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Personally I'd like to see this rule come into effect. Forcing players to one year of college is a joke. Can you imagine how great it would be for college hoops if Durant, Oden and Conley were here this year, along with all the freshmen? There would be no favorites to win the title. College hoops fans all win. And if Beasley, Rose and Gordon had to stay another year?

They should just go ahead and make it so that if these kids want to come out they play in the Development league until they are 21.

thats BS. Why make these kids stay when they're clearly ready to play in the NBA? Forcing them to stay makes a mockery of the student-athlete label.

Would it be nice to have the CBB talent pool deeper? Absolutely. However, if I'm Derrick Rose, growing up on the south side of chicago and ready to be a top-3 pick at age 18/19, there's no reason the NBA should keep him out.

Pro-athletes have a finite amount of time for their careers. They should get paid if they can play.

It's all AGAINST the foundations of the US gov't, namely the Declaration of Independence "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". Yes, EVEN the NFL rule, it's just going to take someone more worthy than a Maurice Clarett to overturn it:

However, earlier judicial opinion, in Butchers' Union Co. v. Crescent City Co., 111 U.S. 746 (1884), considered Jefferson's phrase to refer to one's economic vocation of choice rather than the more ephemeral search for emotional fulfillment, although one may be predicated on the other. U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Johnson Field, in his concurring opinion[3] to Associate Justice Samuel Freeman Miller's opinon, wrote:

Among these inalienable rights, as proclaimed in that great document, is the right of men to pursue their happiness, by which is meant the right to pursue any lawful business or vocation, in any manner not inconsistent with the equal rights of others, which may increase their prosperity or develop their faculties, so as to give to them their highest enjoyment.

VOCATION!

The NBA should be able to make their own rules.
- if they want an age minimum, that is their perrogative.

I personally think it should not be an 'age' rule, rather an 'experience' rule- meaning x amount years of college OR x amount years of some sort of professional ball.
This way......if a poor kid who is a phenomenal talent needs to make $, they can join another professional league here in America or go overseas. They CAN make a living elsewhere. Kind of like a counrty club- its a private organization, with other options if you can't get in. It's NOT a monopoly.
It's not their 'inalienable right' to play in the NBA.

The league was bad for years post-jordan, because there were too many kids coming in ( from here & from overseas-) that were drafted based on 'potential'
Now with an age minimum, GM's can scout these kids longer and against better competition than against other HS kids, which makes the overall league better.

Discrimination based on age? thats a novel concept. Age rules no doubt benefit the NCAA and the CBB talent pool. They might as well pay college players since they are steering kids to this path for their marketing benefit.

Hey JGB, just wanted to let you know that "I personally think" is a redundant statement. And no, the analogy of it being like a country club abounds with faulty reasoning. In addition to things such as draft rights, contract negotiations, labor unions, name one player who PAID the NBA to play??
Your assumption that the NBA was "bad post-Jordan" was multifactoral and not solely based on "potential" prospects. The age minimum has been in effect one year and suddenly the NBA is great again??
Try taking a course on logic and come back with some cogent arguments. Everybody's got an opinion, some are just more intelligent than others (see thymeister's op).
Humblepie

Pro-athletes have a finite amount of time for their careers. They should get paid if they can play.
duany | 04/08/08, 10:06 AM

And that is the bottom line.

Listen ima realist so i'm this statement will cause controvers or seem immature but the truth of the fact is that David Stern is tired of young black guys coming out of high school into the big leagues. This is America Land of the free and home of the brave allegedly ... with the exception of sports like golf, baseball,tennis hockey etc (predominitley non african anerican sports) as in the Nba you cant come out high school and make millions but you can go and get killed in a war imean at the end of the day if a kid doesnt make it in the nba it should be his decision not David Stern(****) just my personal opinion

It's appaulling the amount of socialists in this country who want to put rules and regulations on everything. At 18 your are an adult. You have the right to make a living. Freekin' baby boomers!

Please no age limit. Parity is so much better when it is only the kids who want to play. I'm a Butler and a Notre Dame fan, so I like to see our players stay the full four years.

i cant judge these kids for turning pro after a year...its good for some of them because a lot of those kids have families who are hardly getting by and pro basketball is their ticket(i.e. Amare stoudamire) amare's mom used to write blank checks just to put food on the table for him...so you people need to think twice before you say these kids should stay one more year in CB...

18 should be the age limit period. There should be no rule that keeps adults from making a living. A lot of pro athelte's come from underprivlaged families that struggle to get by. Don't tell me you would stay another year in college when you had a gaurenteed million dollar contract awaiting you. You never know when a career ending injury will occur

Personally as a fan i would love for the NBA rule to be just like the NFL rule. It would increase the talent level in both the NBA and the NCAA ranks. Forget who makes how much money. For every lebron there are 10 kids who with a couple more college years would be playing in the NBA get tossed to the wayside. Age limits are in every type of business. Restaurants that will only hire 21 and older. Cab companies that only higher 25 and older. Hell by most of the standards here they should be able to drop their senior high season to join up because they can make money. you say they have a certain amount of time to play. look at Jordan, Bird Johnson. they played through their junior year and went on to have some of the best basketball careers ever.

they need to enact that rule and do it asap!!!

Freekin' SOCIALISTS!! You Baby Boomers are all about age discrimination as long as its not forced retirement buyouts. What ever happened to individual rights!

that is so gay
its the players decisions
they do wat is rigtht for them