Title: Should college athletes be able to go to NBA straight out of high school?
“I can’t get a degree in two semesters, so it's kind of pointless I feel like i'm wasting my time” that's Ben Simmons on the NCAA. Students are forced to go to college for one year if they wished to go the NBA. Is that fair to students who wish to skip college and are good enough to go to the NBA straight out of high school. Athletes should be able to pursue to go to the NBA straight out of high school.
In 2005 the NBA and the players union negotiated a collective bargaining agreement that said basketball players must attended at least one year of college before being eligible to be drafted to the NBA. This rule was put in place because too many players were coming straight out of high school and they were not mature enough yet to be in the NBA yet. They are a few exceptions to this rule Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, and Kevin Garnett.
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High school athletes should be allowed to go straight to the NBA. These high school athletes should not be forced to attend college for a year. In the process of them going to college for that year the NCAA uses these athletes to make money of them. While the athletes get none of the money that the NCAA makes off of them. Also these players go out every night with the risk of not only a ticky tack injury, more so a career ending injury. That is a college basketball players worst fear, if they were to get injured there chances of getting drafted into the NBA would be
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Reggie Harding was the first high school player to make the jump from high school to the NBA, and he did this in 1963. He spent five mediocre seasons in the NBA and was never the special player that people thought he would have been. Since then, there have been around 40 high school players who have decided to skip college and declare for the NBA draft. The bulk of these players have come within the last seven to ten years. Out of these forty or so players, no more than ten have had a successful career. Last year seven high school players entered the NBA draft, and only one of those seven had a successful first season, and that was Lebron James (Smith).
In the collegiate world of sports, basketball has become an increasingly recognized sport among African Americans, predominantly males. The hope of any young basketball player is that one day a scout will come and recruit them into stardom The question that presents itself as a problem to the lucky few who are chosen to go professional, is whether or not an education is more important than a million dollar shoe deal, “The NCAA's (1998) annual six-year study reported that only 33% of Black male basketball players graduated, (Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999). Individually, basketball reported the lowest graduation rate in all divisions,” (Robinson, 2004:1). Basketball players have become so idolized in the eyes of young Black male basketball athletes, that the value of education appear to be less important in the development of these young men, “According to Sailes (1997), there is an over-representation of Black males in particular sports and an under-representation in other segments of American society. He provides the example of percentages of Black males competing in the NBA (77%), NFL (65%), MLB (15%), and MLS (16%) in comparison to the fact that fewer than 2% of doctors, lawyers, architects, college professors, or business executives are Black males.”, (Robinson, 2004:1). The idea of the attainment of a professional basketball player’s salary in the NBA, without even having to go to school for the time it takes to earn a degree is very appealing to some players. Those with a wealthy, or even upper-middle class upbringing may not view material assets as a priority. In the Black community, we have theorized that money and success play a more important role than education in most households. Although these two seem to go together, one resulting from the other, this does not apply in the sports world. Our research will examine the role that the family value system plays in influencing Black vs. White male athletes to turn professional, as opposed to obtaining a college degree before turning professional.
Did you know that there are roughly 550,000 male high school basketball players, 15,000 are good enough to make it to play college basketball, one third of that or 5,000 play well enough to make it to division I which is the highest in the NCAA basketball league, and only around 348 go on to play one game in the NBA. On the other hand there are rare cases of players having extraordinary talents and making the jump from high school basketball straight to NBA without any college experience. The debate on this topic is two sided, the first being that the jump from high school to the NBA should not be allowed and the second being that they should be able to do what they want.
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The early age entry rule, has been blamed for taking away the talent that made NCAA basketball popular over the last 40 years (Hughes, 2013). Recently many of the most talented basketball players have entered the NCAA with no intention of playing a second, third, or fourth year. The NBA permits players to be drafted at an age that many have considered is too young to live the lavish lifestyle of a professional player. This has been cause for the big debate of should the NBA change the eligibility to 20 years of age and two years removed from high school.
“Big time athletes do get paid. They get free college tuition.”(Posnanski). College athletes not only get tuition, but they also get room, board, and meals. They also get to be coached by top coaches, train in the best training facilities, travel around the country for free, be treated by the best doctors and medicine, and have their chance in the spotlight (Posnanski). With universities constantly raising tuition prices, having free tuition is a big thing, but most, if not all, athletes waste that by focusing just on their sport. The athletes themselves probably aren’t the only ones to blame. Practices should be cut shorter to allow the students’ time to study more and actually get a college education. While you hear many athletes complaining that they don’t have personal spending money, other college students can say the same thing. While athletes are practicing, others are working to pay off tuition fees, which the athletes get free. In an interview at his trial against the NCAA Ed O’Bannon, a former basketball player from UCLA, said “I was an athlete masquerading as a student. I was there strictly to play basketball. I did basically the minimum to make sure I kept my eligibility academically so I could continue to play.” (Dahlberg). People should be going to college for what it is meant for—education, not sports. College sports are an extracurricular activity that should be
As much as we want our favorite college athletes to stay in school for four years, that is not always realistic. Imagine this: a young kid who dreams about being an astronaut does not dream of going to school to become an astronaut. They dream about being an astronaut. Same for the most talented basketball players. They dream about playing in the NBA, not at the collegiate level.
College athletes are manipulated every day. Student athletes are working day in and day out to meet academic standards and to keep their level of play competitive. These athletes need to be rewarded and credited for their achievements. Not only are these athletes not being rewarded but they are also living with no money. Because the athletes are living off of no money they are very vulnerable to taking money from boosters and others that are willing to help them out. The problem with this is that the athletes are not only getting themselves in trouble but their athletic departments as well.
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Coaches like Nick Saban, Les Miles, and John Calipari have contracts that exceed over $50 Million. So again the schools are receiving billions, the coaches are receiving millions, and the players are receiving a so called “free education” but they still have to pay for food, housing, and doctor bills. Now I know a lot of the argument will be when they go be a professional athlete they will be able to pay it all back. While some of this is true the probability for a student athlete to turn pro is about 2%. So out of the hundreds of thousands of student athletes in the country only 2% of them will actually make it into the professional sports world. So they will have to use their education to find a job in a bad
...ith no choice but to accept illegal money. If the NCAA would just pay these athletes some type of payment then athletes would be less likely to break the rules of the NCAA
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