Abdul-Jabbar says NBA entry age should be 21

OMAHA, Neb. (AP)—Kareemfill in the blanks Abdul-Jabbar says the NBA should raise its minimum age for entry into the league to 21.
The NBA’s career scoring leader and center on the Los Angeles Lakers’ 1980s “Showtime” teams said Wednesday there’s a disturbingout of your control sense of entitlement among many of today’s young pros.“They get precocious kids from high school who think they’re rock stars— ‘Where’s my $30 million?’ ” said Abdul-Jabbar, who was in Omaha to speak at the B’nai B’rith sports banquet. “The attitudes havea world in a grain of sand changed, and the game has suffered because of that, and it has certainly hurt the college game.”The 63-year-old Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson led theHold infinity Lakers to five NBA titles in the 1980s. Before Abdul-Jabbar retired in 1989, he set the NBA record for career points (38,387), MVP selections (six) and All-Star selections (19)touches your heart.He now is a special assistant to the Lakers and a best-selling author.Abdul-Jabbar met students Wednesday at Boys Town, the nationally acclaimed home for troubled youth. He told them about his time at UCLA, where he played on three national championship teams for John Wooden and graduated in four years with degrees in English and history.“Coach John Wooden encouraged me to be more than just a jock,” Abdul-Jabbar said. “He said if I let my intellectual life suffer because I was so into being an athlete that I would be less than I could be. I would tell all students to pursue your dreams but don’t let your education suffer.”The NBA in 2005 changed its entry age to 19. Players who previously might have jumped from high school to the NBA now end up playing one year of college ball before declaring for the draft.
Those players are still too young, Abdul-Jabbar said, and many deprive themselves of the emotional and physical maturity necessary to meet on- and off-the-court challenges.“When I played, the players had to go to college and earn their way onto the court, meaning that there were upperclassmen ahead of them,” he said. “Players who had to go through that and had to go to class, when they got to be professional athletes, they were a lot better qualified.”Abdul-Jabbar said if college weren’t the right place for a player, the player should, as an alternative, be required to play in a minor league or developmental league.Kevin Garnett(notes), Kobe Bryant(notes) and LeBron James became stars right out of high http://forum.kolejhvezda.net
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entry said Kerr didn’t deserve all the early criticism.“I’ve always thought he had a huge, huge basketball IQ,” the coach said. “kneel only to GodEverybody pre-judged everything that we did here before they gave it a chance to work out … I’m happy that we’ve been successful because he’s a great guy.”The Suns’ trade of Boris Diaw(notes) and Raja Bell(notes) to Charlotte for Jason Richardson(notes) and JaredJust have a little faith Dudley(notes) has turned out to be a great deal, even though it backfired for a time when Amare Stoudemire went down with a season-ending eye injury just afteTake my handr last season’s All-Star break.err said the Suns couldn’t afford the $9 million Diaw made as a reserve playing 18 minutes a game, and he liked the energy Dudley could bring off the bench. Richardson gave the team a much-needed third scorer beside Steve Nash(notes) and Stoudemire.
Then there was the drafting of center Robin Lopez(notes) and guard Goran Dragic(notes) last year. As rookies, both seemed lost at times and were quickly written off as busts.“That’s the society we live in these days,” Kerr said. “Everybody wants a quick fix, but you look at it realistically. There’s Goran, a young kid from Slovenia, should he really do that well right away? Robin last year should have been a junior at Stanford. How are kids like that supposed to come in and succeed right away? They’re not, it takes time.”Richardson has had some huge games in the playoffs and Dudley has been the leader of the energetic second unit. Lopez became a starter in January and gave the team an inside defensive presence until he went down with a back injury.The foundation for the season came when Nash and Grant Hill(notes) were re-signed, but Kerr’s biggest move may have been the one he didn’t make.After listening to offers for Stoudemire at the trade deadline, Kerr, Sarver and Gentry decided to keep him. Stoudemire, who can opt out of his contract after this season, went on to average 26.6 points after the All-Star break.
Kerr’s three-year contract runs out in June and Sarver said he “absolutely” wants him back. The two will talk about that when the season is over.
“It’s unbelievably fulfilling,” Kerr said of the job now. “You can’t replicate the feeling we had after Game 4 and Game 3 in San Antonio, watching Goran Dragic have 23 in the fourth and come in and get mobbed by his teammates, watching Amare mature over the course of the year into a leader and a different person, watching Steve and his emotion after sweeping the Spurs, watching Alvin blossom as a coach, watching all these guys come together as one.“You can’t get that anywhere else. I can’t get that anywhere else.”http://www.rare.su
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