David Stern calls for a minimum age limit of 20 years old to be able to enter the NBA

this would be a stupide rule if a player thinks hes ready then he can enter the leauge at his own risk

 

This is just dumb for many reasons. What about the people like Darius Miles, Lenny Cooke, ect. who can't get into college. Not everyone is blessed with great smarts. Are people like them supposed to move to Europe so that they can play basketball untill they are 20. That is rediculous.

 

That's why Darius Miles is an actor in an "educational" movie.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting The Prophecy:</div><div class="quote_post">This is just dumb for many reasons. What about the people like Darius Miles, Lenny Cooke, ect. who can't get into college. Not everyone is blessed with great smarts. Are people like them supposed to move to Europe so that they can play basketball untill they are 20. That is rediculous.</div>

They go to Junior College like Qyntel Woods and Kendrick Brown. Believe me, you have to be real stupid to not get into a Division I school if you have enough talent to go pro'. The top High School players in the country are always eased into big time schools regaurdless of grades. Do you think Allen Iverson would be able to get into Georgetown if all the same rules applied to him as they did with the other students? Also, it's not nessicarily intelligence that takes you far in school. All you need is a work ethic and motivation to succeed. With the new twenty year old rule in place, more players will be motivated to do well in school. Let's say some kid is legally retarded, but has enough talent to go pro'. He'd wind up playing Junior College ball for a year. If he's truely talented, then he'll thrive and be noticed like Woods and Brown. Europe wouldn't be much of an option for the majority of the kids.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting The Prophecy:</div><div class="quote_post">This is just dumb for many reasons. What about the people like Darius Miles, Lenny Cooke, ect. who can't get into college.</div>

yea but stern also said they could go into the NBDL instead of the draft if they wanted to skip college

 

not a good rule... imagine having to wait two years until lebron could enter the league... this could lose younger fans.

 

I think ya'll need to think about this in another aspect as well...say some high school kid comes out and enters the Draft..he's drafted and out the League in a season cuz he can't hack it....now he done made a little money but chances are 90% of it is squandered and after it's gone he done for....but the cat that goes to college has an education to fall back on. I know some of these guys don't really get into the education part but it would truly help if the game fails on 'em.

 

Those are the people where you say, "So what happened to that one guy...?"

 

The interesting thing is that Stern is insinuating that if the league and the Players Association established a requirement for early entry through collective bargaining, antitrust laws don't apply...

I got that from here It's pretty much similar to the article the thread starter posted...

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Big Nasty:</div><div class="quote_post">I think ya'll need to think about this in another aspect as well...say some high school kid comes out and enters the Draft..he's drafted and out the League in a season cuz he can't hack it....now he done made a little money but chances are 90% of it is squandered and after it's gone he done for....but the cat that goes to college has an education to fall back on. I know some of these guys don't really get into the education part but it would truly help if the game fails on 'em.</div>

You took the words right out of my mouth. Guys, let's not think of Lebron or Melo at this moment coz they're making most of the fans believe that teenagers have what it takes to conquer the NBA. Imagine a 7 footer who's in high school. Agents will make the coaches believe that he has "potential". Agents will say "Forget about the fact that he doesn't have defense, he'll develop it in time". Why waste that potential? He could go to college and polish up that potential. What usually happens? He'll get drafted, rot on the bench because he didn't live up to his potential and he doesn't have anything to fall back on.

 

heh that sounds like a few guys I've seen around the NBA...

This is what should be done:

1)Have a program where you can enroll where NBA officials will look at you and see if you are a real superstar and you have what it takes(LBJ).

2)Those that can't go to a College can go to the NBDL...

3)Require at least 2 years in College.

so if you have what Lebron has..you will get in the NBA.

if you're not so smart and really struggle at school you can be in the NBDL for at least 1 year then Enroll into that program I mentioned above.

you want some education , and really learn more...you go to College for at least 2 years...

 

The thing about going to college to develop fundamentals...is that a lot of guys enroll and still manage to not learn them.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting ANiMuS:</div><div class="quote_post">The thing about going to college to develop fundamentals...is that a lot of guys enroll and still manage to not learn them.</div>

Well if they can't develop them in college, they would've done worse in the NBA.

 

If the league can't get a dunk contest right, what makes you think they can get this right?

:thumbsdow :thumbsdow

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Wave:</div><div class="quote_post">I love this. I'm a college junkie, and nothing hurts me more than HS players passing up the NCAA for the pro's.</div>
Wave's point I agree with, but Stern's was ridiculous. That's fine if he wants an age limit, but why encourage players to go to the NBDL? I thought that the whole point of the age limit (or at least part of it) was to encourage education.

How would players benefit from going to the NBDL first? In fact, it would hurt the league. Look at how much revenue and rating bron and melo have generated. By comparision the league is paying a small price for their services. I believe that going to the NBDL would actually make it harder to go to the NBA, players would take it less seriously and be judged on their mediocre NBDL performances.


<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">I also hate it when guys like Erazem Lorebek and Zach Randolph (M.S.U.) leave before they are twenty, because it hurts the college team that thought they'd have them for all four years. </div>
I don't agree with that point. Why turn down a promotion if you are capable of going to the next level? Maybe colleges should increase their "benefits" .

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Trail_Blazer76:</div><div class="quote_post">Maybe colleges should increase their "benefits" .</div>

Like what Shaq received in college?

 

Don't talented preps get like scholarships or somethin'? I'm not sure.