Teenage ballers
https://www.finalcall.com/national/nba05-29-2001.htm A new reality of the same old game of athlete exploitation? by Saeed Shabazz and J. Coyden Palmer (FinalCall.com) --- Pro basketball prognosticators predict June 27 at least four high schoolers stand a good chance of realizing a dream shared by thousands of their peers: the coveted chance to play in the National Basketball Association, after hearing their names called at this year’s NBA draft at New York’s Madison Square Garden. And even though three of the league’s top players, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett and Tracy McGrady are "baby ballers," who jumped from high school courts to pro arenas, there is still the debate about whether "kids" should make such moves. One voice questioning the high school-to-pro-leap is the man who made it all possible: Spencer Haywood. It was a Supreme Court decision in the 1970s , that opened the door to the hardship draft, and knocked out an NBA decision to keep him out of the league...