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...stake for Lin, a member of the eight-player Tidewater Sealants, will be the chance to improve his shot at playing in the NBA or overseas next season...
Tennessee’s Wayne Chism and Omar Samhan of St. Mary’s will also be looking to prove themselves at Portsmouth. Last year, six tournament players were drafted to the NBA...
...This is a good opportunity for him,” Givony said. “We have a pretty good feeling that he could have played at any level of college basketball, but the fact that he was in the Ivy League—not really going up against NBA-caliber athletes on a game-by-game basis—makes this a good setting for him to show that he can translate his game to a higher level of competition. For him, there’s a lot to prove here...
...That would be a safe bet to make,” Givony said of the trio possibly playing in Europe next year, but he held off on assessing the NBA chances of the Ivy’s top seniors...
...Although colleges are in part to blame for accepting athletic prodigies with the knowledge that they will leave after one year—taking them for athletic success and not academic potential—they are not the root of this issue. As backward as it may sound, the NBA should re-allow players to enter the league directly from high school. Rather than letting the small number of high-profile players publicly act as college students for a year and thus set an example to young fans that college is a one-year stop, let them go directly...