High school phenom Thon Maker has been officially cleared by the NBA to enter the 2016 draft, according to ESPN's Chad Ford. Maker will become the first player to jump straight from high school to the NBA since 2005, when the league established the one-and-done rule. Maker's case is unique, so the NBA allowing him to enter the draft doesn't change the rules that establish that in order to be eligible, a player has to be at least 19 years old and one year removed from high school. Maker was born in February of 1997 and, according to his guardian, graduated high school in June of 2015 despite staying at Athlete Institute in Ontario, Canada for a fifth year of high school. It was a complex situation that opened itself to interpretation. Clearly the league has accepted Maker's qualifications and will allow him to enter the draft. This decision could provide a template for other players who don't want to play college basketball and hope instead to move from high school straight to the NBA. In fact this ruling could have an impact this very draft, as another fifth-year student, Jonathan Isaac, was considering entering his name. - See more at: http://www.sbnation.com/college-bas...20/thon-maker-to-jump-from-high-school-to-nba
