My First and Last Post About Pro Basketball

Two related questions:

• Are sportswriters still bitching and moaning about LeBron James having the temerity to sign a professional contract out of high school? Are they still planning to complain that the new restrictions on the drafting of 18-year-olds are in the (non-financial) interests of the league or the athletes?
• Would sportswriters claim that it’s better for an 18-year-old to go to college for a couple years to get some credits towards a degree in billiards strategy from Oklahoma State rather than signing a mutli-million dollar contract in a sport in which the players were predominantly white? (Actually, I think we have the answer to that: maybe it’s a difference between the Canadian and American media, but I don’t recall anybody complaining about how it would be vastly better for all concerned if Mario Lemieux or Joe Sakic had gotten a couple years at North Dakota in before turning pro…)