Let them not change the rule. The way to correct it the owners should tell there GM not draft anyone that has less than 2 years of college. The college kids will get it after the first draft. Yes a lot kids would get screw out of there college elgibilty but they will learn. The owners are the employers everyone else is the employee. Don't worry about what the union wants it up to owners set there team guidelines not the union. Yea you can apply it don't mean the owners have to hire. Just like every other job in the world.
I'm not a lawyer, but I have a gut feeling that the word you're describing is "collusion" ("an agreement between two or more parties, sometimes illegal and therefore secretive, to limit open competition by deceiving, misleading, or defrauding others of their legal rights, or to obtain an objective forbidden by law typically by defrauding or gaining an unfair market advantage" - wiki). Having owners negate a hard-won concession by the Union as part of the collectively-bargained Agreement through mutual decision seems to fit. Then again, one rogue and the whole thing comes down. How many owners do you get through before someone decides "F*** it, I'mma draft Ben Simmons no matter how old he is."
I completely disagree with the age limit. In fact, I think they should lower it to 16. You're talking about an industry where you're lucky to play past 30. Is it really so ridiculous to give these guys a little bit longer of a window where they can earn a living?
Most owners will still draft young one 1 year college. But than don't complain when that player is a bust. To me it on the owners shoulder not no one else. Of course the union will cry about it even though it is best for the league and the young player. You don't get a Simmons that quit on his college team mate like he did and I believe drop out college after the season. If dont want go to college do it some other way by going over seas or play in the d-league.
Working teens make minimum wage. What's the national rate, $7.50 or something. A teenage basketball star should have a choice of a college scholarship, or an NBA job at $7.50 per hour. That'll have the same effect as an age rule. And we'll solve the leave raker shortage.
If teens want to get into the NBA they should be required to play a couple years in the D league first...they don't pay much
Working 7.50 per hour to do something I love with my friends wouldn't be terrible. Even if it was supplemental income.... the people you work makes or breaks it anyway.
I agree with this. It's not a right but a privilege to play in the NBA (gaurenteed contracts ensure that). I also think that if guys don't get drafted they should be able to go back to college ball.
If you're old enough to vote, and die for your country, you should be old enough to drink champagne. (And play in the nba) I think the college rule is stupid.
I don't think there should be an age minimum at all. I think if a person chooses to play in College that they should stay two years though. Not because they even need it in every case. More because it is commitment returned that the schools showed you to begin with. Also in favor of paying the kids (not a lot necessarily but some at least). Side note a bit but what I would like changed even more is the draft after free agency though.
You could make everyone play 4 years in college and there are still going to be draft busts. Raising ages or adding requirements or accomplishments, no matter what you do there are still going to be players who under achieve. There are no guarantees in life or the NBA.
