[DC 86]

My point about one-and-dones is that prior to that being an option, a player had to stay 3 years before they could enter the draft. So maybe those players would never go to college which I hadn't considered.

Staying in college for three years (or any number of years for that matter) was not a requirement prior to the implementation of the one-and-done rule in 2006. For example, Marvin Williams played only one season at North Carolina before being drafted second overall in 2005 (the final draft before the one-and-done was implemented). Prior to that you had one-and-dones such as DaJuan Walker, Luol Deng, Kris Humphries and Trevor Ariza in 2004, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh in 2003 ...

The one-and-done rule was put in place to stop players from going directly from high school to the NBA. Leaving college after one year or two years (e.g. Magic Johnson) basically dates back to Spencer Haywood prevailing in his anti-trust suit against the NBA in the early 1970s (until then a player wasn't eligible to be drafted until his college class graduated, i.e. four years).

There were one-and-dones for 35 years prior to the one-and-done rules, the difference is that since 2006 you have some players compelled to go to college for one year who would have gone directly to the NBA if allowed, which in many cases creates the farcical situation of athletes being students in name only, as BC implied.

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[DC 86]

My point about one-and-dones is that prior to that being an option, a player had to stay 3 years before they could enter the draft. So maybe those players would never go to college which I hadn't considered.

Staying in college for three years (or any number of years for that matter) was not a requirement prior to the implementation of the one-and-done rule in 2006. For example, Marvin Williams played only one season at North Carolina before being drafted second overall in 2005 (the final draft before the one-and-done was implemented). Prior to that you had one-and-dones such as DaJuan Walker, Luol Deng, Kris Humphries and Trevor Ariza in 2004, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh in 2003 ...

The one-and-done rule was put in place to stop players from going directly from high school to the NBA. Leaving college after one year or two years (e.g. Magic Johnson) basically dates back to Spencer Haywood prevailing in his anti-trust suit against the NBA in the early 1970s (until then a player wasn't eligible to be drafted until his college class graduated, i.e. four years).

There were one-and-dones for 35 years prior to the one-and-done rules, the difference is that since 2006 you have some players compelled to go to college for one year who would have gone directly to the NBA if allowed, which in many cases creates the farcical situation of athletes being students in name only, as BC implied.

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