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06-17-2008, 07:35 PM
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You do the math. Many of those 91 early entries are going to be severely disappointed.
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I would do the math - but I left college two years early to work for a Big Eight Accounting firm.
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06-19-2008, 12:30 PM
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Geez, we can't seem to get one star freshman to stay and UNC has held onto these guys for 3 years now.
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06-19-2008, 03:13 PM
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Geez, we can't seem to get one star freshman to stay and UNC has held onto these guys for 3 years now.
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They don't have NBA type games...Great college players, but not not superstar potential in the NBA...Thus the reason all were talked about going maybe at the end of the first round...
KK is a for sure top 20 pick...Oden, Conley, and Cook were top 5 and Cook a top 25...
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06-26-2008, 06:06 PM
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Skipping school to outsmart NBA rules - NCAA Basketball - Yahoo! Sports
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That said, Arizona is still the most likely destination; Jennings plans to enroll in a summer high school next week to help with his eligibility. All options are on the table though.
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I love how basketball players act like going to college is some kind of torture being levied upon them. Football players have to stay for 3 years, yet these guys act like one season is going to ruin them for life.
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06-26-2008, 06:15 PM
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This case is a little different. From what I understand, Jennings would be ineligible to play his freshman year or possibly even get into UA. He is good enough that if they had not implemented the one-year rule a couple years ago that he could have declared for the NBA draft this year and would have been taken extremely high. You really can't compare him to a football player because football players just aren't physically mature enough to play professional ball right out of HS.
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06-27-2008, 09:30 AM
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Kevin Love goes 5th. Yepppp.
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06-27-2008, 12:54 PM
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Disappointing night for many early entrants
 By Andy Katz
ESPN.com
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Updated: June 27, 2008
NEW YORK -- When will the underclassmen learn that the NBA draft can be a cruel and unforgiving process?
Mississippi State junior Jamont Gordon and USC freshman Davon Jefferson got a tough lesson Thursday. After leaving school early, both failed to be selected in the NBA draft. They flushed away their college eligibility, they lost their amateur status and now they'll be trying to make a team as a free agent.
Last month, Gordon chose to turn down an invitation to the Orlando pre-draft camp. The word was that he thought he would go in the first round.
Jefferson went to Orlando and at the time said he felt he was ready to make the jump to the NBA.
Both players better hope they get to the D-League and somehow make the NBA the hard way.
Even though a record 10 freshmen were selected in the first round, there were a number of disappointed underclassmen Thursday night. Clearly, a handful of early entrants got poor advice about their draft status, stayed in the draft instead of returning to school and plummeted below expectations.
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06-27-2008, 12:59 PM
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Even though a record 10 freshmen were selected in the first round, there were a number of disappointed underclassmen Thursday night. Clearly, a handful of early entrants got poor advice about their draft status, stayed in the draft instead of returning to school and plummeted below expectations.
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The above is why I think they need to go back to the old rule or implementing the rules similar to college baseball. These kids get bad advice and have no idea that the advice is not very good because there were good in college.
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