This weeks "What if Wednesday" takes us to the basketball court.
What if players were never allowed to come straight from high school to the NBA? How would this affect today's game? How would it affect the players?
The first thing that comes to mind is what would have become of players such as Lebron James, Kobe Bryant and Moses Malone? You would think, wow what ever college they would have went to would have been so good. But stop and think, and not just about the players I mentioned, but about all the players that skipped college. Would they have even been accepted into college?
For some of them the answer is no. So if they were never able to skip college we may have never seen some of today's greats on the court. This would have also made an impact on college basketball. How much of an impact is uncertain because if they only had to go to school for one year like now college basketball would still be what it is today, just at a faster rate.
I like that an athlete isn't able to skip college anymore, and not just because going to college gives you a better career path. I like it because it gives a kid an opportunity to mature and be more affective when he finally gets to the NBA.
I personally would like to see the NBA and NCAA make players stay in college for 2 full seasons before entering the NBA Draft.
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