Leon Smith is back in the NBA via a 10-day contract with the Atlanta Hawks. Hopefully, things will work out better for him this time around.

You may recall that three years ago, Smith became the proverbial poster child for everything wrong with high school players skipping college to turn pro. He was the unwitting vehicle with which college basketball's self-righteous torch-bearers came out of the woodwork to take a few pot-shots at the NBA. Unfairly and in a self-serving manner, we might add.