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In the third annual High School Hoops magazine, [40] the players weighed in on the subject of the new rules regarding draft eligibility. Many of them felt that it was unfair. Kansas State freshman Bill Walker, said (as a junior in high school), "I'm against it. I don't see why you have to be 19 to play a game of basketball when you can be 18 ...
Collegiate players dominated the NBA draft for decades since its inception in 1950. From 1995 to 2005, NBA teams drafted a slew of just-graduated high school standouts like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, Dwight Howard, Tracy McGrady and Amar'e Stoudemire. To counteract this, the NBA implemented an age requirement in July 2005.
In the early years of the NBA draft, a player had to finish his four-year college eligibility to be eligible for selection. Reggie Harding, who had graduated from high school but did not enroll in a college, became the first player drafted out of high school when the Detroit Pistons selected him in the fourth round of the 1962 draft. [3]
Over four NBA seasons, he has averaged 4.6 points per game. Jake LaRavia, Lawrence Central, Indiana State. He appeared in 35 games for the Memphis Grizzlies in his rookie season, averaging 3.0 points.
Three years ago, there were only high-major, blue-blood programs vying for the top high school talent in the country. Over the past summer and through this high school season, NBA scouts and ...
A.J. Dybantsa, a 6-foot-9 wing, has reclassified up from the 2026 to the 2025 high school class, he announced Wednesday morning. Dybantsa is one of the best players in the country regardless of ...
The NBA play-in tournament is the preliminary National Basketball Association (NBA) postseason tournament. It determines the final two playoff seeds in the Eastern Conference and Western Conference and is played immediately prior to the NBA playoffs, which is the main tournament of the postseason and regarded by the league as separate from the play-in tournament.
With college basketball in the midst of a massive scandal the NBA looks ready to end the one-and-done rule and allow elite prospects to skip college.