To go or not to go

Jazz coach Jerry Sloan was asked recently if he thought sporadically used reserve swingman C.J. Miles — a second-round draft choice who jumped straight to the NBA from Dallas Skyline High School as an 18-year-old in 2005 — would have been better off honoring his commitment to play in college.
“I think all players would be,” said Sloan, whose Jazz are in Dallas on Thursday to face the Mavericks. “There (are) exceptions to that, but there are very few Kevin Garnetts out there in the world.
“There are a lot of guys, I think, (for whom) college is a benefit to them,” he added. “Teach them a little discipline, and understanding that things don’t always go your way when you’re in college. You come in here (to the NBA), it appears everything’s supposed to go your way because you make a lot of money. You don’t make the money in college, so the basketball — you try to get it to go your way.”
Curiously, Garnett — in a year the NBA reportedly is considering requiring its future draft entrants to be two years out of high school rather than just one — is one of the league?s top four MVP candidates this season.
Two of the three others are Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland’s LeBron James, both of whom also did not play a lick of college ball.
The fourth: New Orleans point guard Chris Paul, who played at Wake Forest.
Miles, who spurned an offer from the University of Texas, has often said he does not regret his decision to join the Jazz.