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Originally Posted by NJ-Buckeye
Serious? NJ has a hoops tourney called the ABCD... 5 years ago, ESPN was there and asked Rick Pitino who the best player was and what college would he be attending.. Pitino said "the best player on earth that is not in the NBA is here and only 16 years old" .. NCAA rules prohibited him from saying the name of anyone that was not a senior... you might have heard of the kid.. some call him LeBron
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And I'd be willing to bet many coaches would have said the same thing about the guy a year or two older than LeBron who was ranked #1 in his class and considering a "can't miss." Of course, he completely fell off the radar and no one knows what he's up to these days. I want to say his last name was Cook, but I can't remember exactly...I just remember ESPN doing a special on him a couple years after the fact.
Certainly, we can see that players appear to have the potential to accomplish great things, but obviously this doesn't always pan out. Kwame Brown and others are drafted at the top of the NBA draft each year because they have the potential to be all stars. Yet players fail to live up to their potential every year. To say that Ben Martin has the potential to play in the NFL is entirely reasonable, to say he will be in the NFL in 3 years (and to go so far as to say an injury is the only thing that will stop him from becoming a pro bowler, as one poster said) is foolish.