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I think people need to realize that each professional sport is unique in the athletic talent, maturity, and intelligence required. Professional basketball is one of the few pro sports where an extremely talented high school player can just hop in and learn the ropes. In baseball, players have to spend at least a few years in the minors before they are even ready to complete on the MLB level. In football, high school kids would get killed making the jump to the NFL (hence the age requirement). Sure, if I am an NBA GM, I'd rather have a great athlete after four years under Coach K than a great athlete straight out of high school, but when you are throwing millions of dollars at kids, they're not going to pass on it. A good real world analogy is a young math genius. If this math genius is already prepared for graduate work, then why should he go through the undergraduate courses? Just to gain experience? Sure, the graduate work might be a big leap, but if he can make it, then why not?
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bab - as far as lebron goes, he won't be sitting the bench for two years. The others, yes.
Ashley - don't cry for Kwame. Like I said, he got his shot, and that's all he asks for. If he's got those problems, someone should have been telling him that from the beginning. Plus, if the talent is there, it will come out. May take a few years, but it will. There were people who were saying that Kobe wasn't ready out of HS, too, and maybe he wasn't. But he's ready now.
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