NBA expected to lower draft eligibility age to 18

I doubt it changes much. There will only be a select few that the NBA will gamble on at that age. They still view college as the farm system.

 

Should help CBB in my opinion..

 

Glad it will eliminate kids that really don’t want to be in college. Don’t like the one and done system. Realize they will still have opportunities to leave after a year or transfer without sitting out a year, but the Kobe, Lebron, Malone, Garnett types don’t need college.

 

It can't be any worse than what we have now.


Not that it is a good thing.

 

All they need is one Kobe or LeBron and it will be back to where it was drafting Kwames.

 

Kwa

Kwame Brown says "hello!"

 

For the kids, it’s a little different now. If they’re unsure if they’re “ready”, they get the best of both worlds. They get paid NIL money, and they get the college training (which has to be a better overall experience than the D League.
And for those kids where college is just not for them, there’s still the D League.

 

I have some very important news for you. The D League went away several years ago.

 

No it didn’t. it was simply rebranded. The name went away…that’s it.

And, for those that don’t know: it was changed to G league when Gatorade became the league name sponsor.

 

You’ll be hearing from my lawyers.

 

Can’t we just have a 3 pt shoot out to determine a winner? Much more fun than doing anything with lawyers.

 

What’s in a name …

NBA G League - Wikipedia

The NBA Development League a/k/a NBA D League I became known as the NBA Gatorade League which is now known as NBA G League.

I’m now exhausted from writing the above so I am going to go to sleep a/k/a bed and sometimes known as sleepy time.

 

What's in a name? That which we call a D-League by any other name would smell as putrid.
--Bill Shakespeare

 

I have now done extensive research on this subject. Yes, the current 30-team NBA G League, which was created in its current form by Dr. Robert Cade, does trace back to the D League, the Continental Basketball Association, the Eastern Basketball League and all the way back to ancient times when Moses and his assistant, St. James Naismith, walked down Mt. Sinai with 3 tablets and a couple of Voits. Yes, it’s true that one of the tablets fell and shattered into numerous pieces. That shattered tablet was the one that contained the basic basketball rules of passing the ball around to open teammates, setting screens, boxing out, playing all your players, etc. If that tablet hadn’t shattered, we wouldn’t have suffered like we did over the last 7 years of Gator basketball. But now, direct from the Holy Land, the golden one has arrived to lead us out of the desert. Go Gators