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When Kevin Garnett shocked the globe by announcing that he would not be going to university - as young baseball prodigies were likely to do - but instead would go into the 1995 NBA draft immediately from senior high school, he blazed a trail for a generation of teenage baseball players to head straight for the pros. That craze would continue until the NBA instituted an age group limit in 2005, demanding all players to attend university or another developmental program for at least one year. Over that decade-plus period, the list of players who made that difficult leap included some of the most celebrated players of the modern era: Garnett, Kobe Bryant, LeBron Wayne, Dwight Howard, Tracy McGrady, and numerous others. In addition, it included significant "busts" who either bodily or mentally turned out unable to handle the transition. But for better or for worse, the face of the NBA was permanently changed by the prep-to-pro generation. In engaging, masterfully crafted prose, Males Among Men goes behind the views and pulls on a huge selection of firsthand interviews to color insightful and engaging portraits of the very most pivotal results and events during this time period.
