One day as I was sitting during a slow day at work and started thinking, how throughout the playoffs LeBron James was the biggest news getter when he hasn't even made a bucket yet?

The league (NBA) always talks about how today's players are so much younger and not fundamentally sound. Yet they have a 7-foot, four-year college player, who has crushed from day one in their face. Tim Duncan to me gave a finals performance that we may not see for along time.

This guy should have been the big talk, a guy who went
and played four years at Wake Forest and could have been the number one pick since his time as a junior. The fact that he went back and tried not only to work on his game, but to also make that senior season something special, especially if you didn't win in previous years.

Players like Carmelo Anthony, Jay Williams, and Chris
Wilcox all have won at the college level and that counts for something.

Winning a national title is harder than winning a NBA championship and for the league to hype a guy who has
not made a bucket against a pro is ridiculous. To me the NBA is phasing out college as the next level or step for a career because the wrong guys are getting all the press.

It shames me to say that the Cleveland Cavaliers will almost play as much on National TV as the Philadelphia 76ers next year. Maybe as much as the Spurs depending on how well LeBron plays early.

Yes, I will be hyped after LeBron crosses somebody over and dunks on some poor fool's head, but in the end I'd rather watch two time league MVP Tim Duncan bust the league’s collective asses on some different shit.

What's funny is Duncan doesn't have to rock throwbacks because his attitude, work ethic, and entire game is a throw back. In the future he maybe one the many ghosts to comeback to games and throw that monkey wrench in the opponents game because he's in the building (For reference see the Boston Celtics, and the presence of
Bill Russell).

Next year the league should push in a direction to help boost college basketball and make these young boys see that the game isn’t for the weak and sweet. They should make all young boys play Atlantic Coast Conference, Southeastern Conference, Big 12, Pac-10, or Big East ball for at least two years before they can enter the draft. Most players that play in these conferences make pretty good pros, especially those coming from the ACC (For reference see MJ or Tim Duncan).

With steps like these we can ensure future players will not be rated on their potential to just make buckets, but how many buckets they can drop in the course of winning.

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