I know it’s Tournament time and the last thing fans probably want to talk about is the NBA Draft age limit, but Matt Moore of cbssports.com is reporting that Florida coach Billy Donovan would like to see the NBA get rid of the age restriction completely. When new NBA Commissioner Adam Silver took over, one of the first things he said was he wants the age limit for college players to enter the draft changed to 20 years old.
Here is an excerpt from the article with Donovan’s take on the rule change.
“College basketball coaches and programs are taking on all the risks,” Donovan says. “The kid doesn’t want to be in college and wants to be in the NBA, but because of the rules, he has to stay in college. Now you’re opening yourself up for potential NCAA violations. … You’ve got players like Jabari Parker [Duke] or Julius Randle [Kentucky], and there is so much coming at these kids. If a kid takes something he’s not supposed to take or he is enticed into something, it’s the colleges that are put in harm’s way.”
“It’s colleges that have to handle situations like this and what comes with it,” Donovan says of the inducements being offered to big-time NBA prospects. “And what comes with it is a lot of enticement, a lot of agent involvement, a lot of people hovering around and a lot of people trying to get their hooks into the kid. And then if the kid makes a mistake or doesn’t do the right thing, all of the sudden it falls on the institution. That’s not right when the kid should have never been in college in the first place and should already have been in the NBA.”
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