I never meant to suggest Wall was going to apply for the NBA draft. I only meant I'd like to see him challenge the NBA draft rule simply because I think the rule is a farce. The rule is basically in place so that NBA scouts no longer have to scout high school basketball games. So now the college ranks have become what the NBDL should have been. And guys with the talent of Kobe and Lebron are forced to attend college when they'd rather be playing professionally. And now the college ranks are having to deal with the issues of players like OJ Mayo and Derrick Rose when they should have been in the NBA or NBDL to start with.
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Originally Posted by Samdari
John Wall's decision to apply or not centered around the interpretation of whether or not he was eligible under the current rule (apparently, it was somewhat ambiguous). He never intended to challenge the current rule. Doing so would seem somewhat foolish considering that the federal court system ruled emphatically in the Maurice Clarett/Mike Williams case that collectively bargained age limits are legal.
As for the next round of CBA, the age limit is likely to get raised to two years after high school. It probably has no chance of going away.
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