41.   With the increase of younger players entering the league, we might see more of the same excuses in the future.

42.   Quarterbacks like the young Favre -- with dizzying physical gifts and considerably less acumen -- enter the league every year, and most disappear.

43.   -- divulged that efforts aimed at establishing a minimum age or otherwise deterring high schoolers and college underclassmen from entering the league have not progressed.

44.   Barring an overwhelming trade offer, the Spurs will select Duncan and welcome aboard one of the most well-rounded players to enter the league in years.

45.   He entered the league one season after Wilkens began coaching.

46.   Next Wednesday, the NBA draft will make millionaires of a few dozen very young men, the youngest crop of players ever to enter the league.

47.   Testing positive, however, does not prevent a player from entering the league.