Hardship Case

There was a time when the National Basketball Association tried to protect High School Students by not allowing them to be drafted into the NBA.

Enter the Hardship Case…

• High School Students saw the money and decided they wanted the money.
• They found lawyers and/or agents (or lawyers and/or agents found them) who would take the NBA to court and claim infringement, mitigating circumstances, mental anguish or some such things.
• The lawyers/agents contended that the poor high school students were destitute and needed money to support their struggling mother or struggling father or struggling brothers or struggling sisters or struggling lawyers/agents.
• The lawyers/agents had to come up with a hook (they are good at that) so they called their client’s need to leave high school and join the NBA a “Hardship Case”.

It worked like a charm. In short order the lawyers/agents had lots of Hardship Clients (Moses Malone, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, etc.). All of a sudden there was a steady stream of kid basketball players in the NBA who were using their multimillion dollar paychecks to stock their new multi-car garages with more cars than they needed.

Almost at once they had lots of “friends” around them ready to help them spend their Hardship Money. For most of them spending money came easy.

All too soon all too many of them found themselves looking around and wondering where their friends and their money had gone. For some reason the friends leave as soon as the money leaves.

Having watched so many of these hardship cases come and go I now see what the real rush to get out of high school was all about. These young men were really anxious to become…

Broke And Destitute Former NBA Super Star Millionaires

We have another name for these people in our society. We call them…

High School Dropouts

Would I kid u?