Love how spun up Ph gets about allowing adults that want to play in the NBA to simply pursue that opportunity.
If Zion Williamson would've been a top 5 pick last year, why force him to attend Duke for 8 months only to have him withdraw from school next April, while risking potential injury that could adversely impact his ability to earn life changing money?
For a handful of elite prospects a year, it's ridiculous to force them to pretend to be college students for a portion of the year; just to delay their ability to enter in the NBA draft. It makes NCAA basketball look like a farce. It creates an overwhelming incentive for the recruiting system to become a bidding war as these players only see themselves as professional basketball players, it penalizes schools that play by the rules or that only sign kids that actually plan to graduate and it prevents kids that should be starting their professional careers from doing that. Makes no sense why a great HS baseball player can start his pro career after HS, but a pro basketball player cannot. Pure discrimination.