According to MSNBC, there are 27,500 high schools in the United States. It's logical to assume that about 99% have a basketball team. And so 27,500 times 12 is about...

330,000 male high school basketball players at any given time.

There are 312 teams in division I college ball. That means there's less then 4,000 spots for these 330,000 players.

The NBA has 60 draft selections.

34 of them make the team.

34 out of 330,000...but WAIT...we didn't figure in overseas players who the NBA has almost as many as American born.

So let's cut that in half.

16.

The odds are 16 out of 330,000 of you making the -- BUT WAIT --

What about all those high school players who go right to the pros? Alot of them are the best in the league, Jermaine O'Neal, Kobe, Darius Miles, they'll take your spot for sure. And if they're not foreign born, then that's essentially the top 9 picks of the draft.

So that's 16 minus 9.

7.

The odds are 7 in 330,000 of a real real real good 14-year old basketball player of making it to the NBA.

You ever heard of Gerry McNamara? Well he played up at Syracuse with Carmelo Anthony and they won the 2003 NCAA title. And McNamara was their second option. He looked alot like Neil Reed but with real pudgy cheeks.

Anyway...

Gerry McNamara as a sixth grader literally creamed all the eighth graders at his school. I don't know the specifics, one-on-one or team play or organized competition, but absolutely NONE of the eighth graders or coaches or CHICKS had any doubts that this sixth grader was the best.

Gerry McNamara was not drafted.

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So that means that the 1992 Dream Team, guys who are at the top of this league for many many years at a time...that's like all these odds mentioned times 8 or 9 of being Stockton, Jordan, Bird, Barkley, Ewing, etc.

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