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9GAG.tv Flickr Blog Games at Miniclip.com - Play Free Online Games FiveThirtyEight MS Paint Adventures TechCrunch TED Blog NFL.com upside Blog The Mecca in Decline « They sit in a Harlem church basement or a south Brooklyn deli, at an elite high school in Queens or a failing middle school on the Lower East Side, near Madison Square Garden or the Cage or the Rucker or some other calcified shrine, and they explain what their city has lost. Once, New York was home to more basketball talent than any other city on the planet. No more. As for what changed, theories vary. An older scout says it’s all about attitude. New York is no longer the greatest basketball city on earth. When we talk about the decline of New York City basketball, we’re not talking about the Knicks’ interminable incompetence or the Nets’ lavish and misguided efforts to build a contender. In the 1970s, eight different New Yorkers made All-Star teams. Football has always belonged to the Midwest and the South, baseball to America’s suburbs. Yet by the ’80s, the city’s dominance had already begun to fade. We can keep going. But cities are judged by their stars. How did this happen?