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RE: Will NBA do away with one and done
(10-18-2017 03:09 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  
(10-18-2017 01:00 PM)Trapper John Wrote:  
(10-17-2017 09:21 AM)Tygrys Wrote:  
(10-17-2017 08:04 AM)Latilleon Wrote:  
(10-17-2017 12:14 AM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  You must protect these kids from themselves. Every year you have around 100s high school kids who just know they are the next LeBron and will go straight to the pros and have a long career. The overwhelming majority of those kids will never see a minute of NBA time.

But too many do not plan for this and over look their studies and miss out on opportunities to prepare themselves for the real world. Leading too many to gang involvement, drug use and crime. They end up right back where they came from with only their memories of their glory days in high school.

Got to make so these kids will at least have a chance to prepare themselves for life after basketball so they can build a good life for themselves in the future.

Go with the baseball method. Allow them to go to minor leagues out of high school but if they go to college they are not eligible for draft until after Jr year.

We cannot keep dumping unskilled kids unprepared for life back onto the streets and expect them to make it in society.

Can we protect the race car drivers from themselves? They could be killed!

As far as the baseball rule, that’s ridiculous as well. You can play for a junior college and not adhere to the rule. If you are born outside of the US/Canada, you can sign before you are 18!

Baseball and basketball are apples and oranges.

When high schoolers could go straight to the league, NCAA basketball was competitive and it put the focus back on the student athlete versus pros who basically were waiting to drop out the moment the college season was over.

I see no reason a method similar to baseball would not work. You give the kids the options.

A.) Enter the draft out of high school
B.) Pick some other venue to go play in - G League, JUCO, oversees
C.) Go to college but you are not eligible to be drafted for 2 or 3 years.

The vast majority of players on not going to choose JUCO, G league or oversees because if they are not good enough to be a first round pick out of high school then they likely are not going to be after just one year, so two or three in college works for them.

I would take option A a step further. If a player is not drafted, then the player could then choose option B or C. That would cut out the Boom or Bust scenario that declaring for the draft once held for high-schoolers. Under such a system, a player could be draft eligible, not get drafted, and then commit to a college for a 2/3 year period.

I would also like to see the draft expanded so that NBA teams could draft to fill their G-League teams with more two-way contract guys. This would create a better minor league system and keep more of the fringe talent in the NBA system instead of overseas.

If it were only that simple. There's the declaring for the draft issue, the agent/attorney issue (needed to be promoted & sign) & player evaluations - all of which can render a player ineligible under NCAA rules. But I do agree.............

Too much focus is being paid to the 0.08% who make it to the NBA and the 99.92% are just tossed back onto the streets.

Hard for a kid growing up seeing these large contracts to not be taken in by the dream of wealth. But only a small small small number of them will ever see that dream fulfilled. They need guidance to keep their focus on other options that are most likely going to be their path in life. You would not allow a kid to eat ice cream and cake for breakfast lunch and dinner. You will try to give him guidance as to how to eat in a healthier way. Likewise you need to temper this dream which is not going to reachable for the vast majority.
10-18-2017 06:58 PM
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RE: Will NBA do away with one and done
(10-18-2017 06:58 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  Hard for a kid growing up seeing these large contracts to not be taken in by the dream of wealth. But only a small small small number of them will ever see that dream fulfilled. They need guidance to keep their focus on other options that are most likely going to be their path in life. You would not allow a kid to eat ice cream and cake for breakfast lunch and dinner. You will try to give him guidance as to how to eat in a healthier way. Likewise you need to temper this dream which is not going to reachable for the vast majority.

Many of these kids have parents who see them as personal moneymaking machines to be pimped out to the highest paying bagmen they can find on the AAU circuit.

It's hard to get a pretty talented athlete raised in poverty to think straight if the kids' watchers are already caught up in the hoopla.
10-19-2017 07:14 AM
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