Sunday, November 04, 2001 - It has been said that life is about choices: the ones you make and ones you don't make. And if a high school star or top college underclassman isn't positive he will be a high NBA draft pick, the choice he makes not to go pro could save a lot of heartache and eventually earn him a lot of money.

Omar Cook made the tough choice. And now the 19-year-old guard from St. John's, a second-round pick in the 2001 draft acquired by the Denver Nuggets, is looking for work.

"I don't know what I am going to do right now," said