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NBA Draft: AAU Helps American Kids Flunk Basketball 101 - WSJ.com
At Thursday?s NBA draft, some of America?s budding basketball superstars will learn where they will launch their careers. Four months later, when the season begins, many will learn something else: They don?t know how to play basketball.
One system that prepares young American players for the pros, the Amateur Athletic Union, is, by most accounts, broken. Without a rigid minor-league system like baseball?s or the extra seasoning football players get in college, America?s basketball gems increasingly get their training from teams affiliated with the Amateur Athletic Union, a vast national youth-basketball circuit that has groomed many of the sport?s top stars.
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