Usually it's good to be a senior. You get to beat up underclassmen and you rule the school. Unless you play basketball in college. If you're a senior and still playing basketball in college, then quite frankly, you suck. Really, really hard.For the first time ever, the Associated Press named an All-America squad that had no seniors on it. And considering the AP has been naming an All-America squad since the 1947-48 season, that's quite an achievement.
Suck it David Stern.
The squad features North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough, Kansas State's Michael Beasley, UCLA's Kevin Love, D.J. Augustin of Texas, and Chris Douglas-Roberts of Memphis.
The only one I'm really going to question is Douglas-Roberts, primarily because he's not even the best player on his own team. But nonetheless, it's a solid list. This year also marked the second year in a row that two freshman (Beasley and Rose) made the All-America first team.
You can keep on sucking it Stern.
I admittedly think the NBA rule requiring players to spend a minimum of one year in college is not only ridiculous, but unconstitutional. You're actively preventing someone from making a living, which is against the law.
Stern basically wants colleges to be what they've always been - a free minor league for NBA teams. And he'd prefer to have these kids develop not on his dime, but on someone else's.
Sure, it's a good business model, but it's also illegal. And not only is it illegal, it looks increasingly stupid as seniors are becoming nonexistent quality players in college basketball. I realize people will hit me with the Gerald Green's of the world in arguing that people should spend at least one year in college, but I don't buy it for an instant. Even guys coming out of high school have a right to seek employment, and that's being withheld from them.
I can't wait until we have a first-team All-America squad made up of all freshman, which is eventually going to happen. At that point, it'll be tough for Stern to impose this rule anymore without looking like a complete moron.








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