I'd like to see a rule similar to what MLB has...

 

Exactly what I want to see....that way if they want to go before college, so be it, but then you get them for awhile otherwise. I love the baseball rule.

I'd like to see a rule similar to what MLB has...

 

YES!!!

 

As long as the kids have the option to go pro out of high school, I think the NBA can do what they want. If they go to a rule similar to baseball, then the NBDL can become like a minor league system for teams and kids that go pro out of high school but don't make it. I love that suggestion GT.

 

Otherwise, leave the rule as is. Coaches don't have to recruit the "one and done" athlete. If there is a two year mandatory rule with no chance for high schoolers to go pro in the NBA, then I think Brandon Jennings will be the first of many kids to go to Europe to play.

Let them go straight out of HS. It's better than letting them play 1 year in colllege and then going pro.

Go back to the way it used to be.

Wasn't there recently a big deal about someone going to play in Europe straight out of HS? What are the chances that if the NBA extends to 2 years, more will take this route?

The one year rule makes no sense other than it boost college bball a little bit. If your gonna make them go at least make them go 2 so they can try to get a degree. One year just promotes dropping out like many non athletes already do. A lot of $$$ to be made in college though. That one year is like a stimulus to them.

Obviously the NBA wants the two year rule for evaluation purposes.

 

I thought Mark Gottfried had an interesting take on the situation...

 

 

But Alabama coach Mark Gottfried has a radical idea to take back control of the process from the NBA.

 

 

Gottfried proposed to the NCAA basketball issues committee this spring that the NCAA change its side of the early-entrant process. Gottfried's idea is to submit every Division I underclassman's name to the NBA draft, making everyone eligible to be selected.

 

 

In Gottfried's plan, players would lose their eligibility if they worked out for an NBA team. Gottfried and other college coaches figure that since NBA teams have spent countless dollars scouting college players, why should they need to work them out again on site?

 

 

Then, Gottfried said, everyone "would watch the draft and see where they were selected. If you don't like going No. 50 in the second round, then you would have 10 days after the draft to return to school."

 

 

Gottfried said the NBA wouldn't like his idea, but this would prevent bad decisions since a player wouldn't leave if he were picked too low or not at all.

 

Of course, if this were to occur, the NBA would have to decide if it retained rights on a player selected. There is also the question if the school can have control over submitting a player's name to the NBA on his behalf.

 

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I am all for the baseball situation. You can get drafted right out of high school and then decide if you want to go or not. If you decide to go on to college, then it should be 3 years before you can be drafted again.

I think it should be 4 years. If they sign scholarship papers and leave early, they should pay the university for the remaining years. They've made a committment and if they break it, they should be held responsible. The univeristy should be entitled to some "pay-back".

I think it should be 4 years. If they sign scholarship papers and leave early, they should pay the university for the remaining years. They've made a committment and if they break it, they should be held responsible. The univeristy should be entitled to some "pay-back".

Where do you think basketball and football scholarship money comes from at most BCS schools???

I am all for the baseball situation. You can get drafted right out of high school and then decide if you want to go or not. If you decide to go on to college, then it should be 3 years before you can be drafted again.

 

Amen. Even though I love to follow college basketball, I root for the smaller schools these days (ie, Davidson) because they have real college basketball student athletes.

IMO - there should be no minimum age rule. It should be up to the GM's to do their job and figure out if kids are mature enough yet for the NBA.

Another alternative I think they should offer is a stronger minor league system. They should take a lesson from baseball and provide a minor league option and an option to attend college.

The D League hasn't exactly been a place for young players to go to develop, but more of a veterans trying to hang on/get back into the league.

If a kid is ready talent wise and maturity wise, then I don't think the NBA should have a rule holding them back.

 

The NBA drafts on potential... That was the problem with no age rule... GM's knew they weren't ready yet, but were banking on them being ready in a few years...