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Point guard Trae Golden did what most anyone his age would do when presented with a six-figure offer to continue his basketball career. He laughed. Of course he laughed. He hadn't even started 10th grade yet and someone was already promising a free education at a prestigious university and the chance to play ball in the most esteemed collegiate conference, the ACC. I was working out in the gym," says Golden, who plays at McEachern High in suburban Atlanta. "My coach said, 'Clemson wants to talk to you.' They said, 'We really want you to come down to the school, and we want to offer you a scholarship.' I was like, 'Offer who a scholarship?' From then on, a lot of them started doing that."
At an age when Michael Jordan still wasn't good enough to make his varsity team and Kobe Bryant was trying to shake the soccer from his system after moving from Italy, Golden had scholarship offers from Florida, Kentucky, Louisville, Texas, Georgia, Tennessee and Georgia Tech. Oh, and Ohio State, the school he will be attending when classes begin in the fall -- of 2010. By then, we'll be almost two years into Hillary Clinton's presidency.
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I read this in time magazine. There were a couple of 9th graders asked to play for some universities...