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Must-Read Article from ESPN..."What if No One Went Pro?" discusses the possible men's NCAA Tournament if players like Amare Stoudemire, LeBron James, Dwight Howard, Carmelo Anthony, TJ Ford, and JR Smith stayed or attended college for 4 yrs. A preview:
In an alternate universe, Emeka Okafor and Ben Gordon returned to Connecticut for their senior years.
In an alternate universe, Carmelo Anthony is a junior All-American at Syracuse.
In an alternate universe, Amare Stoudemire and Dajuan Wagner are a lethal one-two scoring punch for Memphis.
In an alternate universe, Luol Deng is still at Duke and he's been joined by freshmen Dwight Howard and Shaun Livingston.
In an alternate universe, the NBA has an age restriction and all high school phenoms go to college – and stay for four years.
posted by Jay @ 1:33 PM
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3 Comments:
Frankly, I wish that players would go to and stay in college. In comparison to the NBA, college basketball highlights skill rather than spectacle, making the games more exciting to educated fans rather than fanatics interested in the hype. Moreover, it should be celebrated that players want to be educated, interesting adults because when their playing days are over they need to have real world skills, including speaking like an adult and turning back to class instead of ghetto culture. Allen Iverson of late is a player I've begun to really respect because of a recent commercial where he comments on the hype of the "basketball culture" and discusses how that is not who he really is, nor is that who he wants his children to be.
Today it was announced that Charlie Villanueva was going to leave UConn for professional basketball, a decision that is crushing UConn's hopes of a great ranking next year. However, Villanueva doesn't have a guarantee in the draft and thus is taking a risk he carefully avoided when deciding between pro and college after highschool. Why would he leave now?
in reaction to the comment about villanueva leaving early, as a diehard UConn bball fan, I couldn't agree more- averaging just over 13 and 8 won't get you there, and reports have him being picked anywhere between 12th and 22nd, projecting UConn's Rudy Gay (11th) and Josh Boone (18th) ahead of him (if they were to leave), according to the Hartford Courant. Charlie, bad decision buddy.
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