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Message: [QUOTE="BlueMAB, post: 2430449, member: 920"] No, I don't like the rule. I've outlined an alternative above that I think would be most beneficial to all parties. But that year doesn't only benefit the NCAA/school. It can benefit the player as well through continued development. Many kids have insurance policies in case they get hurt. And the kids who are forced to play the year in college when they might have gone pro, like Hamidou Diallo (?), are occasionally exposed for not being ready, which in the long run helps the NBA's overall product. Which was the point of the rule. Individual teams may want to draft those HS players based on the risk/reward, but it wasn't helping the NBA product as a whole. So what was good for a few players/teams was sacrificed for the NBA as an entity. It's not about whether these kids would be drafted, it's about whether the NBA game is improved when these kids are drafted. They determined that it's not, so as a business, they made a decision to try and improve their product by eliminating the option to take guys straight out of HS. I don't like it, but I understand it. And no, I wouldn't mind having the pick of any major college, and enjoying that life for a year or two, before going pro. Because your belief that it only helps "other companies" isn't true. It can help the kid both as a player, and potentially when the playing career is over and guys want to get into coaching. [/QUOTE]