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Wendell Carter’s Mom Blasts College Basketball

On Monday, Wendell Carter’s mom ripped college basketball a new one.

Speaking to the Knight Commission, Mrs. Carter compared college basketball to slavery and prison.

There’s some valid criticism here, some hyperbole and some food for thought. Let’s dispense with the hyperbole first.

The comparison to slavery or prison is, at the least, overwrought. No one is forced to play college basketball. It is still the most certain path to the NBA but it’s hardly the only one. The G League is an increasingly viable option. Several players have now gone overseas for a year or two rather than playing college basketball and come back and made the league.