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An age limit is un-American

By Skip Bayless
Page 2

Monday, May 16, 2005

This is strictly one white man's opinion. Though all but one of the NBA's owners are white – while most of the players are black – I do not believe the owners' push for a 20-year-old NBA age limit is racially motivated. That's what former 18-year-old first-round pick Jermaine O'Neal suggested recently. And that's what Billy Hunter, who heads the NBA players' union, echoed the other day. Hunter said, "I'm still philosophically opposed to [an age limit] and I can't understand why peopl ...

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