Nice job of sugar-coating what we would otherwise call "greed".  Problem is the statement is complete hogwash!  Those gifts go back a couple of years before high school ended.  A lot of these guys make the cash grab as they know they could be unmasked as an academic fraud at a college at any second and the scandal maybe keeps them out the NBA.  BUT, Unlike most of the kids guilty of this, Mayo is smart and had the grades and SAT scores to go to college wherever the hell he wanted to outside the Ivy league.  I don't know why the NBA doesn't just make everyone happy and rule you must be 21 years old to have the contractual capacity to sign with an NBA team.  I, for one, don't enjoy watching guys with high school-level skills playing at the highest professional level in on-the-job training.