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An athlete's personality should not be a factor. He will be the same jerk in College.
Noone addressed the point that there has already been precedent..dating back to Moses Malone.
blakngold4- What you miss is that in the other sports the talent may not be there and they wind up in the farm system...that is what it is. If Mark Cuban or other owners want to draft a HS player that is their perogative. Their investment & gamble.
IMHO there is indeed to much subjective character judgement on young players and too many people who think they know what is good for another individual.
If said rookie signs rookie contract most likely three years..if he does not plan for a future after his career I dont really see how much different he would have behaved in college. A diva is a diva. Why should talent "X" waste his time playing for DUKE which makes mega-bucks off his sweat for most likely a few years of college when this guys specialty is HOOPS?!?! Do we tell entertainers to go to college? Didi you forget that professional athletes are entertainers? Hey Brittney...you may get pregnant, your boobs may sag and you may never get your gut back into the low-rises..you cant perform anymore until you prepare your self for a career outside of pop music. GET OUT OF HERE!!!
The world needs to stop trying to judge these people. On one hand the pop industry companies are allowed to fund all this gangsta rap and make their fortunes but now the athletes adopt that culture but to their own detriment?!?
There is most definetly a big brotherish/racial aspect to this debate. The people being judged are young black men. While I absolutely HATE what the POP/Hip Hop image and culture has become (mostly becuase I am a disciple of what the culture was initially in NYC) with its glorification of lyrics, image and behavior centered around incarceration, drug dealing, various crimes and most importantly violence against other minorities.....denying these young men the right to enter the draft is WRONG.
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