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| | washingtonpost.com: NBA Can Be a Bit Short-Sighted |
 | | Nelson, the consensus national college player of the year, the stout, little man who spun Saint Joseph's on his fingertips all winter and took Philadelphians on an implausible ride until they fell just short of the Final Four, sat there at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, half-smiling, half-disillusioned, holding his young son. |
 | | You wanted the father of Jameer Nelson to buy into the plot, to discredit the warped system that allowed all those uppity young kids to make more money than his mature son. |
 | | Floyd Nelson could have bought into the outrage, could have been as vocal as Dick Vitale, yammering on about "injustice." The old Marine had the right to be upset at this system. |
| www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A3930-2004Jun24?language=printer (995 words) |
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