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Steve Leibowich an attorney for the NBPA said this morning " The union will fight to lower the age minimum during the next round ofcollective bargaining becausr forcing players to attend college for one year is completely ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\nSteve Aschburner, NBA.com: Disagree for multiple reasons. One, it\u2019s not \u201ccompletely ridiculous;\u201d that\u2019s simplistic rhetoric for a topic worthy of legitimate debate. Two, the NBA is within its rights to set hiring policies. It doesn\u2019t have to provide all jobs for all high-school graduates who want to get paid to play basketball. Getting NBA scouts out of high school gyms is a worthy objective. Not starting multimillion-dollar , guaranteed contracts for players so raw their deal is nearly up by the time they\u2019re able to perform is a better one. I don\u2019t give a hoot about the impact on NCAA basketball, but the NBA is a better league when its players (with rare exceptions) have developed more and grown up a little.
\nFran Blinebury, NBA.com: Because it is arbitrary. Because we live in the United States of America, where the right to make a living should not be inhibited. And because one year of college does nothing to help the quality of either the NBA or college games.
\nScott Howard-Cooper, NBA.com: If the union wants to take a stand on bargaining away the jobs of current members, that\u2019s on them. I can\u2019t imagine it would be a very popular one among the rank-and-file players, primarily the many players whose goal will be to stay employed. Opening the door to more teenagers will increase the difficulty. On the specific topic at hand, though, my position for years has been to lower the age limit, while understanding it\u2019s not the majority opinion. I don\u2019t buy the part about \u201ccompletely ridiculous\u201d because there is a credible case to be made for requiring a prospect to be 19 years old in the calendar year of the Draft. I just think it doesn\u2019t stand up. Also, point of clarification, no players are being forced to attend college for one season. Go overseas and make money. Go to the NBA D-League and work on your game while making gas money on top of it. College is a choice, not a demand.
\nShaun Powell, NBA.com: The NBA isn\u2019t restricting anyone\u2019s ability to play basketball right out of high school. Anyone can go the Brandon Jennings route and play overseas and make money right away. The NBA is a big-boy league and, therefore, is only right to protect the quality of the game by imposing the current rule. One year of college isn\u2019t a lifetime prison sentence. It not only allows 18-year-olds to spend another year learning the game, but maturing as young men, which sometimes gets lost in the desire to cash in immediately.
\nJohn Schuhmann, NBA.com: The league and its teams should invest more in the NBA D-League, so that it\u2019s a full 30-team system with salaries that can compete with those in Europe or China, or at least make it easier for the country\u2019s best non-NBA talent to stay home. The D-League is where players can go out of high school, get paid, get scouted, and become NBA-eligible in one or two years. More players getting paid more money, without taking any out of the pockets of the players who are already in the league, sounds like a good deal for the union. And if the best 18-and 19-year-olds were in the D-League, the NBA and its teams would get a return on their investment via ticket and TV revenue.
\nSekou Smith, NBA.com: I\u2019m a believer in the freedom of choice for anyone old enough to take care of him or herself without the aid of a consenting adult. So I\u2019m fundamentally opposed to the idea of an age limit beyond a prospect\u2019s graduating senior class in high school (or the international equivalent). I agree with the union\u2019s premise that it\u2019s completely ridiculous to force anyone dreaming of playing in the NBA to do anything other than abide by the same rules we ask anyone else who reaches the age of adulthood to abide by. Where we part ways, however, is when we talk about the value placed on the college experience. I think any experience gained while away from the comforts of adolescence is extremely valuable. And I\u2019m thinking about more than just basketball. Some of these guys need to grow up a bit before being thrust into the fishbowl. Bottom line? Allow a prospect to enter the league after completing high school and then give them the opportunity to make their own, grown-up choices about what to do with their own lives.
\nIan Thomsen, NBA.com: The union is fighting on behalf of high school seniors who, for the most part, will contribute very little as rookies because of all they have yet to learn. The union is not thinking about the larger consequences for the NBA overall, because that is not the union\u2019s job. My opinion is that the NBA would benefit from a minimum age of 20 years, which would make sense especially if the NBA D-League became a highly-competitive league that helped players to develop and mature while teaching them how to win for the sake of the team. That scenario would create a better rookie class in addition to more jobs for the union.
\nLang Whitaker, NBA.com\u2019s All Ball blog: It is completely ridiculous, in that it just seems so random and arbitrary. Why one year of college? And why is the NCAA so complicit in this \u2014 the players don\u2019t even have to really go to class to maintain eligibility for one year. At the same time, I get it from the player\u2019s point of view, in the sense that the later guys get into the NBA and get on the clock with their rookie contract, the older they are when they finally hitfree agency. This means they might only get one big free agency contract instead of two big deals, which could be a difference of tens of millions of dollars. So are the guys in the league today really OK with passing that money along to guys who are in high school today? Maybe so. But I\u2019d be surprised if they don\u2019t want some for themselves. Either way, it doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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