Hardly a tough choice to make

The wimpy-minded commentators of America apparently believe Greg Oden and Kevin Durant have it so tough.

These two freshmen stars are dealing with the unthinkable pressure of either staying in college or accepting the riches of the NBA.

You are urged not to snicker at this point.

Oden and Durant must decide whether to return to their thrones in college basketball or, darn it, ink a multimillion-dollar contract with the NBA.

There you have it: the tough destiny before Oden and Durant.

And it is really, really tough if they are repeatedly asked to reveal their immediate plans.

Imagine that. There are people who actually care to know the summer plans of Oden and Durant. Isn’t that awful? Just think if they were not basketball players, no one other than their family would care one iota about their plans.

The line is forming now for those looking to sign up for this threadbare existence.

Let’s see here: hang out in college another year or take the money and run.

Most of us have never been in this position, because we either were not skilled or tall enough. But it is not a position anyone with two brain cells would find objectionable.

Oden and Durant are poised to make it in a way that plenty of people in the rest of the world would find incredible.

You mean all you have to be able to do is toss the orange ball through the orange cylinder and you will be set for life?

That is pretty much it.

Other companies will be throwing money in the direction of Oden and Durant whenever they decide to go to the NBA.

LeBron James cut a big-money deal with Nike before the NBA Draft in 2003.

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