06-25-2009, 05:25 PM
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AAU-Fundamentals and Basketball Today, etc
NBA Draft: AAU Helps American Kids Flunk Basketball 101 - WSJ.com
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At Thursday?s NBA draft, some of America?s budding basketball superstars will learn where they will launch their careers. Four months later, when the season begins, many will learn something else: They don?t know how to play basketball.
One system that prepares young American players for the pros, the Amateur Athletic Union, is, by most accounts, broken. Without a rigid minor-league system like baseball?s or the extra seasoning football players get in college, America?s basketball gems increasingly get their training from teams affiliated with the Amateur Athletic Union, a vast national youth-basketball circuit that has groomed many of the sport?s top stars.
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