Any player who stays in college is a retard

[DoodleDa]

These are all your subjective point of views and very far from reality.

[Flash31]

The advantage of getting an education is that if your NBA career doesn't pan out, you can do something better than flipping burgers or delivering newspapers

well,usually athletes are taking irrelevant and meaningless classes just to get by and focus on athletics.

The sheer advantage of another NBA salary for a year is huge.

Most people in their lifetime maybe make what an NBA draft pick makes in the first year.

[missionman]

a top 10 pick makes $6MM guaranteed. A top 20 pick makes $3.6MM guaranteed. Presuming somehow that the time value of money negates the impact of higher tax brackets for that level of salary, you'd have to make $100k for 36 years to make what the 20th pick makes in 3 years...

[secund2nun]

The advantage of getting an education is that if your NBA career doesn't pan out, you can do something better than flipping burgers or delivering newspapers

Most college grads these days are flipping burgers and delivering newspapers. Undergrad degrees are worthless for most people. Plus if you are a high NBA pick you will make way more money in the NBA even if you are a bust than you will ever dream of with a normal job not to mention that basketball players don't have time to take anything but the easiest majors.

[oarabbus]

Any player who stays in college is a retard

Fucccing ironic as fucccc.

[christian1923]

Hoopers have gone to the HOF cause of how good they were in college. I don't know how people can write off college hoops doesn't mean anything. The ncaa tournament is 10x better than anything the NBA can offer honestly.

[oarabbus]

Hoopers have gone to the HOF cause of how good they were in college. I don't know how people can write off college hoops doesn't mean anything. The ncaa tournament is 10x better than anything the NBA can offer honestly.

Your first part is true but the bolded is not

March madness is fantastic but
NBA >>>>>> NCAA

[christian1923]

Your first part is true but the bolded is not

March madness is fantastic but
NBA >>>>>> NCAA

Not the playoff system to me. NBA playoffs are predictable, we all know the finals is going to be either Miami/Indy vs Spurs/Thunder.. There's no surprise. You never know in college. Obviously the talent is alto better in the league though.

[secund2nun]

Hoopers have gone to the HOF cause of how good they were in college. I don't know how people can write off college hoops doesn't mean anything. The ncaa tournament is 10x better than anything the NBA can offer honestly.

I like the NBA a lot more than the NCAA. The Cinderella stuff is a good novelty, but it cannot compare to the NBA playoffs where the best team usually wins. The NCAA tournament is just a matter of getting hot at the right time. It doesn't actually crown the best team and it basically makes the rest of the season until that point irrelevant.

[BIZARRO]

This thread is pretty much an epic fail. Parts of it anyway. Almost EVERY player before 1996 stayed multiple years. Duncan, MJ, Magic, Bird, Wilt, Russell, Oscar, Barkley, Dr. J, Kareem, , etc. pretty much everyone. Really hurt their development.

I don't care if you say they're retards for not taking the money, but don't throw out the worse development angle, as there is NO evidence to the contrary other than just very few players.

That one and done mentality is one of the things that made the league so soft to begin with.

19 year old kids without fundamentals languishing on the bench, getting fat on the coin.

The money is a double edged sword, and don't think for a second money and the NBA lifestyle, clubs, etc. not busting it on every possession like in college is gonna help your development (unless you're a Kobe or Lebron).

Your arguing from exceptions, not the rule, or former rule anyway. Before play got real sloppy.

[El Kabong]

You're not even taking into account the emotional and maturity aspect of it. Physically and skill wise there may be some ready after 1 year, but mentally are they? Debatable for some, and once they get to the NBA level they'll get everything handed to them most likely.

Also, i'd say there are a ton of bigmen who'd have been better off staying (or even going) to college rather than jumping into the NBA.

[wakencdukest]

This thread is pretty much an epic fail. Parts of it anyway. Almost EVERY player before 1996 stayed multiple years. Duncan, MJ, Magic, Bird, Wilt, Russell, Oscar, Barkley, Dr. J, Kareem, , etc. pretty much everyone. Really hurt their development.

I don't care if you say they're retards for not taking the money, but don't throw out the worse development angle, as there is NO evidence to the contrary other than just very few players.

That one and done mentality is one of the things that made the league so soft to begin with.

19 year old kids without fundamentals languishing on the bench, getting fat on the coin.

The money is a double edged sword, and don't think for a second money and the NBA lifestyle, clubs, etc. not busting it on every possession like in college is gonna help your development (unless you're a Kobe or Lebron).

Your arguing from exceptions, not the rule, or former rule anyway. Before play got real sloppy.

From a player standpoint, it's a good move to go pro. But, it does absolutely nothing for the quality of the NBA game. I don't know how any fan can say that flooding the league with "potential" is actually good. The NBA is actually worse off with more young, physically undeveloped, immature players, watering down the league. Look at all the underclassmen in the first round of the last draft, people here are already calling a lot of them busts. That's not necessarily the case, they might just need 5 years to develop into something.