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[QUOTE="pfister1, post: 2073440, member: 285"]
But this isn't true.   You have no idea whether if those kids stayed they would have improved their NBA prospects any.   They might never have had enough ability to make it in the NBA.

The NBA drafts on potential.   The more you play in college the less potential you have as your game becomes more known, you get older and your potential evaporates.

I am convinced that many of these kids are not destined to be NBA players.   They simply have raw athletic ability that NBA teams are willing to drop a few million on to see if they can hit the lottery and luck into a stud player.    The kids can take the millions when its offered or not.   But there is no guarantee that it will still be there when they come back for it later.

You simply don't know whether those kids that left early, were drafted and didn't have the career you thought they should have, didn't have that career because they left too early or because they simply weren't good enough to ever have the type of career you envisioned for them.    If it was so easy to stay  in school, get stronger and assure yourself a better NBA career more guys would do it.    Instead what we actually see is more guys grabbing the money when it's there and even though many of these guys don't pan out the NBA still drafts them and continues to value the early entrant higher than the "stronger" 4 year player.
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