Collegiate Level And Entering The Nba Draft

The NBA high school draftees are players who have been drafted to the NBA straight out of high school without playing basketball at the college level. Going directly from high school to the professional level is known as going prep-to-pro. Since 2006, they have prohibited high school basketball players by the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, which states, “The age limit for entering the Draft is 19 years of age. U.S. players must also be at least one year removed from high school. A player will meet the 19-year old requirement so long as he turns 19 during the calendar year of the Draft.” (Nba.com) Even though the players are not able to enter the NBA draft right away doesn’t mean they have to attend college. The player is able to decide weather he wants to play in a professional league overseas, or take the year off. It’s a good thing that the NBA sees that education is important, but is a year too early? I believe the NBA should change the rules and make players attended college for at least 2 years, and take away the option for them to play overseas while waiting a year. “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future.” ~Oprah

         The NBA has seen many different players come and go throughout its 50 years of existence. In the last 15 years, there has been a boom of underclassmen leaving college early to enter the NBA draft. The last NBA draft in June, the top ten picks alone were underclassmen(Sports Illustrated, 264). Many more underclassmen are entering the NBA this year. The typical college career for the basketball players is playing until your junior year, then going pro. The NBA and the NCAA must do something in order to keep these young players in college.

Drafted by the NBA at the age of 19, many critics wondered if he would last. Not many kids know how to handle fame, most end up on the never-ending road of drugs and rehab...a cycle that never ends.

The NBA “one-and-done” rule was first implemented in the summer of 2006. This new rule concerns the eligibility for recent high school graduates to forego their eligibility to play college basketball and enter straight into the NBA draft. The informed high school basketball players that they had to be at least one year removed from high school and had to be at least 19 years of age in order to partake in the NBA draft. Currently, the league does not require players to play NCAA basketball as you can be drafted after playing a season overseas. However, for many high school graduates attending college has becomes their only option in pursing the dream to one-day play in the NBA.

$125,000 per year is how much student athletes save by getting a free education,and now they want to get paid?

The NBA is a billion dollar business and known as one of the largest and most prestigious organization within American sports today. It is also home to one of the most controversial rules in all of sports, which is known as "the one and done rule." The one and done rule restricts high school basketball players from entering the NBA draft out of high school and going to straight to the NBA. According to Article X, Section 1 of the NBA's 2005 collective bargaining agreement (CBA), the policy for player eligibility states:

Although some think the decision to go to the National Basketball Association should be solely in the hands of the players and although current efforts ensure that basketball players are in college for at least one year, the one-and-done rule needs to be revised because it destabilizes the college basketball system, leaves players without a backup plan, and causes players to lack the wisdom to make wise financial and life decisions.

First off, players considering going to the NBA will have their draft stock grow by graduating college before going to the Pros. But in some disappointing examples, teams take gambles with unknown teenagers and most times they do not pan out. A perfect example would be high school phenom Leon Smith, he grew up homeless bouncing around from orphanage to orphanage, when an NBA paycheck was placed in front of him he could not resist. The Dallas Mavericks were not aware of Smith’s tortured past when selecting him in the first round; playing only a handful amount of games in the NBA his career did not work out (Coomes). Who knows how his career would have played out if he went to college before the pros. Mark Tracy would agree with that story in his 2016 article where he declares, “It’s no secret that the NBA would prefer most players to stay in college for longer.” That statement can be translated to the equation: longer one stays in college, higher the draft pick. Many factors lead into scouts wanting players to compete in college for longer, one example from Kiki Vandeweghe, Basketball operations VP for NBA, explains familiarity, “The longer you stay in school and play, the more information we would have about you… the more familiar we would be with your game, the better predictor you can have for success.”

Players can’t wait for to go to the league and have multi-million dollar deal, but graduating from college is not even in their minds. Player rush and get their freshman year of on playing sports in college over with. The reason why they rush to get it over with is because they want to get paid fast instead of developing their skill to play at high level so that they can play at the next level. Fact is only two percent of college athletes in the country will make it to the pros(0).

Before 2006, NBA players did not have to go to college to be drafted into NBA. Notable players such as Lebron James, Kevin Garnett, Dwight Howard, and Kobe Bryant were drafted directly out of high school. Their careers have been nothing short of outstanding, so many people have questioned why the NBA increased the age limit in the first place. In 2005, the NBA decided that every player entering the draft must be at least one year removed from high school. Most players elect to spend that year, and only that year, playing at the collegiate level, creating what is known as the “one-and-done”. This is because most players decide that they do not want to risk injury playing another year or two in college, and would rather go into the NBA to receive the paycheck that entering the league promises. Since most players only spend one year in college, they come to the NBA still pretty raw in terms of skill. As a result, they play very few minutes, preventing them from developing their talent. In response to this problem, the NBA is thinking about increasing the minimum age limit to twenty. This would force players to stay in college for another year. NBA National Columnist Howard Beck wrote an article, “New Commissioner Adam Silver Argues Minimum Age of 20 Better for NBA, NCAA Games”, reporting on the possible rule change. The NBA should increase the minimum age to twenty because it allows players to develop and it also increases the quality of college basketball.

You might wonder, what is the “one-and-done” rule exactly? “One-and-done” is when a player enters college and plays only one year and has a choice to either leave college for the NBA or stay for multiple years. NCAA and NBA implemented this rule because they believe that the players are too young and immature for the NBA. Before 2006, players were able to enter the NBA draft straight from high school. Prospects were not panning out and seemed like they needed a year or two develop their game. In other words, players were not meeting expectations. The NCAA wants to increase the amount of years to either two or three years that a player has to stay in college before they can consider entering the draft.

Nearly everybody goes to school feeling like they can get drafted and go to the class. As they should, yet when you're really playing in school you'll know whether you're sufficient or not. You may not concede but rather you'll know where it counts inside. There are two or three folks in the group today that may go to the draft toward the finish of the season. Those are the folks that walk it like they talk it. Give

Basketball players entering the draft out of high school have been on the minds of NBA Commissioner David Stern and basketball fans across the world for the past few years. For several years, Stern has

If the athletes deem themselves as being good enough and do not want to play in the collegiate schools, they should instead jump to a professional league. “Professional leagues such as the National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, National Football League and Major League Baseball often have some type of an age restriction for the athletes that want to work for the league” (Smith, 2011). These restrictions in most instances do not

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is like the NFL, but different in ways. The NBA draft only has two round and thirty picks. That means each team gets two picks. An athlete must play one year of college basketball before entering the NBA draft. Since this rule has been enforced; the one and done players has been a problem. One and done means, A great basketball player will only stay one year with their college team; Then he will enter the draft the next year. This is leaving NBA player with only one year of college education. Hickman stated twenty-one percent of the NBA has a full College education.