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With Rondae Hollis-Jefferson and Brandon Ashley announcing this week they are leaving school early to enter the NBA draft, it brings to mind the early-entrant players before them from Arizona.
Sixteen players before them entered the NBA draft before concluding their senior seasons. They have experienced various forms of success or, to be kind, lack of success.
The following three units are separated in the four units: “Should Have Stayed”, “Made Right Move”, “Argument Either Way” and “Jury Still Out”.
SHOULD HAVE STAYED
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ARGUMENT EITHER WAY
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JURY STILL OUT
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Site founder and award-winning sports journalist Javier Morales has published his first e-book, “The Highest Form of Living”, a fiction piece about a young man who overcomes a troubled upbringing without his lost father and wayward mother through basketball and hope. His hope is realized through the sport he loves. Basketball enables him to get past his fears. His experience on the court indirectly brings him closer to his parents in a unique, heartfelt way. Please order it at Amazon (for only $4.99) by clicking on the photo:
Key to the graphic to the left:
Cl — Class they last completed at Arizona before going to NBA
Yrs — Years in the NBA
G — Games in the NBA
Salary — Approximate total earned as listed by Basketball-Reference.com
Brandon Ashley set to join ranks of Marcus Williams and Grant Jerrett in terms of quality of NBA decision.
— Jody Oehler (@jodyoehler) April 8, 2015
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ALLSPORTSTUCSON.com publisher, writer and editor Javier Morales is a former Arizona Press Club award winner. He has also written articles for Bleacher Report and Lindy’s College Sports.
