ow hanging with your peers, drinking cheap beer and eating junk food might be fun, but I’d rather hang with famous athletes, drink expensive beer and eat great food cooked by other people. I hope that doesn’t make me a bad guy.Don’t worry; I will still grow as a person without being in college. Believe it or not, tons of baseball players that go straight to the professional level are not emotionally trapped 18 year olds for the rest of their lives. Also, I think a guy like Kobe Bryant has looked more mature lately than his “coach” Phil Jackson- now that Phil has accused Kobe of sabotaging games while still in high school. But in the end it is still about basketball. I realize I have a lot to learn, and I won’t play much at first. But if I work hard I will make it just like Tracy McGrady and Kevin Garnett did. Now these players are the poster-children of the NBA. Maybe the NBA isn’t as good as it was in the late eighties and early ninety’s, but is that really because kids like me are in the league? Anyway, would you rather have a young, athletic guy off the bench or an old arthritic one?At any rate, I am going pro. Basketball might have some problems. I just don’t think having hardworking, talented young players in the NBA is one of them.” Now for the next step up, we journey into what used to be essential to a great NBA career, college. College basketball is bigger and better than ever today. We have young talented athletes, pursuing their dreams in a proper way. They play their sport, all while getting a brain full of knowledge. The problem with getting these big-ticket players to stay in college, or go at all, is money. Today’s universal language is money. Today’s best high school athletes are offered full-ride scholarships to play basketball at an elite school. They can do what they love, and get their education, free of charge. This sounds lik...
