The rule is that a player must play a year of basketball in college before playing in the NBA. And many people have said that this rule should stay or even extended to two or even 3 years. But lately many people believe that the NBA should eliminate that rule.
There are many reasons that the number of years in college the player must play should be extended. The High School game and the College game are very different, in High School there is less pressure than in College where you are in a packed gym full of college students cheering for you or against you. In that way the college game can prepare you for the NBA which has all the pressure in all of basketball. There are many players that never lived up to expectations: Kwame Brown, Darius Miles, Sagana Diop, and many others.
On the other hand there are many reasons and examples that High School students can go straight into the NBA. When high school players go straight to the NBA it can give them a lot of confidence. And many great players in the NBA came straight out of high school: LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, Kevin Garnett, Jermaine O'Neal, Tyson Chandler, Tracy McGrady, Josh Smith, Amare Stoudemire, and I could go on. So I believe that the best thing the NBA can do is allow High School players, it creates deeper drafts, and when a player goes into the NBA young they have much more room to develop and adjust.
There are many reasons that the number of years in college the player must play should be extended. The High School game and the College game are very different, in High School there is less pressure than in College where you are in a packed gym full of college students cheering for you or against you. In that way the college game can prepare you for the NBA which has all the pressure in all of basketball. There are many players that never lived up to expectations: Kwame Brown, Darius Miles, Sagana Diop, and many others.
On the other hand there are many reasons and examples that High School students can go straight into the NBA. When high school players go straight to the NBA it can give them a lot of confidence. And many great players in the NBA came straight out of high school: LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, Kevin Garnett, Jermaine O'Neal, Tyson Chandler, Tracy McGrady, Josh Smith, Amare Stoudemire, and I could go on. So I believe that the best thing the NBA can do is allow High School players, it creates deeper drafts, and when a player goes into the NBA young they have much more room to develop and adjust.
-Austin Collins
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