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Taking baby steps
Taking baby steps
Even Tracy McGrady and Kobe Bryant weren't immediate stars, which is why Mike Kahn likes bumping the minimum age to 20.
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Is age just a number?
Blazers Blog — ... America. Or Australia. Set up shop there, get paid by a big international club and play a couple years to sharpen your game for the NBA. You'll get a better education in life than you would getting passed through phony classes to stay eligible, maybe learn a new language, a new style of play. And you'll stick it to guys like Stern and Brand, who can barely run their own houses but want to invade yours and tell you what your future's going to look like. Mike Kahn of FoxSports.com, Taking baby steps toward solving age issue: Just consider the possibility of the six to 10 players ...

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