define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); high school – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:31:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court Are the NCAA & NBA forming an alliance to corrupt America’s youth? http://rushthecourt.net/2008/03/18/are-the-ncaa-nba-forming-an-alliance-to-corrupt-americas-youth/ http://rushthecourt.net/2008/03/18/are-the-ncaa-nba-forming-an-alliance-to-corrupt-americas-youth/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:38:10 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=685

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 [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2008/03/18/are-the-ncaa-nba-forming-an-alliance-to-corrupt-americas-youth/feed/ 1