You are making my point, Latino Man. I do not believe, ala Obama, in manipulating the free market towards any one enterprise. If Americans want to reward NBA knuckleheads with obscene salaries over say, professors and border agents, so be it. But it says a lot about our priorities that this is so. What's more, an increasing number of black athletes are now calling for all NBA players to attend at least two years of college before entering the pros. It helps them develop humility and mental toughness, and prepares them for a post-basketball career. Talk to Kareem, Elgin Baylor, and Bill Russell on the subject. As we struggle to improve inner city education (see my documentary, www.crottyskids.com), it doesn't help that society honors guys who never even went to college, and probably cheated their way through high school (the way that LeBron mangles the English language suggests to me the dude had major help with his English class, if he took it all). The fact is, after he retires it's unlikely that LeBron will go back and get that college degree and learn how to talk like a truly educated citizen. He will be happy to be surrounded by his obsequious sycophants. That's okay with me. In America man should be free to live as he pleases. But we should also have the right to exclude the willfully uneducated in our midst, especially if such cretins delight in remaining vacuous, shallow, and benighted. One way I create that exclusion is by tuning out the pathetic NBA. And, if I was an NBA owner, I would apply a strict cultural literacy test. No what your basketball talent, if you fail the standardized test, you are off the team. We should apply such tests for driving licenses and other perks of American life. Then maybe our citizens will start to take seriously the importance of critical thinking. And we as a nation will rediscover greatness again.