Submitted by collegehoopsking on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 15:15
The new trend among high school players who are good enough to be a lottery draft pick, but are not eligible because of NBA rules could be to play in Europe.
The NBA has a rule that a player must be one year out of high school before they can be drafted. The rule was designed to force players to play at least one year of college basketball, but that might not happen anymore.
Brandon Jennings, the high school star from Oak Hill Academy, has said he is seriously considering forgoing an obligatory year at Arizona and heading straight to professional basketball in Europe.
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I'm all for sticking it to the NBA and their stupid rules. Seriously, how is one year of college basketball suppose to benefit the player more than a year in the NBA or Europe. College is not for everyone, and making players suffer through one year of fake college classes does nothing to help.
The dream of these players is to get paid to play basketball, and if they have to go to Europe to do it, then they just might. Their dream is not to watch college guys hung over and sleeping through classes, and girls parading around campus in stripper clothes.
I am a recent college graduate from a California state university, and can tell you that college is O-VER-RATE-D. Overcrowded classrooms, poor student teachers, and students who only care about what frat is having the best party that night is not the American dream for everyone.
The mandatory one year out of high school rule is another stupid mistake by the NBA. I say let the kids get paid now.
