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This is the real reason everyone is losing their minds over Young. College basketball has been designed over the course of 100-plus years to exalt the team above the individual players, which explains why Ben Simmons couldn’t carry LSU to the NCAA tournament and why refs love to bail out unathletic short dudes who just grab their nuts and fall over when they’re about to get dunked on. Unlike the NBA, the structure of the sport is such that the real stars are the institutions and/or coaches, and the players are simply cogs in the machine who are just there to get a free education and do their part to bring glory to their schools before going pro in something other than sports. So when guys who are so great that they break through this mold and transcend the NCAA machine come along, it’s a massive deal.
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