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Take the bait or wait?

By Chad Ford
ESPN Insider

Thursday, February 3, 2005

It's now a fact of life that the greatest lifeline in any NBA draft is college underclassmen. By the time most players reach their senior seasons, their class already has been picked clean. While every year there are a handful of nongraduates who make bad decisions about declaring for the draft, for the most part, the NBA embraces college underclassmen. Since high school stud Kevin Garnett broke the college barrier in 1995 and declared for the NBA draft directly from high school, the number o ...

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