Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.

People will always go to games. And not just Duke versus North Carolina. Even Appalachian State against Chatworth.

The NCAA wants to control the images; they say they own your image forever. If you look through this façade, it's crazy.

Now the kids are portrayed as dirty when they talk to an agent, a shoe guy, some hanger-on. Well, it's only natural that people are circling them - there are millions of dollars involved.

One-and-done is the most damaging thing in college basketball. It brings money into the college game, because it kickstarts the bidding war. When you know a kid can't turn pro and is going to go to school for one year and then go pro, that's when you see everyone going to games and courting players.

Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.

After the NBA and ABA merged, players could come out after high school. Still, there were only a few cases prior to Kevin Garnett coming out in 1995, so Nike and the other companies were only involved in the college game.