NBA is strictly business

Posted Oct 22, 2008
In their comfortable position with the Tar Heels, Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington and Danny Green are campus royalty. Being a basketball player, on a good team, is a big deal anywhere, let alone Chapel Hill. But the NBA long ago stopped making draft decisions based on college performance and started judging players by potential and specific skills. To NBA scouts and executives, they're not big men on campus. They're cuts of meat to be prodded and processed. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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