We pay pros to satisfy our Walter Mitty dreams, to fulfill our vicarious need to triumph over someone else. Whatever Camby got, we're now asked to believe, he deserved. If so, then the rest of us deserve what we're getting, too. Until those knee-jerk folks find answers to the unanswerable, these are the NCAA rules we'll have for a while. I think the NBA is a farce.
Basketball is no longer a game of skill, with emphasis on shooting and passing.
It's about all these other things. That is the message the NBA is sending. Dennis Rodman is now a cult hero. David Stern and the NBA say that players leaving college early is not their problem, it's the college's problem. But it's about to become the NBA's problem.