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DRAFT RULE: Basketball HOFer Oscar Robertson Sunday "denounced the [NBA] for its rule that players must be a year removed from high school before entering the draft." Robertson: "If you can go fight in a war, why can't you go play basketball? Tennis players do it. Baseball players do it. So why not basketball?" Robertson added, "Every time you see something NBA, it's something negative. ... That's because of the press. ... There are a lot of basketball players that do great things" (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 6/30). In N.Y., William Rhoden noted five of the first seven players selected in last week's NBA Draft were freshmen. Rhoden: "The NBA can spin that any way it pleases, but it exposes a disconnect." Going to college for one year "isn't the answer." Pistons President of Basketball Operations Joe Dumars, who last month earned a degree from McNeese State Univ., "will hopefully prompt other young athletes to earn theirs." Rhoden: "Scrupulous agents should insist that as a condition of taking them on as clients, athletes should be willing to take courses toward a degree within three years of signing their first contract" (N.Y. TIMES, 6/29).

DONAGHY: Federal prosecutors Friday in a court filing alleged that former NBA referee Tim Donaghy has "overstated the extent of his cooperation with the government." But in N.Y., Howard Beck reported the prosecutors "did not specifically refute any of the recent charges Donaghy made about NBA officiating" (N.Y. TIMES, 6/28).

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