Thank you for this very interesting piece, especially because it is written by a black man like yourself. If a white person were to write this, the whole perspective would have been entirely different.
A lot of people want to tiptoe around the topic of race, especially when it comes to sports like basketball. But objectively, we all can say that professional basketball (at least in the NBA here in North America) is more than 90 percent black.
And this does not mean there is some kind of racism going on or anything like that. It is what it is. Certain things are going to have certain races of people who are predominantly from a certain group. This is normal.
For instance, are you aware that eSports usually have way more Asians (or people of some kind of Asian descent) as the dominant race being represented? It is so common for people to expect a lot of professional gaming teams to be jam-packed full of Asian players.