NBA wants to reduce the minimum draft age to 18.
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The trick is that they seem to have everyone convinced that inexperienced raw players are worth millions of dollars--and often more than the experienced guys who already know what they are doing. Sure, there's a LeBron that comes along every now and then. But most of those guys are simply not ready. And they make so much money that they are tough to coach. Most 18 year olds are not mature enough to handle all that comes with being a star. One reason the NBA is not worth watching anymore is that the talent is high but the quality of play is not. Too young and uncoached in the fundamentals. In any other profession, you apprentice or work as an intern or are a grad student until you learn what you are doing. Even in baseball, there's some of that.
Maybe they should have a league for young players to try their hand.....
Maybe they should have a league for young players to try their hand.....
Bad. The influence of "handlers" will increase with kids being sold on going pro. Most will not make in the NBA immediately, if never. Many might make in the developmental league. Was there any mention that they would have complete their HS diploma or other prerequisites other than age? I stopped watching the NBA because the game is boring and too focused on star players rather than teams. Younger players are weak on fundamentals. College game (high major programs) are heading that way. Pretty much only watch BBall during the NCAA tournaments. Grew up watching BBall in 60s & 70s with all the great team play (pro & college). Those days are over and my interest has waned.Goodor bad
Not sure why the owners would want younger, less talented players coming in, especially after a large number of them flamed out so spectacularly just before they changed the rule, or why the union wants more money going to younger and at the time non-union players, but whatever.
They do, it's called the D league. Agree on everything else, NBA is straight garbage now. Form a dream team in a desirable city or bust. However the two greatest players of the last 15 years went straight to pros in Kobe and Lebron. They are absolute outliers though.
Why are there restrictions? So the colleges can make money off these kids. CBB is the NBA minors just like CFB is the NFL. If these leagues were set up like MLB and the NHL with minor league systems for kids who don’t want to go to school it would be different.
College basketball has no say on the age rule this all on the nba these kids do not have to come to college if they do not want. They could go play in Euro leagues if they feel college is not for them. I think what needs to happen is NBA kind of does a showcase thing where these kids get a draft grade and before they make there determination of going to the NBA or set it up like MLB or NHL drafts where teams have your rights for so long but you can steal play college.
Good
Good for the 1/10th of 1% named Kobe or LeBron. Good for the scumbag agents that only care about their pocketbooks and use the media as their politically correct cheerleaders.
Bad for everyone else all the way around.
Two things need to happen. 1) the d-league or g-league or whatever has to establish itself as the farm system and kids will enter it out of HS; and 2) the NBA needs to grow up and stop the ridiculous practice of drafting 18-year olds based on a guess that they will be great when they are 22. The success rate has been extremely low
It’s good for college basketball fans with no interest in the NBA because the ridiculous one-and-done nonsense makes college basketball LESS interesting.
In other words whether it is good for the NBA or not is irrelevant for a college basketball fan; it is good for college basketball.
It is only fair to leave debate about the NBA implications to actual NBA fans.
In other words whether it is good for the NBA or not is irrelevant for a college basketball fan; it is good for college basketball.
It is only fair to leave debate about the NBA implications to actual NBA fans.
I might only watch a portion of the finals, but somebody is watching..............
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/071415/how-nba-makes-money.asp
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtba...2019-knicks-on-top-at-4-billion/#2c00d9b0e667
Business projections in ten years has the NBA on the heels of the NFL with it's higher revenue growth rate.
http://fortune.com/2018/05/26/nfl-vs-nba-americas-biggest-sport/
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I love basketball, but the NBA is unwatchable IMO. One of the reasons I watch the NFL is because I recognize a significant number of the players from CFB. I watched the Giants this year almost as much as the Eagles because of Barkley. I also think the quality of NBA play has declined as we’ve seen the rise of the superstars (Jordan started is phenomenon) trying to create highlight reels. I think many agree that they would be better off if they increased the min age rather than go in the opposite direction.
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I agree and disagree. Hard to disagree with what’s best for the young guys. But there’s a market and
if the teams are willing to pay millions and use their limited roster spots on them, hard to argue 18-yo adults should be prohibited by rule. Caveat emptor. I’d like to see more like Iverson’s Reebok contract where funds are set aside for when the ill-advised are washed up and broke.
They need a minor league, but they lean on the colleges.
If you want to draft a kid at age 18, and know he needs several years to get up to the NBA level, then pay him to go into a minor league team and play basketball professionally until he is ready to be called up.
Currently the kid has to go to college for a year, knowing full well that he will immediately join the NBA afterwards.
The one year in college makes no sense for anybody involved.
I don't know why the NBA is satisfied bringing these half-developed players directly into the league, either. Their product is awful and has been for at least 10 years. Back in the 1990s it was actually a nice league to watch.
It gets rid of the farce that has been one-and-done where you have NCAA players who have absolutely no interest in actual school goings on, don't want to go play in Europe, and have to kill a year so they are draft eligible so they enroll somewhere and go thru the motions of being a college student so they can then enter the draft as a 19 year old.
For the most part those who are going to take advantage of this at 18 were the same who were going to enter the draft at 19.
For the most part those who are going to take advantage of this at 18 were the same who were going to enter the draft at 19.
