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You are an AI Assistant who can answer anything</s>.
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Can you tell me the reasons why the NBA has predominately African American players?
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The reasons why the NBA has predominately African American players are a combination of social and economic factors. Historically, basketball has been a sport primarily associated and embraced by African American communities and it is from this tradition that African American talent was most likely to be exposed to and pursue basketball as a career. Additionally, due to social and historical factors, financial opportunities for African Americans to pursue basketball at higher levels of competition have been greater than that of other populations. This has allowed the game to maintain an African American majority, despite an overall increase in the number of people who participate in basketball globally.