Age Limit?

[Elise10]

i think there should be a limit.

rookies aren't usually very fundamentally sound, they should go to college and use the 4 years to refine their skills. learn to share the ball more, work on your jumpshot there, learn to adjust to the changes your body is going to go through.

i'd like to see these young athletes go to school to get an education academically also. many of these kids going straight to the NBA could EASILY get a full college scholorship, yet many would rather go for the dough. money can easily be spent or taken away, an education NEVER can be. theres so many young players who don't want to, which shows me they are LAZY. dude, it's FREE, just study and go to class, is that really so much to ask for when everything is being given to you FREE?!?!?!

I agree but from personal experience, even if you do go the full 4, there's always that chance you'll still not be drafted. A cousin of mine went to UCONN, played with Rip Hamilton, won a national championship. Yet he never got drafted, did get his diploma but doesn't put it to good use because he just saw himself as an athelete first, student second.

 

[Gargamel]

Jermaine O'Neal very eloquently and obviously stated last night on ESPN that he only implied racism because the majority of the league is black and thus young black men are primarily affected. He was saying it would be an incidental effect and that he was taken out of context because he was asked if the age limit proposal seemed "racist". Probably a journalist looking to capitalize on Jermaine's well-known candor.

Does that mean that any decision that financially affects one group of players (since "the majority of the league is black and thus young black men are primarily affected") has racial undertones?

 

[BullKing]

No, because basically anyone in this country can pull the race card on any other culture. Every year there's a new race card being pulled about TV characters, First it was African-Americans, then the following year it was Hispanics(or anyone of Latin or Spanish descent) now the current trend is of Asian descent.

I agree, but why is this trend happening?? why are the people so quick to pull the race card??

Why can't we just call each other americans instead of creating "politically correct" terms which often sound ridiculous ??. This is why the problem of racism between blacks and whites in England and France is non existant. Everybody is french and british, there are no African-British and African-French??

 

[Fillmoe]

wow!

 

[jacobdrj]

Then teams with deep-pocket owners and teams from warm-weather cities and/or big markets would always trump teams like SA and Sac.

This is a buisness, if they can't keep up for whatever reason, they should move or fold.

 

[jacobdrj]

The NCAA should do away with its policy on making players ineligible if they declare for the NBA draft and hire an agent. If players don't get drafted or ride the pine for a season out of highschool, they should be allowed to still go to school and play for college teams.

Agreed. If I were an engeneering student under scholorship (or even not) and I apply for a job, whether or not I get it, does that mean I am no longer eligible to take classes at my college? No. It just means that I have a promising situation. I can still go back to school.

 

[AriesMar27]

Agreed. If I were an engeneering student under scholorship (or even not) and I apply for a job, whether or not I get it, does that mean I am no longer eligible to take classes at my college? No. It just means that I have a promising situation. I can still go back to school.

that is true.....

 

[Gargamel]

This is a buisness, if they can't keep up for whatever reason, they should move or fold.

Small market franchises are part of the business.

 

[bozzwell]

I agree, but why is this trend happening?? why are the people so quick to pull the race card??

Why can't we just call each other americans instead of creating "politically correct" terms which often sound ridiculous ??. This is why the problem of racism between blacks and whites in England and France is non existant. Everybody is french and british, there are no African-British and African-French??

This is an example of what I was telling uolj earlier - because of comments like this I cannot discuss this topic without getting "hot undet the hat".

British and other Europeans invented and perfected racism over generations and generations. And no, there are no "African-British" people, in UK blacks are refered to as Afro-Carribian. Both in US and in Europe, overt, out-in-the-open racism is rare and part of the fringe or loony-bin (i.e. KKK in US, various brown-shirt/skinhead groups in UK and Europe). But, there is an overwhelming evidence (in my experience of 10 years in UK and 5 years in USA) of pervasive, low-intensity, latent racism that blights interracial relations on different level through mistrust and lingering grievances. That is why there is always suspicion and why the race card is so easy to draw.

I am outta here...

 

[El Duque]

Does that mean that any decision that financially affects one group of players (since "the majority of the league is black and thus young black men are primarily affected") has racial undertones?

Not by intent, but logically and by effect, certainly.