Today a scout for the NBA asked you to play professional basketball, as soon as you graduated high school. ... However, this is America, and those athletes, who are legally adults, need to be able to make their own decision based on their personal preferences and not what society thinks that they should do. ... There were "eight American Athletes on the 2002 United States Winter Olympic team", "Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Anna Kournikova, Monica Seles, and the Williams sisters all went pro before their 18th birthdays",and "Tiger played in his first professional tournament in 1992, at age 1...

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Maybe if Georgia Tech would have asked Stephan Mauyberry to stick out the rest of his seasons for a few thousand dollars other than his millions in the NBA he would have stayed in school. ... College basketball and football are still some of the highest rated TV in America and it doesn't look to have any downward spirals ahead. ...

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The faculty of many colleges have changed over the past years with the Delta Cost Project in 2010 reporting "...that between 1998 and 2008, America's private colleges increased spending on instruction by 22 percent while increasing spending on administration and staff support by 36 percent" (The Economist Newspaper 1). ... It proves that the NBA does not need someone with a college degree in order to have credibility to play professional basketball. ...

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Students at large dominate academics percentage wise across America, so it is a hard assumption to make against athletes when these at large students aren't bouncing around extra curricular activities. ... Why put 100% of your effort into school if you have coaches doing your work for you, or professional scouts telling you you"re a shoe in for the first round of the upcoming NBA draft. ...

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Students at large dominate academics percentage wise across America, so it is a hard assumption to make against athletes when these at large students aren't bouncing around extra curricular activities. ... Why put 100% of your effort into school if you have coaches doing your work for you, or professional scouts telling you you"re a shoe in for the first round of the upcoming NBA draft. ...

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• Grade Level: High School