Baylor brings back 2023 Draft pick

[HW611]

Eligible immediately.

How stupid can this get?

Let’s see Liam come back for another year.

 

[Nameless]

...how?

Edit: just looked up his stats and saw he never played a game in the NBA. I'm guessing that's the logic here? He was never officially on a roster during a season?

 

[JakeTheDog]

Only a matter of time before an active NBA guy says “f it, college ball sounds fun” and is granted eligibility.

 

[alexd]

Only a matter of time before an active NBA guy says “f it, college ball sounds fun” and is granted eligibility.

You already have G League guys coming back to college.

 

[HooperScooper]

What are we doing here? Eligibility is becoming a joke.

 

[navery12]

He never actually signed an NBA contract, he continued playing overseas. So I imagine that's the loophole they found

 

[FfldCntyFan]

So declaring for the draft and not withdrawing by the deadline costs a kid his eligibility, but if you've already been drafted,......

I don't get it.

 

[Fan1978]

What are we doing here? Eligibility is becoming a joke.

Yet cam could not get another year of eligibility last year. Probably 3 peat with him

 

[HuskyNan]

 

[Tenspro2002]

College basketball is now a professional minor league sport with better branding and brand loyalty.

This is just the next (mind-numbingly stupid) natural evolution.

 

[navery12]

Hopefully this opens the door to what I've long wanted for college basketball, playing in college while an NBA team has your rights

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Hopefully this opens the door to what I've long wanted for college basketball, playing in college while an NBA team has your rights

Why is that better? Serious question not even being sarcastic. I know hockey does that but why is that better?

 

[AllHusky]

Why is that better? Serious question not even being sarcastic. I know hockey does that but why is that better?

Baseball also, yes?

 

[gsmooth]

Eligible immediately.

How stupid can this get?

Let’s see Liam once to come back for another year.

 

[HooperScooper]

Baseball also, yes?

Don’t think you can get drafted from college and then go back to college. You can get drafted after high school and go to college but I don’t think the team that drafted you retains your rights.

 

[HailUConn]

NCAA as a governing body should get their heads examined…


Or better yet,
It needs to go.

 

[How Sway?!]

Eligible immediately.

How stupid can this get?

Let’s see Liam once to come back for another year.

I mean, this stuff happens in baseball and hockey already. He got drafted as a high school prospect, didn't sign with the team that drafted him and went back to playing in Europe. High schools baseball and hockey players that don't sign with the team that drafted them are able to go to college, why wouldnt he?

 

[HailUConn]

 

[FfldCntyFan]

There was a time in baseball when if a kid was drafted out of HS who went to college, the team that drafted him kept his rights for a couple of years.

In the NBA, if a player was four years out of HS, but still had eligibility remaining (normally due to sitting out a year due to a transfer), he could enter the draft, return to school, then the team that drafted him had from the end of the college basketball season until (IIRC) the day before the draft to sign home, or he would reenter the draft. This is how the Celtics landed Larry Bird. The Suns did the same with Kyle Macy & the Knicks with Reggie Carter. Some time around 1980-1981 they stopped allowing this, not sure if it was initiated by the NBA or NCAA. Baseball did the same somewhere around the same time.

 

[navery12]

Why is that better? Serious question not even being sarcastic. I know hockey does that but why is that better?

Not better per se, just think it's an interesting wrinkle and could benefit kids if they're not rushing to the NBA

 

[karstenkibbe]

Fun, but unrelated fact: Scott Burrell was drafted in the first round by the Mariners in 1989, and then was drafted by the Blue Jays in 1990.

 

[Ha Who]

NCAA as a governing body should get their heads examined…


Or better yet,
It needs to go.

Call it the BIGSEC governing body

 

[REB1094]

Soooooo dumb. 21 years old and has been playing professional basketball for 4 years and now has full college eligibility

I don’t even care about the NBA draft part since he never played. It’s insane that guys the age of college graduates WHO HAVE PLAYED PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL are eligible to come back and play college ball. Makes no sense

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Soooooo dumb. 21 years old and has been playing professional basketball for 4 years and now has full college eligibility

I don’t even care about the NBA draft part since he never played. It’s insane that guys the age of college graduates WHO HAVE PLAYED PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL are eligible to come back and play

Here’s a fun hypothetical: the Knicks (own his rights) can call him up or trade him elsewhere and he would have to leave Baylor on the spot.

 

[Scottzer]

St. John’s needs a pg. I hope they don’t go get Chris Paul.