NBA players with less than four years of experience in college assemble 52.1 % of the NBA. Also, NBA players have to be at least 19 years old to play professionally. 18 year olds can’t play in the NBA, but will be out of high school and looking for something to do with their advanced skills, but the NBA doesn’t allow kids out of high school to go pro . They make you wait one year until you can play professional basketball. High school players that can play at the professional level should be able to go straight to the NBA after high school.
Firstly, ten or more players that came straight out of high school became above average NBA players. Kobe Bryant is a fabulous example of this, Kobe Bryant didn’t attend college, but is the NBA’s third
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highest scorer of all time. Kobe also holds the second highest scored points in a game (81).Secondly, he has ranked in the NBA’s top 20 players to ever play the game of basketball. Furthermore, most players go one-and-done, so the college teams that they play for are losing their best players.
If the NBA allowed players to go straight out of high school the NCAA wouldn’t have to worry about this.Therefore, teams have to adapt to the players they have when their stars leave after one year. The one-and-done rule has ruined college tournaments. It gives “ok” players confidence that they could compete in the NBA because they don’t have any competition or experience playing against players with years of experience.
Lastly, in the eleven drafts from 1995 to 2006, the NBA selected 39 players to an All-NBA team ,or an All Star team. LeBron James, drafted in 2003, was a first round pick coming straight out of St. Vincent-St. Mary high school.Secondly, LeBron has won 3 NBA championships leading the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Miami Heat. He’s also played on 13 All-NBA teams. Another great example of this is Kevin Garnett. The NBA picked him 5th in the first round ,and in 2007 he went to the Celtics and won MVP and won the NBA championship.
Although, many people argue that if a high school player is a bust they wouldn’t have a degree, but the fact is you don’t have to go to college right out of high school. Many people go back later in their lives to go get their degree. In 2020 there is an estimated 9.6 million people older than 25 that will attend
college. Basketball stars should be able to go pro straight out of high school. If they can compete at the pro level, the NBA should allow them to play. Many people are being held back since they can’t go straight out of high school.
Going to a public school, gave Arthur less opportunities to work with better coaches and scouts that could help him by giving him scholarships for college. His dream slowing started to deteriorate because he realized that basketball didn’t make him happy anymore and same with William. William by the end of high school, didn’t have the same view of basketball as he did when he was a sophomore and most people don’t make it to pro. According to the NCAA, out of the 541,054 high school players, only 1.2% of college players get drafted by the NBA. So the chances of him making it in the NBA were very
Reggie Harding was the first high school player to make the jump from high school to the NBA, and he did this in 1963. He spent five mediocre seasons in the NBA and was never the special player that people thought he would have been. Since then, there have been around 40 high school players who have decided to skip college and declare for the NBA draft. The bulk of these players have come within the last seven to ten years. Out of these forty or so players, no more than ten have had a successful career. Last year seven high school players entered the NBA draft, and only one of those seven had a successful first season, and that was Lebron James (Smith).
Too many college athletes are given the chance to go into a professional draft that doesn't require the athlete to complete all four years of college and earn a degree. This is a problem because athletes lack the college experience that will get them ready for real life situations as they carry out their sports career. In college they will learn skills and have extra time to be better prepared. Without staying in college for fours athletes won’t see that theres more options for them besides sports. It will be hard for them to see if they have other interests besides sports.
Small, tall, big, or strong, everyone loves basketball and the excitement that it has brought to people over this long period of time. NBA League originated on August 3, 1949. In 2006, one rule was established and high school basketball players had to sit out a year or attend different colleges or universities to be in shape for the next year to enter the draft. Many amazing and even best players such as Dwight Howard, Lebron James, and even Kobe Bryant. This leads us to a question, if we really need one and done rule when obviously we can see that high school basketball players have the skill to compete on that level.
Did you know that there are roughly 550,000 male high school basketball players, 15,000 are good enough to make it to play college basketball, one third of that or 5,000 play well enough to make it to division I which is the highest in the NCAA basketball league, and only around 348 go on to play one game in the NBA. On the other hand there are rare cases of players having extraordinary talents and making the jump from high school basketball straight to NBA without any college experience. The debate on this topic is two sided, the first being that the jump from high school to the NBA should not be allowed and the second being that they should be able to do what they want.
This influx of young players is not only hurting the player, but it is hurting the league and college sports. The NBA is now becoming filled with talented but immature players. College sports is losing it’s top athletes, sometimes after one year of college play. The players are also not graduating. This hurts because when a basketball player does not make it in the NBA, he has no degree to fall back on.
College basketball has gone from amateur competition to multi-million dollar tournaments and will continue to get larger and larger. The student-athlete is no longer a student and has become more and more of an athlete. Admissions are loosened and deals are made in order to get the best basketball players in the land. Athletes who are not students are criticized when they leave for the pros even though they are probably doing the right thing by not perpetuating the myth of academics and athletics. College basketball has become a multi-million dollar industry whether schools will admit it or not and the student athlete is the one getting played.
The early age entry rule, has been blamed for taking away the talent that made NCAA basketball popular over the last 40 years (Hughes, 2013). Recently many of the most talented basketball players have entered the NCAA with no intention of playing a second, third, or fourth year. The NBA permits players to be drafted at an age that many have considered is too young to live the lavish lifestyle of a professional player. This has been cause for the big debate of should the NBA change the eligibility to 20 years of age and two years removed from high school.
Like Robinson, these men paved the way for today’s players and are the reason that the best athletes in the world now play in the NBA.” (Dave Howell, NBA.com, Six Who Paved The Way, Page 1). African-Americans in basketball, more specifically the first 5 players, began to make people realize that African Americans were not foreign creatures, they were actual people. People also began to realize that African Americans make equally as significant contributions to the society and community as anyone else
... middle of paper ... ... Although the rate of graduation for male and female basketball players has slipped in the past several years, a minimal amount can be attributed to the high success rate of the African American Athlete in professional sports such as the NBA or NFL.
High school and college basketball players have started to enter the NBA earlier and earlier as the year's progress. In general, this is resulting in a negative effect to the college programs, the NBA, and the players themselves. Before 1994 there were usually only eight to ten early entries into the NBA. The number grew to 18 in 1995, and an astonishing 40 players in 1996, and 47 in 1997. The number of early entries in the NBA grows to the point where it is a problem that needs to be dealt with by the NBA players association. College basketball is in serious trouble. Of course, any sport would be when it's marquee s...
According to livestrong.com, only 3 out of 10,000 high school players actually make it to the NBA. If you do not get drafted, then you cannot play college basketball and that just ruined your dream of ever playing professional basketball. Though, most players do not think about what they will do after the NBA. The money would be great, who would not want millions of dollars for playing basketball? Though, like I said early most NBA players go broke within five years after leaving the league. On average most college degrees take five or six years to get and how will they pay for it if they do not have the money. They are supposed to be adults and some parents will not help their kids. Some want to teach them a lesson or some just can not afford it. Also, it is their retirement, why would they wanted to spend their first five years back in school when they could've already done their school work when they were there on scholarship and had free
Using this data we have discovered that the average NBA center is in the prime of their carreer until they reach the age of 30. For NBA franchises we recommend that a franchise not sign a center to a 3rd contract if they will reach the age of 30. If you do want to sign a player to a 3rd contract while he is the age of 30 we recommend that the franchise structures the contract to benefit the orgranization. To conclude lets say that the average player declares for the NBA draft at the age of 21. That is 9 years of having premium play from the athlete.
...ame all crossed paths as college kids. Building on collegiate stars gave pro basketball an identity. It allows players to develop better due to the superior coaching staff in colleges. Staying in college will also let players develop a valuable following, which benefits the NBA.
Today’s league contains thirty teams and these teams are divided into two conferences, the east and west. Fifteen teams are in the east and fifteen teams are in the west. Another way they are divided is there are six divisions that contain five teams each. Two NBA teams the Golden State Warriors, and the Cleveland Cavaliers have battled it out in the finals for the last three years and are the front runners this year(Trenchard NBA Then and Now). In today’s league, players are relying more and more on a three point shot(Segal 14). Players like Stephen Curry are revolutionizing the game of basketball with their shooting talent(Segal 15). This causes players to have to contain a three point shot in their arsenal to even be considered a superstar(Trenchard NBA Then and Now). There are now even more international players in the league today, and many of them show great potential. International players like Giannis Antetokounmpo and Kristaps Porzingis are just a few examples of rising stars in the game(Segal 79). As of today the NBA is in a phase known as the LeBron era because of how he took the league by storm ever since he arrived.(Segal 22). Right now, guards are being seen as more of the focal point of the team rather than big men(Segal 33). Some of today’s brightest stars include guards like Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Kyrie Irving, and Stephen Curry(Segal 10). Last but not least,