palestra38
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Reg: 11-21-04
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02-26-18 10:36 AM - Post#249558
In response to SomeGuy
I agree on the drugs--not the payments. Let's face it, there is tremendous market value to a potential NBA caliber basketball player, and the "mining" to realize that potential starts at about 10-11 years old. The entire AAU system is a feeder system in which investments are made and they have to be repaid. Moreover, while the coaches get millions to produce winning programs, the players who are not there for a college academic education essentially get nothing. So it isn't a case like PEDs where that is an attempt to gain advantage as much as it is our capitalist system at work. Clearly, the right thing to do would be to get colleges out of the pro basketball business, but that isn't about to happen. But there really is nothing "wrong" (as you put it--legally or morally) about both players's families and the AAU personnel who invest in these players wanting to be paid. The hypocrisy is very hard to take---but if Miller of Arizona was willing to pay $100K for a player, that's because the bidding was at that level, not because he's trying to gain an unfair advantage.
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