Sunday, May 22, 2005
NBA Draft Thoughts
sports.espn.go.com/nba/dr...id=2063740
above link are doug gottlieb's thoughts on nba teams drafting high school kids and he is obviously not a fan of the practice.
he is also wrong imo.
so what is his point exactly? that if you flounder in college it is better than fizzling in the nba and never having been awarded a multi-million dollar first round contract?
and since when does even competing at the college level and becoming eligible for the nba draft make you a 'certain success' in the nba?
doesn't happen, most guys drafted into the nba in the first round are no longer playing in 'the league' within five years.......
why do i take umbrage at this article? because as much as he thrashes the idea of kids going from high school to the nba draft, he doesn't say that the success/ failure rate is proportional to all of our lives.
not all of us become first round draft choices. some of us go unselected and mature into great people, some of us continue to wallow in turmoil.
most of us take chances in life in order to go forward and attain our goals - win or lose.as for the age minimum in the nba, why do we want it in place exactly? to spare a life of desperation for the kids that don't make it into the nba? i highly doubt that, what happens to the kids who sign major league baseball contracts out of high school who fail, what about the teens active in the tennis tournaments throughout the world? what is the rate of success amongst their numbers trying to attain the top levels of their sporting professions?
no, seems to me that we want the age limitations because it would help the universities with millions of dollars on the line and fans who want their college game to be what it was twenty years ago (me included).
as much as i am for watching the best kids play in college and a well played game, too, i think it should be the right of the young man and his parents/ guardians (if they have a say) as to when the young man wants to take on the risks & responsibilities - win or lose..........of playing professional ball.
above link are doug gottlieb's thoughts on nba teams drafting high school kids and he is obviously not a fan of the practice.
he is also wrong imo.
so what is his point exactly? that if you flounder in college it is better than fizzling in the nba and never having been awarded a multi-million dollar first round contract?
and since when does even competing at the college level and becoming eligible for the nba draft make you a 'certain success' in the nba?
doesn't happen, most guys drafted into the nba in the first round are no longer playing in 'the league' within five years.......
why do i take umbrage at this article? because as much as he thrashes the idea of kids going from high school to the nba draft, he doesn't say that the success/ failure rate is proportional to all of our lives.
not all of us become first round draft choices. some of us go unselected and mature into great people, some of us continue to wallow in turmoil.
most of us take chances in life in order to go forward and attain our goals - win or lose.as for the age minimum in the nba, why do we want it in place exactly? to spare a life of desperation for the kids that don't make it into the nba? i highly doubt that, what happens to the kids who sign major league baseball contracts out of high school who fail, what about the teens active in the tennis tournaments throughout the world? what is the rate of success amongst their numbers trying to attain the top levels of their sporting professions?
no, seems to me that we want the age limitations because it would help the universities with millions of dollars on the line and fans who want their college game to be what it was twenty years ago (me included).
as much as i am for watching the best kids play in college and a well played game, too, i think it should be the right of the young man and his parents/ guardians (if they have a say) as to when the young man wants to take on the risks & responsibilities - win or lose..........of playing professional ball.
// posted by Zevchi @ 3:38 PM 
