[Stardust]

I agree with most of that. I don't like players going straight to the NBA out of high school. Yea there are some players that were able to do it, Kobe, LeBron, etc. but for everyone of those there are about 3-4 Kwame Browns. It saturated the draft with players who were simply not ready for the big time and in turn it hurt the NBA in my opinion.

Amun-Ra, I think we are in total agreement here. I absolutely do not feel that High School athletes are ready for professional sports. Let's not limit it to Kwame Brown's. Look at the inordinate number across all sports. Much, much worse than the NBA is professional baseball. Not many people know the tragedy of teenagers in baseball. For every player who signs a contact for a MLB team, only 5% ever make it to a big league field. I haven't given you the best fact yet.

But we never ever here anyone complain about players getting drafted out of High School, signing a $5,000 signing bonus and playing for $300-$500 a week. Oh sure, we here about the guys in the 1st round who sign 6 figure deals, but is goes to nothing after that. Here's the best stat for you, in today's baseball, less than 1/2% of players signed out of High School ever play in a big league uniform. Kwame Brown was a bust, but he made enough money to pay for his education! I stick to my guns, I still do not believe there should be a limitation. Let the Kwame Brown's go straight to the NBA. Otherwise, we get the Melo's, Orton's, and Bledsoe's who don't even go to class and wind up putting there schools in jeopardy! Don't put kids who can't read and write (because they don't want to learn) into a situation that will only create problems! Those kids don't want to go to college period!

We haven't even talked about the 14 year-old tennis players, the 15-16 year-old soccer players, or the 16 year-old golfers, or Hockey players who are literally finishing High School with team tutors in the minors, who are not limited to age or scholastic in order to be a paid professional.