Are you serious???

You know what??? If Rubio and Gallo and Tony Parker, etc can do it than our american boys need to do it too if they can...Kid is getting pimped by NCAA rules anyway so he might as well get some money to help pay for his sidekick bills.

As a 16 year old kid I dunno what I was thinking about...probably smokin weed and trying to get a dry hump in a party

Posted by Ira:

For some, it might work. But for others, leaving home and going to play professional basketball before the finish high school might not be a good idea.

You give our high schools too much credit-- as if anything productive is undertaken in our classrooms.

This kid will get a better education just playing over there and not going to school then he would going to school here to sit in class and text his friends.

[Edited by - orangeblobman on 08-01-2009 6:19 PM]

Walsh lets another one get past him

I think Stern needs to reconsider letting guys play out of high school. This is just the beginning. At least in the past guys went to prep school.

I think this is great. I don't think H.S. in it's current form is such a great thing, he's not missing out on much "educationally" speaking. What most know as education is indoctrination, memorization, etc. He will make more money in one year in Europe than he will working a regular job in probably 20 years in America, not to mention get out of a mold of being just an "American". Travel really makes one grow in ways you can't understand outside of "direct experience". Perhaps for these young guys they can set up some money on the side for further "education", whatever they deem that to be.

What I'd like to see next is avoidance of the draft and going to a team that they want to.

To be honest, if you are going to be at a rather big team in europe, you can expect to get schooled here. Most teams, at least at football, have there own boarding schools (?). Teams have teachers and giving there young players not only an balling education, but rather an degree in some kind as well.
No disrespect, but I think even from an normal educational point of view, there is nothing better for a young american than to get over to europe an get there education there. And getting paid for playing ball at the same time makes the deal even sweater, i guess.