Woj nails it (NBA draft age requirements)

Good point, frantic. Also see Shaun Livingston, if he'd had that knee explosion in college, he would've been permanently fucked. Instead, at least he and his family are taken care of.

On the flip side, see Chris Marcus, who would've been a guaranteed lottery pick if he'd come out early, instead listened to the stay in school crowd and came back for one more year of college ball, suffered a devastating injury, ended up getting nothing.

 

Thank you.
I said that exact same thing to someone over the weekend.
No one throws a fit with 15-year-old Amanda starts thinking about playing pro golf, tennis or getting into olympic gymnastics.

 

Kids can come right out of high school, sign with a D-League team and are then able to be drafted in the next season's draft.

Most guys in the D-League don't have contracts with the affiliated NBA teams.

 

There is. 18.

 

Getting into olympic gymnastics? Aren't they semi-retired at 15 nowdays?

 

No offense, dude, but the fact that you felt you needed to qualify Moses Malone winning a title by pointing out that he had a lot of talent around him just shows you are wildly out of your depth here.

Moses Malone won the MVP award the year they won the championship (and he was also Finals MVP). He won the MVP the year before with the Rockets, too. He was named MVP 3 times in his career. He was a 12 time all-star. He was on the list of the 50 greatest players. He's in the Hall of Fame.

I guess if he went to college for two years he might have had a decent career. Such a shame.

 

OK, PC, the list is at a legit one.

One.

I listed 29 top draft picks. Most of which were top-10 selections and none have lead their teams to a title.

Nine of the 29 are solid all stars.

If you are a GM in the NBA and you have a top 10 pick, 30 percent is not an acceptable success rate.

Oh, Moses was, what, 25 years ago?

 

Your logic is pretty skewed, but everyone else has already made points and you're just choosing to ignore them to fit your belief. I was tempted to continue the argument, but you're going to believe what you want. It's just frustrating to watch you ignore legitimate points others are making.

 

Tripp, I gave up a long time ago. Nevermind that the league is filled with busts who both jumped to the NBA too soon and guys like Raef LaFrentz who went to school four years, became All-Americans and are no better than those busts who left for the NBA too soon.

 

But your criteria is screwed up, because you are disqualifying Kobe because he had Shaq. That's bullshit. How many teams get to the championship based on one guy? The answer from the past few decades is one - the 1993-94 Rockets with Hakeem, in the period when Jordan was playing baseball. Everyone else has had a supporting cast.

Of course, we had a one-player team make it to the finals out of the East last year, and the one player never went to college.

 

That's so simplistic it's beyond reason.
That's like saying, "If smoking cigarettes causes cancer, why do people continue to do it?"

 

I understand all the arguments against an early-age requirement made on this thread. I can't really dispute them.

However, I think the early entries are killing college basketball. As a college basketball lover, I think that's sad.