Do you need 4 years of Division 1 College Ball to be an All-Star?

do you need 4 years of a college education to get a job if your NBA career doesn't work out?

you bet your ass.

 

depends...what is the life like for players who play abroad and in other leagues?

 

If you were good enough to have people draft you when you're an underclassman, then you're definitely good enough to make a few quick millions. You don't have to play 15 years in the nba to make enough money to be bling blinging it for the rest of your life. Hell, Big country reeves could retire right now and he can straight chill for the rest of his life. What has HE done for his team??? NOTHING. I think he played 4 years though.

Point is...you got enough skills to be drafted early? then there's very little chance you're gonna need a job afterwards with the ridiculous amounts of money that they pay players nowadays. But there's always a chance

 

I know enough people without college degrees that make decent livings to not worry about it. In fact, I have friends doing just fine without high school diplomas. The college degree definitely helps, but it isn't the only way to be successful.

 

Depends on what your definitions of "decent living" and "successful" are. You could be working for minimum wage in a meat factory in the middle of kansas and make a decent or even comfortable living. But if you were making min. wage in an expensive area like Silicon Valley or the Bay Area in California, you'd be on welfare for sure. Yeah, I guess it depends on where you live too.

 

In Australia Basketball isn't really a major sport - but each team is allowed 2 "imports" (non-Aussie players). These imports are generally relied upon to be one of the best players on the team and get paid enough for them to get a decent living.

Currently the most "high-profile" import would be Darnell Mee (he was actually drafted first round!) - but there's plenty of them here who weren't drafted at all and just wouldn't make an NBA squad. There's the odd player like Stephen Jackson or Ray Owes who goes back to America to play in the NBA, but the large majority of them play here for a few years and then play in another world league over our winter (non-basketball season).

The living isn't bad for these guys - they'd probably make around 100K per year + endorsements and would make at least that in any other world league. As I said, basketball's not a big sport here (especially not financially) and so players make much less then they would anywhere else - but hey, 100K a year isn't bad - considerably more than a college graduate would get...

I know that Nate Huffman (7'0 center who the Rockets looked at a few years ago as a free agent) who played in Israel was making the equivalent of $2.2million US (which is why we didn't sign him for a season).

If you're good enough to warrant even remote consideration for the draft then you're good enough to make a living playing professional basketball!!

 

if you are know what you want and are discipline enough, you will succeed in what ever you do. going to college is to learn to be discipline and to follow orders. high school shouldn't go to college if they are good enough to be drafted in the first round because they won't have to worry about getting injury and will learn more about the pro game by sitting on the bench than playing in college games.