Rick Pitino Wants NBA Age Rule Changed
January 31, 2010
Current Louisville head man and former Boston Celtics head coach Rick Pitino wants the NBA minimum age rule amended to resemble the rule in use by Major League Baseball.
Currently, the NBA’s minimum age requirement before one can enter the draft is 19 years of age. This rule makes it almost a certainty that players will have to spend at least one year in college following their senior year of high school before becoming old enough to enter the draft.
Major League Baseball allows allows high school graduates to jump right into the professional ranks. But if a player decides to attend college, that player is locked into three years unless he meets the minimum age requirement after two years in school.
One oversight that Pitino has is that baseball has a successful minor league system in place where players can develop and mature.
Basically, Pitino is saying that he doesn’t like all the one-and-done business that is going on with players leaving after just one year of college. When these top notch players leave after just one year, it is difficult for programs to sustain success unless they can continually pull top recruits.
Perhaps, the NBA’s development league will take on the form of minor league baseball at some point, but that might damage the college game to a further extent.
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