[Kwame23Participant]

The NBA Draft Eligiblity Needs To Be Fixed. They Should Allow High Schoolers To Go To NBA & If You Decide For College, You Have To Stay For Two Years.

 

Thoughts?

[Meditated StatesParticipant]

Reasonable
I for one never liked a rule telling an 18 year old he cant earn money doing a job someone will hire him to do. The individual risk his fortune and his families rise from an undesirable area so they can get dough while he plays. Don’t like the free education theory either it bull sh!t.

[sheltwon3Participant]

Kwame, I actually like that very much but the rule the way it is seems to be working for a lot of players and the NBA so I doubt they change.  The only people hurt in this is the NCAA and their fans.

[B FreeParticipant]

That has been my opinion all along but I take it one further saying those players who enter out of highschool should  have to play in the NBDL until at least the All Star Break. This would obviously make the need for each team have there own NBDL team setup with there own coaching staffs and trainers so they can get familarized with the system while getting actual playing time that most of them wouldn’t recieve early in there careers, which was one of the problems last time highschoolers could enter they didn’t develope into the players they could have been but had there growth stunted by lack of playing time.

[TyroberParticipant]

 I like it how it is now. It lets teams see these guys against real competition before they draft them. What I would be in favor of is if they stay in school longer than a year let them have a shorter rookie contract for every year they stay in school. Reward them for the years they spent in school.

[khaled_a_dParticipant]

Regardless the whole debate about 18 years old guys not able to make their own decision VS the NBA is a business and requiring an experience from your employee is their right I like it the way it is,simply you see all American players competing at the same level (college)which give scouts better look for the player and it will be better evaluating them you know ,w/o this rule Harrison Barnes and Andre Drummond would have been probably the 1st pick in 2 consecutive drafts which was going to be just wrong

but I am totally against extending the rule to 2 years

[Kwame23Participant]

Yeah It Should Be Discussed More. I Know It Helps The NCAA But The One & Done Hurts A Little More. Say Sometime In The Near Future, The Best High School Prospect Get’s Injured As Freshman In College, Has To Stay All 4 Years In College, Doesn’t Get Drafted. I Know College Helps But If You Get Two Years For One, It Would Bring Second Year Rivalries, Sophmores Coming From Nowhere, Alot Of Better NCAA Games.

[joecheck88Participant]

 I’ve been a proponent of that for years now. It’s similar to college baseball, where I believe it is 3 years in college. I look at this HS class in the McDonalds all American game I don’t see anyone that could make that jump. I have no problem with the NBA having an age rule. Some say you can fight for your country at 18 so you should be able to go pro. I don’t buy that. You can’t drink at 18, your car insurance rates are higher at 18, and the NBA isn’t the government. If they want to say 18 year olds aren’t ready then they have every right to do so. And let’s quit acting like going to college for one year as a star is a bad thing. I’m sure all freshman are having a blast. They have plenty of time to be adults, let them be kids for awhile. 

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