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The question or argument of whether NBA coaches are allowed to scout student athletes prior to high school graduation is a moot debate! This is going to happen! Money is involved! After all, is not playing in the NBA an occupation? Is it not against the law to prevent someone from pursuing the right to make a living using their own skills?

A precocious youngster that is a phenomenal piano player is thought to have every right to speed after their passion. Some are encouraged to begin playing for money at a very tender age! Why not? They probably would be frustrated at not being able to display their amazing skill. We should let them have a chance!

What about the truly gifted intellectually? Why hold them back by making them toil through the years of rudimentary school work? Let them go on to higher education we proclaim! We should let them elevate their brain power to weightier matters. Let them be a medical doctor or a researcher to stop heart disease! Will this automatically make them a success? This is not guaranteed, but at least they have the chance!

What about the gifted athlete? Whoa! This person is different! They will make to much money for their age! Bless their heart, the young man will suffer! As a young man, if I could have possessed great enough skill to play in the NBA, I would have pranced and danced into accepting the offer I received. Recruit the hell out of me! My Mother and I would have been slobbering for the chance to live in a nice house with actual insulation to keep the cold winters of North Texas on the outside, not on the inside where they usually were felt! We would have been able to supplement her pay at the school cafeteria where she labored for meager wages. By the way, did I say she began there for $65.00 a month? Bring on the recruiters!

The whole question is about jealousy. Colleges want first crack at the greater athletes. This is only natural. If the colleges and college coaches get the players, then they get the big bucks. They get the honker contracts with T.V. and shoe companies.

They claim the player gets an education. At the money we are talking about, the player probably might get an education, but the colleges and coaches get rich! What a deal!

Colleges and college coaches proclaim the players are just too young to experience all the fame, glory and especially the money to be able to make wise decisions about their future. Oh, such concern for the player!

As Neil Diamond said in his song about people coming to America, the people came to be successful and hopefully to get rich. They came because of the opportunity to run after their dreams. They came young and old to have success that eluded them in other countries. This is the "land of opportunity". This is the county that does not hold you back from being what ever you want or even becoming rich by your own efforts.

Why should the young player with all the ability not be allowed to be chased by the NBA with a hope of fulfilling the "American Dream"? Why should age hold you back from "the dream"?

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