As of 2010, 283 players in the history of the NBA were born in New York (state). Some pretty successful players you may know, are:
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So far there have been 11 NHL players who've been born in Missouri. The first was Landon Wilson, from St Louis, who played 1996-2009.
Since 1871, 75,933 major leaguers have been born in the US,
None, not one NHL player has been born in South Carolina.
There have only been 4 African Americans in NHL
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They have bought five players.
There are 37 Russian Born Players in NHL
As of January 24th 2011, there have been 149 NHL skaters and 16 NHL goalies born in Massachusetts.
None. However there have been plenty of brown players, some of which are African American.
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