[valentine]

So I am a bit confuse regarding the following rules. So a player has to be in college for atleast 1 year, yet a guy like Jeremy Tyler waited for over 2 years to finally be draft eligible. You have guys like Valanciunas and Brismack that are 18-19 years old, yet they are also allowed to be in the draft.

Why wasn’t Jeremy Tyler allowed to be in the draft last year, when he was already 1 year removed from highschool and was atleast 18-19 years old last year?

Derrick Favors was 1 year removed from highschool, 1 year in college, but was 19yrs old when drafted.

[delfamParticipant]

 cause Tyler left high school after his junior year

[goneParticipant]

Because Tyler, colt iverson, and their gang of bandits were involved in the "Great San Diego" scandal……obviously

[4th dimension]

But Brismack never even attended highschool so how is Tyler any different from Brismack’s status? And Tyler was about the same age as Brismack a year ago and was already 1 year removed from high school.

[Scottoant93Participant]

yeah but there is also a question mark of if he is actually 18 years old, tyler ingle reported scouts think he maybe 20-23 or in his mid 20s. SO thats not a good example to compare tyler to. To make it simple look at it this way, you have to to be one year removed from the time you would normally graduate high school(17-18). Plus if tyler entered last year he may have gone undrafted due to lack of maturity and putting up numbers

[4th dimension]

But thats still yet to be proven. If he is indeed 18 (which I do doubt), he would still be eligible. So why wasn’t Tyler last year? That’s the question Im trying to get at, not Brismack’s real age.

[sheltwon3Participant]

Players in the US get screwed versus players overseas.  The system and rules are messed up but the thing is college wants it’s players to stay and fans want their players to stay.  Most fans could care less about some foreign player they have no idea about.  It is more about politics than being fair.

[Scottoant93Participant]

I think tyler dropped out after his junior year. So consider his time with the isreal team his senior year, and his team in japan his one year of college.That should clear it up

[max_sessionsParticipant]

John Wall was a 5th year senior and it didn’t make a bit of difference.  It isn’t age, it is some invisible NCAA barrier that has been determinined by the league.

[TeamShowtimeLakersParticipant]

in order to enter the draft your graduating class of high school has to be at least one year removed from high school…thats why jeremy tyler could not enter the draft last year because his high school class was 2010 and now this year they will be 1 year removed from high school so he can enter the 2011 nba draft.

[Scottoant93Participant]

He probably would have been draft eliglable but he didn’t apply for consideration heres the article

http://www.aolnews.com/2009/04/14/john-wall-eligible-for-2009-draft/

Also heres the requirements for applying for the draft

The player (A) is or will be at least 19 years of age during the calendar year in which the Draft is held, and (B) with respect to a player who is not an international player (defined below), at least one (1) NBA Season has elapsed since the player’s graduation from high school (or, if the player did not graduate from high school, since the graduation of the class with which the player would have graduated had he graduated from high school);

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