NBA players still chasing a degree now can do so with help from league’s players association

The missing links of education aren’t just an issue for youths. Even the men who make millions in the NBA hit walls in their post-playing careers.At the Rookie Transition Program last August, which is sponsored by the National Basketball Players Association, Donovan Mitchell sat through seminars on managing money and going into business ventures. Among those seminars were stories of players who had regrets. They had jumped into something too fast they hadn’t understood; they spent mo