Stupid NBA....

[Venom65437]

For those who don't know, in the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, the NBA and the players union agreed to make players elligible for the draft one year after they graduate high school.

This means that players will have to attend a year of college, or I suppose they could just sit on their ass.

At any rate, while I am not aganist making players wait until they are older to play pro sports, after all, it makes the game much better, why even bother with this stupid crap?

One year is not going to start convincing players to stay in college and graduate, if even go to college at all, so why bother with such a stupid new policy? I think the NBA should just keep letting players come out at 18, or adopt the same policy as the NFL and force them to wait until 3 years after high school.

[philster]

I think it might be for the players' own good. Not against teens making money early or anything like that, but athletes too often forget the importance of education and college can help flesh out their decision whether they WANT to go pro or if they want to have a back-up plan just in case they're busts as pros.

[Venom65437]

Yes, but I don't think one year is going to matter. If I was good enough to go pro at 18, I'd MAYBE go to college for one year, then just leave anyway, why risk injury if I can make millions now?

[philster]

At the very least one year would give an athletes an opportunity to explore the possibilities. After all, not everybody gets to go to college so easily.

A lot of kids might not be so dumb in sports as a result.