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.
No, I’m pretty sure there will always be draft busts. One year of promise and done...
The hell it is Adam! I'm a one-and-done playa! Everybody knows if you hit it more than once, bitches fall in love! Whatchya gonna do bout that?!
No one is an island one has to be versatile in different areas of life... restricting one to particular thing is like caging a bird who is born to fly
How? They will go play overseas for a salary at 16 and be drafted at 18. Good luck with that. The only way to do this is to make the min age 21 to play in the NBAans that’s not likely to happen. It’s also likely not legal.
Good it's about time. People don't tell child actors and singers YOU CANT entertain because you didn't go to college. These people dont give a damn about these athletes education plus it shouldn't matter no way. They are there for their skills not their mental acumen.