re: Commish Adam Silver: Pushing back NBA Age Limit from 19 to 20 is "Top Priority"

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lol what??

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If the only two options you give these kids are either to go to college for at least three years, no questions asked, or to go pro right away, just about every kid with any pro future whatsoever is going to pick the latter option.

Sure, you'll get a few NBA prospects who genuinely want to go to college, but they'll be outnumbered by the vast majority of prospects who go pro, the majority of whom wouldn't be anywhere near ready for the NBA. The NBA doesn't have the farm system to support the numbers of prospects that would be declaring every year, and most of those prospects would end up in Europe.

College basketball would get the leftovers. With a diluted talent pool, college basketball would lose what national relevance it does have. College baseball employs a similar system and is less nationally relevant than minor league baseball.

And, either way, having prospects play college basketball is good for the NBA. It's a year of free scouting and free exposure. It ensures that guys like Austin Rivers aren't taken at the top of the draft. I doubt the NBA would want all of their prospects going pro immediately.

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So the Wiggins & Parker's of the World who know going into the Spring semester that they're gone after it are still taking classes & concentrating on their studies while playing in the tourney, interviewing agents, preparing for draft camps, signing endorsement deals, etc?

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they have accelerated coursework and shite that they can finish early and focus on draft shite. embiid said a couple weeks ago that he was done with school and good to go.

that may be unique to kansas and a few other schools for guys like wiggins, parker, embiid, randle, but i doubt it.

im sure they are the easiest of classes and shite, but it gets taken care of by the player with help from the school.