Dept. of Not Getting It

The NBA has a rookie-transition program — mandatory for all first-year players — in which the young men are schooled for four days in what to do and not to do as proud professionals.

On the what-not-to-do list is getting caught with drugs.

Mario Chalmers and Darrell Arthur of Kansas had begun the seminar, but before they could digest that particular what-not, they were caught with weed — and women — in their hotel rooms and tossed out of the program.

Unlike the weed, the women were legal, though having them in their rooms violated program rules.

Besides being bounced from the program, Chalmers and Arthur allegedly were fined $20,000 each and might start the NBA season on the suspended list.

Here’s the kicker: since they were booted out of this year’s program, Chalmers and Arthur will have to attend the seminar again — next year.