Should the NBA adopt the college baseball eligibility rule?

[hawkfan]

In baseball, a player from high school can go straight to the pros or if he goes to college then he is required to stay for 3 years.

Should the NBA adopt the same rule?

#RedWhiteAttack

[Joyner82reload]

Absolutely not. MLB players take a hell of a lot of time to develop, 5+ years in most cases. Virtually nobody goes from straight the high school->MLB, they go to farm systems which are FAR more adept at developing players than the NBA D league.

Also tbh the majority of basketball players come from far lower income families than domestic US baseball players. The vast majority of players that were nowhere near ready for the NBA would declare anyway out of high school due to financial situations that would turn them away from going to college for 3 years. You would end up with talents that would go pro straight out of high school and be drafted/never develop and end up in Europe. Whereas high school players that go to college with plans of being 1 and done that don't develop rapidly typically tend to stay in college for an extra few years as is.

[navy]

Forcing kids to go to college is dumb. That or they have to go overseas. Even dumber.

In reality the nba needs to improve it's developmental league if they dont want kids straight out of highschool.

[hawkfan]

Absolutely not. MLB players take a hell of a lot of time to develop, 5+ years in most cases. Virtually nobody goes from straight the high school->MLB, they go to farm systems which are FAR more adept at developing players than the NBA D league.

Also tbh the majority of basketball players come from far lower income families than domestic US baseball players. The vast majority of players that were nowhere near ready for the NBA would declare anyway out of high school due to financial situations that would turn them away from going to college for 3 years. You would end up with talents that would go pro straight out of high school and be drafted/never develop and end up in Europe. Whereas high school players that go to college with plans of being 1 and done that don't develop rapidly typically tend to stay in college for an extra few years as is.

If guys are not ready and declare themselves pros, then they can develop in the D-League.

But now, with guys only going one year, they really don't get that time to develop their skills through practice. And coaches are gun-shy about really teaching players.

[Joyner82reload]

If guys are not ready and declare themselves pros, then they can develop in the D-League.

But now, with guys only going one year, they really don't get that time to develop their skills through practice. And coaches are gun-shy about really teaching players.

The players get much better input from college teams/coaches about whether or not they're ready to declare for the NBA. High school coaches know jackshit about how ready a player is for the NBA, because they mostly play against scrub high school players. Most college coaches are sincere with their players about whether or not they're ready for the next level, they have coached/coached against far more NBA level players than any high school coach.

Most college coaches won't lie to a player if they're ready for the NBA. They'll tell them that they are and they should go make their money.

[Akrazotile]

If guys are not ready and declare themselves pros, then they can develop in the D-League.

But now, with guys only going one year, they really don't get that time to develop their skills through practice. And coaches are gun-shy about really teaching players.

Thing is tho an individual draft pick in basketball is much more crucial than in baseball.

It doesnt behoove teams to use important picks on guys that havent been evaluated against competition beyond high school level. The problem is if a bunch of teams abstain from picking high schoolers, and only a couple do, those teams will get all the Lebrons and KGs and it wont really matter that they get Kwames and Darius Miles' too. So to keep up, other teams draft high schoolers and then you just get too many busts.

So for the sake of the league, better to just raise the experience minimum and weed out some of the potential busts.

I dont know why kids on the internet care so much about this. It's not your business and it's not your career. Why so obsessed with it??