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NBA age limit
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Keanu_Reaver
Djibouti1432 Posts
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tiffany
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choujji
Japan203 Posts
even if u force them to goto university for 1-2 years, its not like they're in it for the education | ||
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jjun212
Canada2208 Posts
keeps the NCAA alive with the players forced to stay there and also, allows the countries best atheletes to also get at least an under-grad in university | ||
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BigBalls
United States5354 Posts
I dont really see a point in making players wait 2 years, its dumb. Just naming the best players in the NBA, the about half did not go to college: lebron, kobe, garnett, tmac. the only ones who did are duncan, shaq, iverson and wade. Like choujii said, if people are forced to go to college they arent going there for education, it wont change who they are or do anything besides make the league LESS money. | ||
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Keanu_Reaver
Djibouti1432 Posts
he basically said this: at 18, a person is considered an adult, to be able to make adult choices. a person can then choose to go into the army, to college, or to play basketball. there is nothing wrong with letting players play out of high school, 7 all stars this year were players that went from high school to the nba, if its not broke it shouldn't be fixed. most any other sport with the exception of football doesn't even have an age limit, that 14 year olds will play soccer and young girls will figure skate professionally. he also said that economically, with the more player driven nba, sales have been higher they've ever been. he then went on to say that he cant figure out why they want to up the limit. economically, there's no point because some of the biggest stars are straight out of high school, and sales have never been higher. protecting the hs basketball players is disingenuous because they've been successful and nba teams wont draft them unless they show huge potential. all in all, i found it really difficult to refute what he said | ||
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BigBalls
United States5354 Posts
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Keanu_Reaver
Djibouti1432 Posts
On April 12 2005 23:16 BigBalls wrote: Literate, well spoken people like lebron james and kobe bryant completely skipped college while retarded thugs like iverson went to college. I dont really see a point in making players wait 2 years, its dumb. Just naming the best players in the NBA, the about half did not go to college: lebron, kobe, garnett, tmac. the only ones who did are duncan, shaq, iverson and wade. Like choujii said, if people are forced to go to college they arent going there for education, it wont change who they are or do anything besides make the league LESS money. agreed about the college thing, which is something else oneal pointed too | ||
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tiffany
3664 Posts
i think a good arguement for going to college is the opportunity to play under real coaches, not some underpaid high school physical education teacher. but then again, a player could always skip straight to the nba and learn from even better coaches, but this would be at the expense of the team and owner that drafted him | ||
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choujji
Japan203 Posts
It might deter some high schoolers or it might not but atleast it ll save teams a lot of money for those development years that these players should have gotten in college | ||
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Casper...
Liberia4948 Posts
they're also going to be renegotiating the collective bargaining agreement (much slimmer, a smaller pie since jordan left and NBC dropped them) this summer and they're willing to make concessions if it were left to them (the union) they'd up the age limit, but it's not up to them since the next big high schooler from next year would take this to court and WIN BIG as the labor laws in the states are so fucking ABC and clear on this matter that it's ridiculous so ignore the talk. billy hunter is a putz. there are hundreds of marginal NBA players who are rapidly becoming obsolete. they need to deal with it, and we as consumers shouldn't tolerate an artificially inferior product being forced upon us. besides, the NBA set up the NBDL specifically to deal with the unprepared highschool straight to NBA flunkeys and has done a pretty good job of it. hence, stern's indifference is more to placate the union into letting them believe that it could actually happen before the weight of public opinion does his work for him forcing billy hunter to stop making retarded statements to the media about "maturity" or some other bullshit. | ||
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hasuwar
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Servolisk
United States5241 Posts
I hate people talking about it being good because of the benefit to the college game. I don't know why people want to do so much for college when they basically exploit the atheletes. Stern is doing this (if he does go through with it) for the sake of the NBDL. There are zero legitimate reasons for this. | ||
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-DaJ-
Switzerland539 Posts
On April 12 2005 23:16 BigBalls wrote: I dont really see a point in making players wait 2 years, its dumb. Just naming the best players in the NBA, the about half did not go to college: lebron, kobe, garnett, tmac. the only ones who did are duncan, shaq, iverson and wade. ok now lets see are the ones with college those who win champions ships or the ones without? hmm.... lebron, kobe, garnett, tmac might be "the best"...but the only thing in the finals that really counts is the TEAM not one player. and thats what ur "best" players have to learn ... | ||
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Servolisk
United States5241 Posts
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-DaJ-
Switzerland539 Posts
even jordan had pippen, kukoc, harper, rodman and so on.it wasnt only MJ it was the TEAM. He was the best allrounder and team leader, no doubt. but he had always the team in his back. come on it cant be that hard to understand.... | ||
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Servolisk
United States5241 Posts
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Comeondieyoung
Germany23 Posts
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-DaJ-
Switzerland539 Posts
thats exactly my point. but i didnt tell u  rofl kk, sorry. here it goes: in my opinion in the college u learn how to play in a team. u have to go through college to be mature enough to understand the game. the hischool players might be athlete enough for the nba but their mind is not ready... | ||
Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
That's how I reason --; And I don't even know shit about this, just that what you say isn't logical ;o! No one is forcing anyone to recruit them! | ||
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