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The home version of the Detroit Pistons has been unbeatable in the early going. The road version has been awful.Unfortunately for the Denver Nuggets, they face the Pistons at The Palace on Saturday.Detroit has won its three home games by an average of 14.7 points. The Pistons are 0-2 on the road, including a 109-101 loss to the lowly-regarded Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday.The Nets racked up 71 first-half points and held off the Pistons late charge.They outplayed us for 48 minutes in every aspect of the game, Detroit coach Stan Van Gundy said. Every game is a new game and we brought nothing to the table defensively and we couldnt guard anybody, so of course its disappointing.Not surprisingly, the Pistons tend to play a lot better when their All-Star center makes a big impact. Andre Drummond averaged 13.7 points and 18.7 rebounds in the home victories. He had just six points and six rebounds in 25 minutes at Brooklyn before Van Gundy benched him most of the second half.We gave him the first half and the first seven minutes in the second half and he was just, in my opinion, bringing absolutely nothing to the game, Van Gundy said. I dont know if he was tired or what the deal was, but he didnt bring any energy to the game.Denver got off to a lethargic start in its last game and trailed Minnesota by 12 after the first quarter. The Nuggets (2-2) took the lead by outscoring the Timberwolves 33-14 in the third quarter, then hung on for a 102-99 victory on Thursday.That makes the Nuggets 1-1 on their current five-game road trip but coach Michael Malone was not impressed.We need everybody ready to play, starting in Detroit, Malone told the Denver Post. Spotting teams the leads were spotting them -- 15 points, 19 points in Toronto -- were always playing uphill, were always playing catch-up and thats not a good way to play.The reserves bailed out the Nuggets by outscoring the Timberwolves bench 45-23.We just lucked up and got the win, but weve got to learn how to play for 48 minutes, second-year point guard Emmanuel Mudiay said to the Denver Post. Thats the main thing. It seems like the third quarter is the biggest quarter where we come out and jump on teams. Weve got to figure out how to play like that for the whole game.The Nuggets backcourt has been thinned by injuries. Gary Harris sat out Thursdays game with a strained right groin while swingman Will Barton has a sprained left ankle. 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But after four years, it was a financial relief when his son didnt make the team.I was kind of dreading the upcoming season, knowing Id go deeper in the hole, said Richmeier, a single father in Phoenix.Competitive youth sports in the U.S. are rising in popularity. The exclusive club and travel teams come with added coaching and intense competition, as well as much higher costs than a school or community team.A survey released Monday by TD Ameritrade of 1,000 parents whose children are involved in such elite endeavors finds most pay between $100 and $499 a month. For one in five, its more than $1,000.Some parents can absorb the cost, but others are working second jobs, depleting their savings or otherwise compromising their own financial well-being to fund the activities. In the survey, 60 percent say the expense has them concerned about their ability to save for the future.Parents largely say they dont regret the spending because of the physical, mental and emotional benefits for their children. But financial and athletic experts suggest parents make a more objective assessment of at what cost the kids are pursuing these dreams.Of nearly 8 million U.S. students currently participating in high school athletics, only 480,000 compete at the college level at an NCAA school, according to the organization. Few from that group will move on to compete at the Olympic or professional level.And parents hoping for a scholarship to offset their sacrifices may be disappointed. NCAA schools awarded more than $2.9 billion in athletics scholarships last year. But a full ride is rare, and a partial scholarship may come to a fraction of what it cost to get a child to that level.The presenting of those numbers doesnt discourage many people, its in the American character to go after it, said Tom Farrey, who leads the Sports & Society Program at the Aspen Institute. Farrey says the economic hurdles of the elite teams leave many kids behind, and its not always good for those who do participate.Parents are coming from a place of love, they want what is best for their kids, said Travis Dorsch, founding director of the Families in Sport Lab at Utah State University. Unfortunately they are misinformed.Specializing in just one sport early, common among elite team players, leads to greater burnout and an increased likelihood of injury, Dorsch said. And he found that families who made larger financial investmeents in a childs athletic participation led to kids feeling more pressure, less enjoyment and a lower commitment to the sport.ddddddddddddOf the families in Dorschs research, which spanned many income and sport participation levels, more than half invested less than 1 percent of their gross income. But nearly 15 percent invested between 2 percent and 5 percent, and 3 percent invested more than 5 percent of their gross income.Even for those who can afford it, there is stress.Lisa Williams of Wilmette, Illinois, sees the $2,000 or so she spends each season on her daughters soccer team not as an investment in a sports future but in her childs skill set off the field. In her affluent neighborhood there is a certain expectation of excellence and the assumption if your child plays sports that theyll do so on a travel or elite team.Some of it is parent peer pressure, do you want to be the parent who doesnt send their kid to the extra training and the summer camps and the extra clinics? Williams said. You dont want people to think, `Oh, she doesnt love her kid.That pressure is part of a shift in parenting and culture over recent decades, experts say.We tend to get very emotionally invested in the life of our kids in sports, it makes us more vulnerable to making questionable decisions, said Mark Hyman, who teaches in the business of sports program at George Washington University.He notes that many people have an economic interest in parents spending more on sports -- from elite coaches to the facilities that host the tournaments. So parents may be urged to make decisions that are not based on neutral input.The challenge is to recognize sports for kids are great but they are great because they give you these positive lessons they can carry on through life, Hyman said. You should never do sports as an investment. ... If you do that you are almost certain to be disappointed and to turn your kids off sports.Debbie Amorelli of Upton, Massachusetts, says she wrestles with how much she and her husband spend on hockey participation for her 17-year old son, who hopes to play at college. The fees, gear and travel add up to about $10,000 a year. They pay for it using an inheritance from her father, but without it Amorelli says she doesnt know what they would have done.The experiences he is having are priceless, she said. But we keep saying to him: This is essentially coming out of your college fund, this is money we could be putting away.Amorellis son, a junior in high school, may need to keep playing for a year or two after graduation to make a college team. Thats an expense theyre unsure about.We have no idea if this is going to turn into anything other than literally money down the drain, she said. ' ' '