Mark Murphy ?@Murf56
Source: Austin Rivers may be part of Green 3-team deal, but he's not headed to Celtics - http://tinyurl.com/n7m4fhe
thats not a bad thing
rivers is another example of a kid who should have stayed in school and worked on his game
That sounds good in theory, but that typically drops the draft stock of a kid. The NBA makes no sense to me: draft a kid who is 19 based upon the hopes he has potential in 3-5 years VERSUS drafting a kid who stayed in school, who is 22, and has a more mature polished game. What you have suggested is intelligent, but the NBA doesn't work on intelligence. Rivers would have seen his draft stock DROP if he had stayed in school because of that's the way it works. Yet a kid like Ryan Gomes got more accomplished in his career (for example) than some kid who was drafted 30 picks ahead of him.