Are the NCAA & NBA forming an alliance to corrupt America’s youth?

nvr1983 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:38:10 +0000

Anthony Schoettle of the Indianapolis Business Journal reports on a very interesting development: the NCAA and NBA are planning on developing year-round training programs for high-school players with academies for elite players and conduct sanctioned tournaments and leagues. In addition, they are also considering training programs for coaches and officials (hello, Tim Donaghy) and finding corporate sponsors for the program (as if commercializing the sport wasn’t enough).

While we agree that youth basketball in the US is rampant with shady dealings and kids these days don’t learn fundamentals, we get the sense that these two organizations are more concerned [...]

Does March Madness matter in May and June?

rtmsf — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:50:54 +0000

Wilbon, as usual, is up in arms.

Today we wanted to take a moment to examine an idea put forth by the inimitable Mike Wilbon in Monday’s Washington Post. Wilbon’s essential take (written after game 3 of the Detroit-Cleveland series) was that much of Lebron’s struggles in late-game situations of the NBA playoffs is directly attributable to his lack of “big game” experience, which his predecessors (Magic, MJ, Bird, etc.) honed and developed during the crucible of March Madness. He wrote:

LeBron’s bigger problem is never having learned how to play these kinds of high-stakes games in college — and now having [...]

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Are the NCAA & NBA forming an alliance to corrupt America’s youth?

Does March Madness matter in May and June?