none those dudes had Jordan or Wade's money, most weren't even millionaires and couldn't afford to by Lamborghinis for themselves, let alone their kids back then.

In addition to all of that recreation and entertainment options are lot different than they were 20, 30, 40 years ago for kids from various economic backgrounds, not just insanely rich kids and I think it shows with a lot of the young athletes coming up today. A lot of them have ridiculous physical ability but a lot of the finer skills are just not there. Nowadays it's tough to convince a kid to go outside play with a ball all day when they have a few hundred channels on tv, playstations, xboxes, gameboys, laptops, tablets, smartphones, Facebook, twitter, instagram, and whatever else they are into.

The worth ethic, the "10,000 hours", is just not there.

Then when you have the rich kids that have all that plus luxury cars, indoor and outdoor pool at home, growing up with nannies and maids wiping their ass and cleaning up behind them, chefs preparing their food, it's just not likely to happen.