SportingNews: Plan circulating to extend NBA entry to 3 years out of HS

die hard gopher said:

Well no player ever opts out to play Euro ball or d-league ball before their eligibility expires even if they do get paid. Its not really the free education that compels them i don't believe. Its the fame that they get with 15,000 fans at every game and the millions more watching you on nationally televised games when Euro ball isn't nearly as popular as college basketball. There are more scouts that watch you're college games as well and also the facilities, trainers and coaches usually better as well at least for blue blood programs. Playing in a foreign country miles and mile away from home where nobody speaks you're language can be scary as well i'm sure for somebody that is so young.

Also the Arena football league, Canadian football league and many more leagues actually do exist as an option to get the NFL.

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Arena and Canadian football? Seriously?

Gopherguy0723 said:

It is very smart for the NBA to do this. It grows the D-League, which may be necessary with massive changes that the NCAA will be forced to implement. Moreover, NBA evaluators will have more time to scout players, and it keeps more jobs for veteran players. So veterans will make more money and last longer in the league, and the game will be a better product because the younger players will be more polished.

This will make the college game a better product, although there will be less parity. We will be much less likely to see a a 7 seed v. 8 seed in the championship again. The NCAA will also look better because they give more empty speeches about how the game has been restored for the betterment of the virtuous "student athlete."

The people who lose are people who, by and large, are going to get rich anyway. I'd like to see them get paid, but truthfully, they're not ready for the big bucks. Plenty of players had their careers ruined the day they signed their deal at 18-years old, before they even stepped foot on the court.

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What a hypocrite. You wail and gnash your teeth constantly on the football board about the "illegal" practices of the NCAA and how they refuse to pay players what they "deserve", and now you're slapping the NCAA on the back for even considering prolonging the amateur status of players. Hypocrisy, thy name is 0723.

scher215 said:

From a Gary Parish column-

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...t-is-right-and-wrong-about-college-basketball

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"There's been a lot of players who've come out of high school," Bryant said. "If you do the numbers and you look at the count, you'll probably see players who came out of high school ... were much more successful on average than players who went to college."

That was Bryant's larger point.

And it's 100 percent true, by the way.

For those unfamiliar with the numbers, 39 high school players were selected in the first or second round between 1995 and 2005. Here's a breakdown of how they did:

Ten became NBA All-Stars.
Three became NBA Most Valuable Players.
Thirty-three spent at least five years in the NBA.
That means only six out of 39 spent fewer than five years in the NBA, which means you were essentially twice as likely to get an All-Star as you were a flameout if you selected a high school prospect from 1995 until it was no longer allowed before the 2006 NBA Draft. Roughly 85 percent of the time, at the very least, you got a rotation player. So, like Bryant said, on average the prospects who skipped college and were selected have been much more successful in the NBA than the prospects who went to college before being selected.

While that's true it's also a little deceiving. Over the last 20 years 35% of all players who either came out of High School or were 1 and done weren't drafted period. They got bad advice. So the actual flameout rate is higher, but that's not the main problem with that stat. The reason that NBA wants more "college" time is twofold isn't it? First they don't want to foot the bill for the development and promotion of their players as long as the NCAA does it for free. The other is that they want to look at players against better competition than they had in High School. That's were the stat is really bad.

How many of those players listed ended-up being good for the team that drafted them? Teams want to limit their mistakes and they think, rightly or wrongly, that seeing the kid play against better competition will limit those mistakes. They don't want to "develop" that High School kid into an NBA player and watch him head elsewhere. That was a major part of the last two contract negotiations.

Maybe a better solution is a baseball-like route. Kid can get drafted and go get his money playing in the NBA or in an NBA-fundedminor league. Or he can go to college and if he can stay eligible, go to the team that drafted him after 2 years, or 3 years if he wanted to be drafted all over again.

Wonder what the NBA Players Association will get in return for any change in the rules.