As the best basketball league in the world, it’s no easy feat to make it to the NBA. Even for the players that do make it via the draft, the majority of them are out of the league within a few years. Not only does it speak to the level of talent it takes to make the league, but it also speaks to the level of difficulty to make a roster of the best in the world.
But if you ask notorious hip-hop star Karim Kharbouch (better known as French Montana), he’ll tell you that making the NBA pales in comparison to the difficulty of making it as a rapper.
“It’s like, you better off making it in the NBA than making it in hip-hop,” Montana said. “NBA, what they got, twenty-eight teams? Fifteen players on every team. You’re talkin’ about hip hop? You can’t even name ten people that’s hot every couple months. The odds is — anybody could do it if it was easy. So, you’re talkin’ about tryin’ to make it? The hustle gotta be relentless. Can’t take no for an answer (via SportsKeeda).”
French Montana believes making the NBA is easier than being a rapper
“NBA, what they got, twenty-eight teams? Fifteen players on every team. You’re talking about hip hop? You can’t even name ten people that’s hot every couple months.” pic.twitter.com/QSuWEBbBGK
— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) January 8, 2023
Being a professional rapper takes a lot of skill and a ridiculous amount of dedication, and most people with common sense will tell you that. Still, Montana may be underestimating just how hard the NBA actually is.
The NBA Is Deeper Than It’s Ever Been
In the modern-day especially, young players coming in are going to find the jump in talent to be extreme. The talent is deeper than ever before and teams have figured out new ways to maximize their players.
“First of all, it’s just math. The shot clock is longer, so there’s gonna be more possessions in an NBA game,” said JJ Redick. “And there’s 8 more minutes of basketball. So, f**khead, that’s not possible. Secondly, what he doesn’t understand is, you watch college basketball, I’m like, these guys have not evolved their philosophy since the 1980s or 1990s. It’s ridiculous. Same sets that I used to run, that I used to watch growing up, that Kansa used to run. Bro, do you know why it’s so hard to play defense in the NBA? It’s not cause we can’t it’s cause there’s f**king space and the players are so good.”
While Montana is certainly on to something with the difficult path of being a rapper, there’s only a finite amount of roster spots in the NBA, unlike the music world where anybody can give it a go at any time they want.
Ultimately, the debate will always be a subjective one — but we can still recognize that neither career is a particularly easy one to get into.
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