<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Kid is practically an elder statesman now. The revolution that Kevin Garnett led is nine years old and shows no sign of slowing down. Until Garnett in 1995, no one had successfully made the leap from high school to the NBA for 20 years. A dozen or so have followed him since. Another dozen might try to do so this year alone; as many as seven of them could be taken in the first round of June's draft. On the eve of the playoffs, someone asked commissioner David Stern for the umpteenth time whether the league was in danger of becoming too young. This time, though, Stern skipped the usual lecture about how frustrating it can be trying to get the players' union to agree to a minimum-age limit and said simply, ``That is the reality of the current system. </div> Full Article: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-j...ov=ap&type=lgns
great read. But I think its safe to say the commish was joking when he said <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> ``But I am holding out,'' the league's boss added a moment later, ``against 14-year-olds.'</div>'