play
ball in college and maybe go play
overseas for a year or two or 10 years
or 15 years is it possible absolutely so
it's never a point in life in anything
and I don't care we talking about being
an author I don't care we talking about
a schoolteacher being a rapper being a
basketball player there's never a point
in life where you reach a number a
number is just a number age ain't
nothing but a number there's a singer
named Aaliyah who passed away years ago
who had a song or album called aging
nothing but a number there's no number
that guarantees you can't do anything
and there's no number that guarantees
you can't just because you're 14 years
old you've been playing ball since she
was five doesn't guarantee you're gonna
become a pro you might not even make it
to college just because you're 14 and
you start playing with you at 13 doesn't
mean that you can you decide when it's
to eight each one of you who's watching
this video no one else decides for you
when anything is too late for you to do
you decide what's too late for you you
decided for nobody else nobody else
decides it for you and you don't have to
answer or think about whether it's too
late for somebody else to do anything
you need to think about what is to wait
for you to do anything and don't think
because you're a certain age whatever
you consider young that it guarantees
you're going to have success in the
future because it doesn't because guess
what I've been the ages that a lot of
you are and I've heard a lot of people
around me talking that oh I'm gonna do
this Annette when I get to that age and
most of them didn't do it because they
got someone satisfaction from talking
about it that they didn't have to take
the action they got more satisfaction
from talking that took away their drive
to actually go make it happen so i
really suggest you not talk about what
you're going to do in the future but
actually save up that energy and go do
it so to answer the question in general
is it ever too late to make it in
basketball because this is a question I
get a lot from basketball players know
it's never too late the only time it
becomes too late to make it in
basketball is when you decide that is to
wait for you it's not about what nobody
else did is not about this guy he
started at 17 it was too late for him
that's him that's not true that's what
that guy did his life ain't your life
and if there's another guy who was 14
and he made it and he became the
greatest player in history that'll mean
that's what you're going to become his
situation situation yours is yours you
got to focus on what you can do now what
anybody else did now when anybody else
might do or what you want to talk about
you might do what are you going to do
what are you going to do right now to
get yourself closer to where you want to
go and nobody else decides that for you
you decided for yourself work on your
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