Not trying to critique your opinion but can you explain why this would make the NBA a joke? I just fail to see that connection.
Diallo staying in draft per ESPN (not true - prankster hijacked Goodman's account apparently)
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Not trying to critique your opinion but can you explain why this would make the NBA a joke? I just fail to see that connection.
Translation: "The NBA sometimes has a negative effect on my fan experience so I'm pissy... even though the fact that the NBA exists is the main reason many top recruits pick UK and Cal."
The CBA is what allows Diallo to enter at his current age, despite not playing in college. The NCAA created the rule to allow players to enter the draft and then come back if they did not sign an agent and withdraw by a certain date. So technically the NCAA could prevent this by reverting back to the old way and undoing the rule change they just made, but they almost certainly will not any time soon. FWIW I think it is a great rule change that took too long to get implemented since it is a win-win for the players and the NBA and potentially college programs as well.
I had a tooth pulled and had a implant put in, am I still a toothless idiot?
The NBA is a professional league where Men should be playing and be ready to step into the league from almost day 1 and contribute to some degree. Now they draft 19 year old kids for whom most fall into a category that their game is still vastly developing and they are no where near ready to compete in what should be a mans league. The dreaded word potential keeps them all drafting anyone who looks like they could be the next stud!!!! I actually despise the NBA for their tactics and turning the college basketball landscape into the farce it is now with rotating rosters every year and that happens more so than just KY, just not on as large as a scale.
Add player compensation but also make each student athlete sign a contract with some teeth.
Hopefully the threat of that would force the nba to do something more equitable towards college basketball. Two years or baseball rule, either would be a huge improvement.
I'm a fan of the NBA but if I wasn't then I can see the perspective of a Kentucky fan or CBB fan frustrated by it. The one and done rule is actually in place because of your point... drafting kids out of high school was far too risky because you were relying so much on potential and did not have much data and scouting to go on when drafting. Forcing them to spend at least a year in college (or overseas, or wherever) gives them an extra year to be scouted and log stats if they do end up playing somewhere (as 99.99% of prospects do, 99% in college). Also while there is a difference between a 22 year old and a 19 year old, it isn't as big as you are making it out to be. It isn't like dudes who stayed 4 years in college are going to have a monster impact their rookie year either. The only time where you are going to get a "Man" who isn't drafted mainly off of potential is if a team takes a mid-late 20s foreign player who has had a dominant career in another league, typically the euro league. I'm not really sure what the NBA could do to please you, except maybe just stop existing haha.
"Lol... none and done... congrats Cal"
Don't blame Cal, huh?
Feel kinda stupid now, don't you?
Actually was a big fan of the NBA in the 80's and 90's and initially the novelty of drafting such a young player straight from high school was cool but then they went overboard. Now it's all about drafting freshmen (first 10 projected picks this year are freshmen). NBA could satisfy me by making it three years like the NFL does. Some of the playoff games I've watched this year was abysmal basketball play, nothing like the games use to be. JMO
