Nba Draft Age Change

The nba has submitted to the national basketball players association a formal proposal that will lower the draft eligible age to 18 from 19 a person with knowledge of the proposal told usa today.

Nba draft age change. Players who have played at least one year of college basketball are eligible for the nba draft. Currently the limit is 19 which leads many athletes. Eligibility rules for prospective players have changed several times during the history of the league.

The nba has formally proposed changing the draft eligible age requirement from 19 to 18 to the national basketball players association usa today reported thursday. Well if nba commissioner adam silver is serious about revisiting the current age rule that latter group needs to be prepared for even more disappointment. This has been colloquially called the one and done rule with such players called one and don.

No player may sign with the nba until they are 19 years or older. But cousins comments also came on the same day that usa today reported that the nba has submitted a formal proposal that would lower the draft eligible age from 19 to 18 by the 2022 draft. It sounds like silver is willing to push.

Usa today citing a source. The nba has submitted to the national basketball players association a formal proposal that will lower the draft eligible age to 18 from 19 a person with knowledge of the proposal told usa today. The nba and its players reportedly are moving forward with plans to eliminate the one and done rule thus lowering the minimum age for entering the nba draft from 19 to 18.

He was covering the shoe mishap when he was tipped off that the nba had submitted a proposal to allow athletes to be drafted at the age of 18.