SFHoya99
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Post by SFHoya99 on Jun 14, 2005 21:52:45 GMT -5
Well, take the best players in the NBA, say 28 and under -- so about the last ten years of the draft.
Stoudemire & LeBron are HS kids. Dirk is foreign. Jermaine O'Neal is HS. Bryant and McGrady are HS. I think Dwight Howard is going to be good. Ginobli is foreign, if that's your thing. Pau Gasol.
Yes, you get stars out of college, like Wade. But even most younger players who went to school only went for a year or two at most.
Maybe they are higher risk. Maybe they aren't. But there's no denying that a large number of stars come directly out of HS and it seems the upper creme de la creme is almost exclusively HS with a few exceptions (and don't kid yourself -- Shaq and Iverson and Kidd and folks like that would be straight to the L these days).
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Post by theEDGEfactor on Jun 14, 2005 23:10:50 GMT -5
Its the easiest answer to why everyone puts hype into foreign players and high schoolers, because mostly every star in the league is a player who never went to college. Eleven of the 24 all stars are either foreign or came right out of high school. If you find the needle in the hay stack, you will have your franchise player and thats what everyone is trying to do- they look at the Suns-stoudemire, China- Yao, Lakers-Kobe, Jazz-AK47, and they want that kinda player on their team.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jun 15, 2005 3:33:39 GMT -5
But for each of these stars that you guys are mentioning there is a foreign player or HS star that doesn't pan out in the NBA - how many failures can a franchise sustain before it fings the next Lebron, Big Ticket, Yao, etc.?
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