<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">With a possible lockout looming, could this be the NBA draft in which a high school player gets picked and still goes to college? It's still highly unlikely, but there is at least one player whose family likes the idea of his having a job waiting whenever he decides to leave college. Calvin Miles, father of Texas signee C.J. Miles (Skyline High, Dallas), is well aware of the protection the NBA and NCAA have given high school seniors. They are the only players in the draft who actually can be selected and still attend college, assuming they haven't signed with an agent. </div> Link(ESPN.com) Gerald Green is also one of those players, who hasn't signed an agent yet and if a lockout occurs can still go to OSU. Green is expected to sign an agent being that he has a high percentage chance of going third to the Blazers. Some other kids that declared for the draft and haven't signed an agent are Andrew Bynum, Brandon Rush, Amir Johnson, and Keith Brumbaugh, again these players have the chance of being drafted and then attending college. Weird.
You know, I've always said the NBA needed to adopt the NHL's draft system where players can retain their college eligibility after being drafted. I just never thought I'd see it happen, especially through a loophole. It would be a major help in the development process for these kids and their draft stocks as well. Kids like Andrew Bynum and Amir Johnson would all of a sudden become big time draft prospects. Teams would jump at the chance to draft a kid in the late first round or early second round who could go off to college and become a big propsect.
tricky I think is kinda tricky because while it is unfair to the players if there is a lockout and they are stuck and coulda gone to college it is also unfair to the teams that drafted them. How fair would it be to Portland or NO to spend their number 3/4 pick on GG and have him back out and go to college? I think players should be able to retain their eligability even if they sign with an agent if they go undrafted. It is wrong to leave a kid like Jackie Butler (now with the Knicks) who was told he was gonna be a second-round pick out in the cold like that and forcing him to go to the CBA when he should have been to go back to his agreement with Tennessee.
