Study: Report on 2011 NBA race and gender

The NBA currently has the highest percentage of African American athletes and Statistics has taken place. However, the proportion of white players in the NBA was at its lowest point ever. Exposure to the office that have heard of women and people of color has increased since last year once all want to be like Mike, because he was the only African American majority owner of an NBA team. Richard Lapchick, author of the research showed that the NBA a leader in all major sports such as variety of other professional sports, unique. In this report we want to Lapchick card as the progress of race and gender matter in the NBA.

The NBA remains the industry leader in matters of recruitment, race and gender. As the map shows the racial and sexual Report 2011, the National Association of Basketball had the best score among the leagues of men by race and gender, as in two decades.

The NBA had an A + for race and gender from a combination of A.
Used based on the total points in the weight ranges, the NBA earned its highest ever combined 92.2, above the previous record of 91.5 in 2010.
The qualifications for a career in the NBA was 95.3, clearly since the 2010 report, when it was 93.8.

The sum total of the race and were higher than any other sport for men in the history of racial and sexual Bulletin.

The NBA returns for professional sports men, by a combined score of race and gender.

The report of last year the NBA had an A for the race, an A-for a combined gender and A.


COn the NBA, 83 percent of the players were people of color, which is an increase of one percentage point in recent years. This represents the largest percentage of black players in the race and gender report card began reporting on the composition of the teams in the NBA. The percentage of African-American players increased by one percentage point to 78 percent, matching its highest level since about 2001-02. The proportion of Asians remained steady at 1 percent. The proportion of Hispanics increased by one percentage point to 4 percent. The percentage of people of color are just like the other 1 percent classified. The percentage of international players fell by one percentage point to 17 percent, the lowest since the 2003-04 season.

CAT 17 percent was the lowest percentage of white players from racial and gender report card began reporting on the composition of the teams in the NBA.

Cwom instead of 42 percent of the contributions in the NBA League Office. The decrease of two points on the map the last report.

CMichael Jordan, the Charlotte Bobcats, the only African American owner of one of the most male team in the NBA. It happened to Robert Johnson, the former owner of the Bobcats.

C. The nine black coach and head coach of Asia at the beginning of the 2010-11 season in the NBA. The proportion of coaches of color rose from 30 percent in 2009-10 to 33 percent for the period 2010-2011.

C45 percent of assistant coach in the NBA coaches were of color. This was the highest since it began this tracking RGRC.

CAt was the start of the regular 2010-11 season, there are five African-American director / president of the NBA. Terdema Ussery, Dallas Mavericks held the roles of both CEO and chairman. Afro-Americans held 10 percent of the positions of CEO / President, a decrease of two percentage points since the 2009-10 season.

Proportion of people of color CIS positions of professional NBA teams by 26 percent in recent years by 27 percent Ballot. Women held 39 percent of these positions in the 2010-11 season, which tied the 2009-10 season as a whole.

AC end of the 2010-11 season, 55 percent of the national bibliographic referee knows, 42 percent were African American and 3 percent were Latino. Of the 60 judges, was a woman.

Racial and gender report is issued in all of sports. NBA report race and gender continue the study of baseball and is the second report in 2011.

The report of the NBA will be followed by entries for the Women's National Basketball, National Football League, Major League Soccer and Sports College. The full report of race and gender will be issued thereafter.