Commissioner says current high school freshmen could be the first group allowed to skip college and jump straight to the league.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver discusses the state of the league at Economic Club of D.C. on Thursday. By Rick Maese Rick Maese Reporter covering a variety of subjects, including health and safety, Olympics, legal and political issues in sports Email Bio Follow May 9 at 4:40 PM Next month, many of the world’s top 19-year-old basketball players will gather in New York for an NBA draft that will change their lives and their credit limits.
The matter has to be collectively bargained, and Silver said implementing the rule sooner than 2022 wouldn’t be fair to teams that have made trades involving draft picks nor would it give the league enough time to work with players who would be entering the league at a young age. The NBA has reached an agreement with USA Basketball that allows front-office personnel to scout the under-16 national camps, ESPN reported last month.
Silver noted that when he first took on the NBA’s top job in 2014, he was actually in favor of raising the league’s minimum age to 20. Nine years earlier, the league and the players’ union agreed to raise the minimum age from 18 to 19, which barred high school prospects from skipping college entirely. But the commissioner’s views have evolved.
Thursday’s luncheon was attended by about 400 business leaders, including Nationals owner Ted Lerner and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. The moderator, David Rubenstein, president of the Economic Club, asked Silver whether he’s concerned about college players who stop attending classes once their freshman seasons come to a close.
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