Basketball Player Age Restrictions - Is Change Coming?
Just wanted to follow up on this week’s recent blog post about high school basketball players and the problems with the NBA’s “one-and-done” rule.
First, in an op-ed piece in the New York Times, Buzz Bissinger weighs in on all the problems with the NBA's age limit restriction that he has observed in the years since its implementation. From the article:
But the right decision would be to abolish the N.B.A. age limit. Equally important, professional sports leagues and the N.C.A.A. should stop jumping into the same Jacuzzi together, turning the idea of “student-athletes” into a farce, padding university coffers and keeping the pro owners from having to pay for the grooming of young talent
Sports Law Blog provides it usual cogent analysis of the legal ramifications of the situation.
Second, Darren Heitner of Sports Agent Blog, which is a must-read for anyone interested in learning how sports agents do business, weighs in on a new NCAA proposal regarding amateurism and opportunities for student athletes to play professional sports overseas upon graduating from high school. Jeremy Tyler did not graduate from high school, so this rule would not have affected him had it been in place at present. Still, the fact that the NCAA is even considering changing this paradigm is newsworthy in and of itself.
