The sport of basketball has been one of the greatest sportw made in the United States. Over the past years, the sport has evolved into a world wide sport with every country now having a competative team. Here in the United States, we have the Nba ( National Basketball Association). The dream of a lot of kids is to o ne day be a star in the NBA while making millions. However, there are restrictions now to those that want to accomplish their dream and goals of becoming a NBA player early. Those restrictions deal with the NBA draft.
The NBA Draft is an event where a lot of kids sit and wait to hopefully hear their names be called to become part of a proffessional basketball team. The NBA Draft is an event that can turn a struggling team upsidedown. Athletes after a year of college can have their dream come true. BUT WAIT!!! A YEAR OF COLLEGE????? What if I'm ready to go right after high school? What if college is just not for me. What if basketball is all I'm good at? NBA responds; TOO BAD!
The NBA rule is, to be eligible for the NBA draft, you have to at least have a year of college under your belt. However, a lot of atheltes question the rule because they feel it is a waste of time and money to go to college knowing that they are not going to complete the full four years. The question in a lot of people's minds is, is it like this in every sport?
Major League Baseball (MLB) drafts a lot of theri players from highschool while still playing their senior year. They can decide to go with the team and join the teams minor league system, or they can decide to go to college and p lay for the team there.
Soccer has no age limit when it comes to signing players. There has been a lot of occasions where a club team will sign a ten year old onto their team. Just four years ago, a MLS soccer team signed a fourteen year old named Freddy Adu with a contract that was worth more than 100 million dollars. Over the seas in Europe, they are known to give that amount of money to kids that havent reached double digits in age.
Whay has the NBA always had the rule and not give the opportunity for a younger player to turn pro? Well, It hasnt always been this way. A few years ago, players were allowed to enter the NBA draft and some of them actually have become the face of the NBA.
Things still needed to discuss:
Briefly talk about the careers of Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, and Kevin Garnett.
Possibly mention the NBA's reason why the rule was made.
Talk more about how college is not for everyone and if a rule like that was made it should be for staying all four years, not just one.
Questions:
WHat else can i add to my list of :things still needed to discuss?
Is there anything i can fix with what i already have written?
Is it more important to talk about the success of people that started playing out of high school or talk about the belieif of athletes that say going to college is a waste of time and not for them?
1 comment:
This is a nicely focused topic and one I think you can continue building into a really interesting essay. I was surpised in your notes when you said you might "possibly" mention why the NBA has this rule. What you've written so far will probably make the reader want to know exactly why this rule exists. You mention several other sports that have shorter or no post-high school requirements. You don't mention football, however, which has a two-year rule. Be careful not to cherry pick your examples too much.
A few questions to get you thinking:
- you've given the reasons atheletes question this rule. why do others question it or support it (coaches, parents, schools, etc.)?
- what sort of beliefs/myths does this policy invoke or depend on for its acceptance? Or is it really just a pragamatic or economic choice not based on beliefs at all?
- Is this policy in some part a way of battling against myths high schoolers have about their chances of being NBA stars?
- What would change if the NBA reduced the time to nothing or extended it to two years?
- Why is there a difference between different sports in regards to going pro? Is this a historical oddity, or is it an intentional response to some sort of trend in professional basketball?
- You say "college is not for everyone." While this is probably true, professional basketball is a much more exclusive club. So, while college is not for everyone it seems like it's for a lot more people than pro basketball is. Those who actaully get into pro ball will almsot deinfitely complain that that one year of college was a waste of time. But how do you solicit the opinions of all those who didn't make it pro and completed college? (In other words, towhat degree will looking only at the opinions of players who successfully went pro going to skew the answers to be biased against going to college?)
By the way, I don't think the rule is that you have to go to college for a year; I think it's that you have to be one year away from high school and 19. Presumably, you could spend this year working at a normal job, volunteering, or, if you're Brandon Jennings, playing ball in Europe. Granted, most do go to college for a year, but I don't think it's a requirement.
I look forward to your revised draft.
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