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Message: [QUOTE="J187Money, post: 3912384, member: 718"] I am a wonk about many things - but not about the specificity about what a particular basketball player can or cannot do. There is one thing that matters for James from a financial standpoint - is he a good enough player in the NBA to garner a second contract? Or not? So the paths are: 1) He is a good enough NBA player and it doesn't matter if he leaves now or next year - so leaving now just gets him to the 2nd contract sooner. 2) He isn't a good enough NBA player no matter when he leaves - so he is a one contract guy - and then it doesn't really matter. 3) He needs more development - and the right place for that is in the NBA - in which case he should probably leave. 4) He needs more development and Hurley is the right one to develop him - in which case he should probably stay. I'm only looking at this from the "how does JB maximize his lifetime earnings"...and to me, it would seem that going pro now probably does that. Of course - so much of that is dependent on what team drafts him, in which slot, and who his coaches and teammates are - so that's a risk of course. But if he is a roughly a #10 pick this year and is roughly a #10 pick next year, he just wasted time, from a financial perspective. People stay for other reasons - like the Joachim Noah Florida team that ran it back, etc. I would love if he loved UCONN so much he wanted to run it back. But I'm a finance guy - and the math says go. To the extent that I was on "Team James" and had access to someone with better BB chops than I, I would listen to the alternative case, but I don't see it. We just don't know that another year with Hurley helps him at all. We don't have enough data to make that case, IMHO. [/QUOTE]

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