In a 2000 release, recording artist Nelly rapped: “I’m draftin’ ’em outta high school straight into the pros.” That was a reference to a then-growing trend among prep basketball stars: Bypassing college and entering the pro ranks as teenagers. Just a year prior to Nelly’s release, Picayune, Mississippi, basketball star Jonathan Bender undertook his own … Continued

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