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Originally Posted by P J Shaker
the reason implemented that rule was because if you look at all the guys that come right out of high school into the NBA....only about 10% of them play for more than 3 years.....and then they are bsicly screwed...the quality of the draft was going down and was gettign filled with players that were not ready
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That's not even true. Look at the HS players that have been drafted since 1995 and you see mose successes than failures.
The NBA is built on HS players The biggest stars are guys that made the jump:
KG, Kobe, LeBron, T-Mac, Dwight Howard, Amare.
Then there's the up-and-coming starts:
Joh Smith, Andrew Bynum, Al Jefferson, and Monta Ellis.
After that, there's the guys that are legit starters and have had solid careers. Some borderline all-stars:
Rashard Lewis, Tyson Chandler, Eddy Curry, Al Harrington, DeShawn Stevenson
And we have the players that have had solid careers have found a niche in the league:
Darius Miles, Kwame Brown, DeSagana Diop, Travis Outlaw, Kendrick Perkins, Shaun Livingston, Sebastian Telfair, JR Smith, Dorrell Wright, Martell Webster, Gerald Green, CJ Miles, Andray Blatche, Louis Williams, Jonathan Bender, and Amir Johnson.
Out of the guys that have been drafted, the only real true busts have been:
Korleone Young, Leon Smith, Ousmne Cissie, Ndudi Ebi, James Lang, and Robert Swift...though Swift looked good til he got hurt.
So even though the a lot don't live up to the hype, most of them have nice careers and the minority actually are busts. Hell, as bad as Kwame is, he's still managed to get paid 42 million over his career. And will still have a job next year.