College or The Pros

In today's society it's important for every boy and girl to get their college degree. Unless you are about 6 foot 5 inches tall and incredibly talented at putting a basketball through a round cylinder ten feet off the ground.

There is a debate right now going on in my topic, about guys going to the NBA after one year of a college education. Some analysts are wanting it to be how it use to be, they can go to the NBA directly after high school.

Here is a website I found about this topic.
http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=NBA_Draft

What do you guys think players should do? Or what should the rule be?

Cheater

You may or may not recognize this man above, but this man is Tim Donaghy, he is/was a referee in the NBA, who retired after 17 years in the NBA. He got caught for betting on games he was refing, and other NBA games as well. Here are some of his credentials:

Age: 40
NBA experience: Referee in 772 regular-season games in 13 seasons
2005-06 season: 63 games; team officiated most often -- Trail Blazers (7 games)
2006-07 season: 68 games; team officiated most often -- Heat and 76ers (8 games)
High school: Cardinal O'Hara (Springfield, Pa.; one of four NBA refs to attend O'Hara)
College: Villanova, 1989
Of note: In his first dozen seasons as an NBA referee, worked 704 regular-season games and 15 playoffs ... Also has seven years of CBA officiating experience ... Played varsity baseball at Villanova ... Participated in the NBA Read to Achieve program.


-- Sources: NBA officials media guide and the Elias Sports Bureau

Here is another website to read more about what he did:
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/20269972/

David Stern has to worry about all sorts of things in the NBA, but gambling and cheating in the NBA is one of the larger topics that I could personally think of, and what better for an example but this man.

Here's a game he referee'd in the NBA playoffs:

Defining of "Air Jordan"

With the upcoming NBA All Star Weekend, I figured a video of one of the greatest Dunk Contests ever was due. So here is a little something from the eighties, with some of the all time greats in basketball, Dominique "the Human Highlight Reel" Wilkins, and Michael "Air" Jordan.

OWNAGE.

I was looking around at the different owners. I have come to find out that majority of teams are owned by businesses instead of by one or two people. Here is the list of people if you guys are interested.

http://hoopshype.com/owners.htm

It's interesting to see what the team values are of each team as well as the net worths. For instance the Owner of the Portland Trail Blazers, Paul Allen, is also the cofounder of a small company called Microsoft......:D