At around 7:30pm Thursday night in Brooklyn, NY, 30 young
men will have their lives changed forever when David Stern calls their name to
play in the NBA. These 30 young men (some even younger than me, which I find
very upsetting) will see the gratifying culmination of years of summer
basketball camps, AAU travel teams, and countless hours in the gym in front of
the eyes of millions of fans across the world. Also, most will strike it rich
in an instant. But how rich you may ask? Well, I’m here to explain the pretty
big difference between going first overall (such as Kentucky’s Nerlens Noel,
Maryland’s Alex Len, or Georgetown’s Otto Porter) and going fifth or lower.
