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David R. De Remer's sports column, "Maybe They Should Stay in School" (Sports, April 5) caught my attention because the author doesn't seem to fully understand the influx of underclass basketball players into the pros...
...much as basketball fans and analysts have bemoaned players leaving after only one year of college ball or straight out of high school, the bottom line is that players leave early if they know they'll be drafted high. De Remer can talk all he wants about Michigan State's Mateen Cleaves staying to win an NCAA championship, but he has to remember that Cleaves is still a questionable first round draft pick at best because Cleaves is a 40 percent career shooter. Would Cleaves have stayed if he'd been a guaranteed lottery pick? He stayed partly...
...Remer's most misguided claims is that Mateen Cleaves is "set for life" as a result of the endorsement dollars that will roll in after his clutch performance Monday night. Sure, he played a great game, but when did you last hear the names Scotty Thurman, Donald Williams, Ed O'Bannon, Ricky Moore or Miles Simon in commercials? All of these players had excellent performances on Monday nights, but they are proof that a good title game does not an endorser make. The names Kevin Garnett and Kobe Bryant are a bit more recognizable, and neither played a minute...
...Early entry of underclass students requires a much more balanced and knowledgeable analysis than De Remer cares to give...
...Remer says he's reformed now, having had one of those little epiphanies that sometimes come to people who are pulled over by the state police. He was stopped one night on the narrow and unlighted Merritt Parkway in Connecticut after a high-speed race with another car, and soon thereafter he enrolled in a seminar for aggressive drivers. "I was lucky to recognize my problem and try to fix it," he says...