Where does it say athletes must retire early and never work again. The embarrassment to us as a society is that these men were given full scholarships to the country s most prestigious universities and they wasted the opportunity. Spending your time studying hard to achieve a 4.0 GPA will not get you a scholarship to most of these schools, but if you can dunk a basketball or throw a pass, you can go to college, skip classes and waste the potential for a wonderful, free education. If you did not take advantage of that scenario, tough. Being an ex-NBA player might give you an advantage there, also.
Fans know the truth.
Owners and players don t care. So now it s in the hands of lawyers. We all know what the public gets when lawyers take over anything.