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- Limit the number of high schoolers that can be taken in the draft. For example, let's say they can only be taken with lottery picks. This would hopefully cut down on the "one and dones" who are turning the term "student-athlete" into a joke.
- Require everybody else to be 2 years removed from school before playing NBA ball.
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I have to agree with ya Belcher... If we allow kids coming straight out of High School, what about kids who don't go to High School, what then? I think giving them 2 yrs removed allows them to mature a bit more before receiving Millions of $$. A kid comes straight of High School, gets his money, parties and then becomes nothing in the NBA, What happens to the Team that took that High Schooler... I know there will be that very very few that would take being in the NBA more seriously than others. And its the Others I would worry about.
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Great idea, you have just ruined the highschool game. If you think players are selfish now, tell them they have to beat out hundreds of other high-school players for 14 spots in the draft. And you have opened the NBA up to a lwasuit. The NBA has to prove that it's restriction has merit, and setting the number of high-schoolers to 14 is completely arbitrary. You can't say we are keeping them out because they can't play well, but these 14 can. That rule would go against the very consept for keeping them out. Besides the point is, high schoolers can play and they are successful, there is no need to keep anyone out.
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I agree with both comments, but I also question the very premise of Parrish's article. Who ever said that the college rule was an attempt to protect kids? I think Parrish confuses the perceived need for teenagers to learn the game with his own ideas about what the rule means. The rule made college a de facto farm system for the NBA and if anything, the protection was for the NCAA, not the high schoolers. Otherwise, the college game would have become a shadow of its former self, as more top talents went pro and skipped the NCAA altogether. So, the rule is about business, not about the kids themselves. If Parrish would acknowledge that, then he could move past articles like this one. Of course, what would he write about then?
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Stop calling these guys kids. These are grown men making grown men decisions. IKf they mess up their lives then so be it, every man has the right to succeed and fail on his own terms....nice avatar by the way.
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Otherwise, the college game would have become a shadow of its former self, as more top talents went pro and skipped the NCAA altogether.
I'm going to have to COMPLETELY disagree with you there. College basketball is not about 5, 10, or even 20 incredible freshmen. As long as their are great coaches, great programs, and some decent players, college basketball will always be great and have millions of fans.
You could argue that freshmen played a somewhat significant part in the game this season because the best player on one of the teams in the final game was a freshmen, but you're a fool if you think college basketball wouldn't have been any good without Beasley, Rose, Mayo, Gordon, Love, and the others who probably would have entered the draft.
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If you think players are selfish now, tell them they have to beat out hundreds of other high-school players for 14 spots in the draft.
Two years ago, high-schoolers were competing for 60 NBA draft spots. Currently, players are competing for spots at the elite programs. I don't see how limiting the ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM number of high-schoolers taken in the NBA draft to 14 would vastly increase selfish play at the high school level. If anything it would decrease it from what it was a few years ago when there were 60 spots available each year. All it does is give those players who have no business (or desire) to play college ball the opportunity to jump straight to the NBA.
Let me just say this. Just because there are 14 spots available for kids coming out of high school doesn't guarantee that there would be 14, 10, or even 5 taken each year. A lottery pick is still a HUGE investment for an NBA team to make on a player that has yet to prove himself against serious competition.
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