Adam Silver, wanting too ratify maybe the one and done!?
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Pretty sure the NBA and NBPA ratified the one and done rule several years ago.
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It's a tough issue in my mind.
I doubt NBA teams want to pay scouts to visit a hundred high schools and the kids being approached by agents while in HS.
I'm sure the collegiate coaches don't want to recruit and possibly miss on kids that may or may not play cbb.
On the other hand, by making kids go two years to college (and still not get a degree) it could easily push many overseas.. hurting the overall mktg/branding of the collegiate-to-pros bump.
One and done, even with its warts, is probably better than the alternatives.
I doubt NBA teams want to pay scouts to visit a hundred high schools and the kids being approached by agents while in HS.
I'm sure the collegiate coaches don't want to recruit and possibly miss on kids that may or may not play cbb.
On the other hand, by making kids go two years to college (and still not get a degree) it could easily push many overseas.. hurting the overall mktg/branding of the collegiate-to-pros bump.
One and done, even with its warts, is probably better than the alternatives.
Allow me to assist you, young fella.
http://www.slamonline.com/nba/adam-silver-rethinking-nba-one-done-rule/#1Gl0sJIcjopi3fUy.97
"Adam Silver, wanting too ratify maybe the one and done!? Back to HS to NBA? Or 2 and done?"
That's a little hard to decipher. The quote basically says, we (the league) want to move the age limit from 19 to 20, and the union wants to move from 19 to 18, we want to work with our union to resolve this outside of the time period when we're negotiating the next contract when everyone is in negotiating mode and no one gives on anything. So you read that and it sounds like he's maybe offering an olive branch, maybe the league is considering giving on this issue, meaning the union gets its way and the age limit goes back to 18.
He's bemoaning the one and done as useless, kids don't finish the freshman year anyway, so how much are they really getting out of that year, and is it worth fighting for?
My guess is we never get to 2 and done, we'll go back to straight from high school to the NBA...
I'll take gibberish for 200 Alex.
Player's Union is one pushing for players to go straight from high school to pros. Silver is saying he is reconsidering the league's position.
Straight to high school was going to be the change if one was made. He sighted the fact that scouts go to all of the high school camps anyway and draft positions don't really change that much over one year of college. As far as taking a year in college as a scouting tool to evaluate talent he said that it was pretty worthless so why not just get rid of the one year.
I'm not sure if it will make college basketball better or worse, but all of the schools will have to deal with it so it is still a level playing field. The talent level will take a huge hit though, so I would lean toward it being an inferior product, but guys may try a lot harder to raise their draft stock. Additionally, there are only a finite amount that are going to be drafted each year anyway. It's not like all of the top fifty guys are going to get an offer since half of the prospects are foreign players.
I'm sure Cal will figure it out either way.
I'm not sure if it will make college basketball better or worse, but all of the schools will have to deal with it so it is still a level playing field. The talent level will take a huge hit though, so I would lean toward it being an inferior product, but guys may try a lot harder to raise their draft stock. Additionally, there are only a finite amount that are going to be drafted each year anyway. It's not like all of the top fifty guys are going to get an offer since half of the prospects are foreign players.
I'm sure Cal will figure it out either way.
I wouldn't mind going back to straight-from-high-school except for one thing. Teams are going to "complete" their recruiting class, take commitments and sign kids, and then watch them go pro in May after there's nobody left to fill their spot. Situations like Sebastian Telfair burning Louisville are going to be a problem again, and with Cal recruiting top talent, we're going to be regularly getting burned.
Ideas:
NBA would probably not do this, but to prevent NCAA teams from getting burned, signing a LOI disqualifies you from the draft.
HS Seniors eligible for the draft by invite only. Not sure what system you set up, but would prevent a flood of kids trying to get drafted. They might like a flood of kids, though, if they're trying to grow the d-league.
NBA would probably not do this, but to prevent NCAA teams from getting burned, signing a LOI disqualifies you from the draft.
HS Seniors eligible for the draft by invite only. Not sure what system you set up, but would prevent a flood of kids trying to get drafted. They might like a flood of kids, though, if they're trying to grow the d-league.
Like the thought, but it doesn't solve the problem. Kids won't sign...but will just wait until NBA Draft deadline day to decide between jumping or choosing a school.
This isn't a bad thing. I think a compromise would entail straight out of HS or 2 years in college. Truth is back in the day when it was straight out of HS. Not near as many made the jump as people think. I think more would now but outside the top 10 hardly any.
Because back in the day, no D league...now their is...potential out of HS can hone their skills in the D league, like baseball
For the millionth time: the ncaa holds ALL the cards. All they have to do is allow a kid to retain eligibility until he signs a contract with a team..not an agent. If he doesn't get the draft slot he wants; if he doesn't get the contract he wants, he can come back and play for his college team.
That's exactly the thing to do IF the ncaa is really interested in the welfare of the kids.
It wouldn't take a month for the nba to see the nightmares this would cause. They'd quickly come up with a plan that the ncaa could endorse.
That's exactly the thing to do IF the ncaa is really interested in the welfare of the kids.
It wouldn't take a month for the nba to see the nightmares this would cause. They'd quickly come up with a plan that the ncaa could endorse.
What happened here was Nullify and Eradicate tried to make a baby.
But it came out deformed. Life sucks.
But it came out deformed. Life sucks.
I don't care what the rule change is. They can go back to the old way or change it to 20-21 or whatever. I'm just tired of the one and done. UK did pretty good before the 1 and done and I'm confident Cal will do fine if not better for UK after the rule change.
TV Ratings are plummeting. I haven't watched a game on purpose in a decade. They'll always have a core of fanboys and a demographic that don't appreciate fundamental basketball, that just drool over dunks and how high players jump, how they act with their constant mean mugging and beating their chest, whining to refs after every play, basically acting like tantrum throwing juveniles. But basketball purists are tuning out, at some point it becomes like watching professional wrestling for people as they mature ( if they ever start maturing and live in the real world).
lol tv ratings aren't plummeting you nut. just because you don't watch games (you do) doesn't mean everybody also doesn't watch games (they do)
Wrong. TV ratings were down 14% this regular season. Google it. And no, wrong again, haven't watched faux basketball in a decade.
I did google it, and all that I see is that the tournament had higher ratings than last year so maybe you can point me in the right direction instead of "google it"
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