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Message: [QUOTE="Deadrody, post: 2611396, member: 937"] Eh, I disagree. Granted, when you're talking about 5000-6000 total players, sure, some are going to get bubkus, but the fact is, that's 10 times as many that are getting paid to play a kids game than in the NBA. In baseball you have 17 and 18 year olds playing in rookie ball and 30 year olds playing in AAA. Fact is, you can actually make a halfway decent living as a professional minor league baseball player. And by the same token, you have a much larger coaching base with all those minor league teams and international scouting and foreign league organizations for some of those guys to continue their careers. Until the NBA actually has a similar system, my concern is that the NBA wants to be involved with what ? - a dozen kids each year while 10,000 kids think they're one of those dozen. And that's the key. It's a huge difference between actually having a system like minor league baseball and "getting involved with HS players", which MLB doesn't actually do. The baseball system is setup with draft eligibility as follows: [LIST] [*]High school players, if they have graduated from high school and have not yet attended college or junior college; [*]College players, from four-year colleges who have either completed their junior or senior years or are at least 21 years old; and [*]Junior college players, regardless of how many years of school they have completed [/LIST] Keep in mind that even if you're drafted, you don't exhaust your eligibility unless you sign. Then, all of those players are slotted into the appropriate level of the minor league system. Sure, some small number of draftees actually contribute in teh NBA in their rookie season, but even veteran players would probably would benefit. [/QUOTE]

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