One-And-Done Rule Might Be Changing

[57stratdawg]

A plan is expected to include the NBA starting relationships with elite teenagers while they are in high school, providing skills to help them develop both on and off the court. It would ultimately open an alternate path to the NBA besides playing in college and a way 18-year-olds could earn a meaningful salary either from NBA teams or as part of an enhanced option in the developmental G League, sources said.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...et-involved-high-school-level-once-again-espn

 

[T-TownDawgg]

Well, this will be good for college basketball**
NCAA basketball is becoming the "come here and get a degree, because you're not talented enough to play pro" league.

 

[paindonthurt_]

Might end up being a good thing. Might actually start playing “basketball” again.

 

[goodknight]

Fixes nothing imo. Kid thinks he’s good enough takes money and winds up not being good enough. Goodbye pay your way to school your basketball days are over. Think this will do more harm than good. If this is it let them go straight to the D league

 

[Go Budaw]

Fixes nothing imo. Kid thinks he’s good enough takes money and winds up not being good enough. Goodbye pay your way to school your basketball days are over. Think this will do more harm than good. If this is it let them go straight to the D league

Only way it works is if a kid can get drafted, get some of these “services” from the league or team that drafts him, but still have the opportunity to not sign a contract and go to college before he plays professionally in the D-league. This would make it basically the same as baseball is now, where you can get drafted and still go to school. The NCAA would of course have to get involved and bend a little bit on what services or compensation are acceptable or not, but overall it could work. The chronic problem is that neither the NBA nor the NCAA cares about anything other than their own self interests, so that is why the above scenario will never happen.

 

[maroonmania]

Well, this will be good for college basketball**
NCAA basketball is becoming the "come here and get a degree, because you're not talented enough to play pro" league.

I'm good with that. Even if the quality suffers a little I would rather watch guys that are legitimate college students. Heck, that is basically what college baseball is now and I enjoy that sport just fine.

 

[Philly Dawg]

They need to let high school athletes that want to and have the opportunity to be pros be pros and let high school athletes that want to go go college go to college.

 

[Apoplectic_Objurgator]

They need to let high school athletes that want to and have the opportunity to be pros be pros and let high school athletes that want to go go college go to college.

This is the answer. Take all the wannabees and their runners and slimy agents and slimy AAU coaches and go straight to h....the NBA. Let them start signing as jr high then after about 10 or so years when the nba starts feeling the political heat for ruining a generation of kids maybe they get serious about it. Let student athlete compete in college and 17 the NBA and the slime that associated with it.

 

[kired]

Fixes nothing imo. Kid thinks he’s good enough takes money and winds up not being good enough. Goodbye pay your way to school your basketball days are over. Think this will do more harm than good. If this is it let them go straight to the D league

I'd argue forcing kids into college who don't want to be there isn't doing much good either. When they find out they aren't good enough in college, they blame it on the coach or their team and transfer somewhere else. 4 years later they've been enrolled in 2 or 3 different schools and aren't halfway to a degree. And they've taken up scholarships from kids who legitimately wanted to spend 4 years playing college ball while actually getting an education.

 

[goodknight]

They can go overseas now and the NBA D league could allow them now if they wanted. But if you play you lost your college eligibility. NCAA should not budge on this

 

[esplanade91]

They can go overseas now and the NBA D league could allow them now if they wanted. But if you play you lost your college eligibility. NCAA should not budge on this

Kids can already sign immediately into the G-League. Several have, some even eventually going in the 1st round. The reason it isn't more prevalent is they receive a salary of like ~$30k (although, 100% of travel costs and food is covered and they receive a per diem when on the road), which is far less than almost any D1 athlete receives on the side. Far less than if they went to China.

If I was a blue chip or my kid was a blue chip and he valued my opinion, I'd take the endorsement money from Adidas, Nike, Under Armour, Li-Ning, or Anta and do the $30k salary, receive the 2nd best coaching (from past and future NBA coaches) in the world, compete in the 2nd best league in the world, and aim for that lottery. The reason I think it hasn't caught on yet is China and a few other teams in Europe you see take a lot of US kids reserve 1-2 of their foreign player roster spots for 18 year old Americans, and they're more than comfortable spending 7-figures on 1-year contracts. Hard to objectively look at a 7-figure salary and a $30k salary and say "I WANT TO IMPROVE AS A BASKETBALL PLAYER SO I CAN HELP AN NBA TEAM WHEN I'M 20!!!!"

 

[goodknight]

Read a stupid article today with ideas from an NBA. His idea let kids sign with an agent take money and if I not drafted NCAA should allow them to play college ball. How many HS kids do you think would take the money then play college. All that does is legalize payments that are evidently under the table today and is an easy out for the nba to have no skin in the game. Because we all know the agents have the best interest if the kids in mind.

 

[johnson86-1]

Fixes nothing imo. Kid thinks he’s good enough takes money and winds up not being good enough. Goodbye pay your way to school your basketball days are over. Think this will do more harm than good. If this is it let them go straight to the D league

That fixes a lot. You have fewer players spending a semester and a half on campus, which means teams have a little more time to develop some chemistry and/or learn how to run an offense.

 

[aTotal360]

I have no problem with letting an undrafted kid go back to school, but the agent issue makes this problem tough.

 

[mstateglfr]

HS grads can already go into the Gleague.
The NBA needs to just set up the Gleague as even more of a proving ground and experience gainer than it is right now.
Signing players to development contracts would help.

Sorta like euro soccer or euro basketball. Having a feeder/development arm of each team to sign young players would improve skill abd understanding of the game because players would be in a structured team environment instead of bouncing around AAU games and teams.

Best part- players could retain amateur status if they arent paid, just like euro pro development programs where so many euro college players come from.