More and more, NBA players rely on numbers to improve their game. Here’s a statistic that Utah Jazz guard Raul Neto finds concerning: compared to boys, twice as many girls drop out of organized sports by the time they turn 14 years old.
“They don’t have the same support that guys have,” Neto said. “We grow up thinking that basketball or soccer or football is for men. It’s not like that. Girls can be athletes.”
That’s why Neto and his teammate, rookie guard Grayson Allen, showed up at West High School last week for an all-girls basketball clinic.