Good. As someone else already said, college basketball is a sham. Most of these kids aren't getting a good education and aren't getting any money out of it. Thus, it's just the colleges that are benefiting from it.
Plus, no one blinks an eye when baseball and hockey players skip college to go to the minor leagues.
Because there is a real minor league that doesn't impact the major team.
If the NBA had a real minor league system, then it would be fine.
They need to add another year. This has never really been about the NCAA. It has been about allowing teams a chance to actually scout a player against good talent so there are less major mistakes in the Drafts.
If the players are better known, even better for the NBA.
you just hit on one of the biggest misconceptions of the Garnett era (1995 to 2006) -- there were NOT significantly more scouting mistakes. You look at the era where high schoolers were draft eligible, and the success rate for them was higher than that for college kids. The Dick Vitales of the world will speak of a strawman of all these high schoolers who got crap advice and made bad decisions, but the empirical evidence just is not there.
There were a few notable busts (Leon Smith, Korleone Young, Ndudi Ebi, Kwame Brown) ... but just as many of the very very best players in the league (KG, Kobe, McGrady, Stoudemire, Al Jefferson, LeBron, Dwight Howard) were straight from high school. If you can play, you can play, and the best of the best showed in year 1 that they belonged.
NBA teams knew about LeBron as a sophomore in high school -- he would have probably been the #1 overall pick back then.
Increasing the age limit will only guarantee more defections to Europe and more recruiting scandals at the NCAA level. The only major reason the age limit exists is so the league can get the free marketing major college basketball provides -- so it can improve its draft TV ratings. There IS also a corporate sales sort of racial angle to the move which Jermaine O'Neal at the time correctly but somewhat hamhandedly pointed out.
To many teams have been bitten by the 'potential' player sitting on the bench, eating up salary.
And how many of these young players don't do anything till they get to their second team?
No, the NBA and the teams want better looks at these players. They want players that are more polished and ready to contribute.
And as a fan, I completely agree. I want to see more rookies able to step out there and contribute. I want to see deep drafts of known players, not just a passing name recognition.
I want to see the NBDL be used by late 1st rounders and 2nd rounders, not lotto picks.
If college benefits from having more talent, as a fan, that to is a win for me watching.
If they go to Europe and struggle to get play time on good teams, that's a win for the fan as well because that player is being challenged to improve.
The only person that is hurt by this is the over hyped HS player that actually doesn't have the talent they are believe to have.