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All drafted players must be at least 19 years old during the calendar year of the draft. [14] Any player who is not an "international player", as defined in the CBA, must be at least one year removed from the graduation of his high school class. [14] The "one year out of high school" requirement is in addition to the age requirement.
In education in the United States, reclassification or reclassing is the assignment of a student's high school (secondary school) graduation class to either a year earlier or later than their original. For young athletes, graduating a year earlier frees them to start their college sports career, with the hope of playing professionally sooner.
The WNBA's draft eligibility rules make players finish four years of college or turn 22 in the calendar year of the draft. But there's much more than just enacting a one-and-done rule.
The current age limit for NBA draft eligibility is 19, measured on December 31 of the calendar year of the draft. [6] The WNBA's age limit is 20 for "international players" and 22 for U.S. players, both also being measured as of December 31 of the calendar year of the draft. [4]
For years, college officials have pushed back against athlete employment. And yet, these new contracts and revenue-sharing concepts only makes the legal argument for employment stronger.
Redshirt, in United States college athletics, is a delay or suspension of an athlete's participation in order to lengthen their period of eligibility.Typically, a student's athletic eligibility in a given sport is four seasons, aligning with the four years of academic classes typically required to earn a bachelor's degree at an American college or university.
Even coaching youth football in Texas, Sanders joked how “we had to get everybody out of the portal for 5-year-old kids to 12-year-old kids. That means from other teams.”
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]