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The NBA’s one-time rule is reportedly being scrapped.
Shams Charania The Athletic and Stadium reports that the NBA and NBPA are expected to return the draft eligibility age to 18 as part of a new collective bargaining agreement. This change could be made as of his 2024 NBA Draft.
Both sides are reportedly working towards a new deal and have positive momentum, but there is still work to be done.
ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski tweeted some obstacles that both sides have to overcome.
The current CBA will expire after the 2023-24 season.
The terms of the agreement allow both sides to begin formal CBA negotiations immediately by December 15th. Now he is virtually certain that a new deal is on the horizon once the CBA resumes. If the current contract carries over into 2023-24, it will be a mechanism to give both sides time to talk, but it also increases the chances of work coming to a halt.
Protecting players’ mental health is also one of the union’s major bargaining points. Players aim to make mental health, like physical health, a possible designation for missed time.
The new policy is likely to avoid a situation like the one faced by Ben Simmons last season when the Philadelphia 76ers fined him for sitting out over mental health concerns. The two sides later reached a financial settlement over the complaints they filed.)
NBPA executive director Tamika Tremaglio said players are looking beyond their careers to bring fairness to the sport.
“Creating generational wealth is very important in this next chapter of the Commonwealth. It is very important to their legacy. We’ve had – salary caps, etc. We also know that with uncertain longevity (of an NBA career) it’s important to plan for what happens after the ball stops bouncing.
“Given the contribution players make to the game and how they are rewarded for it, we will need more equity structures. It could be the sale of teams. It could be where they are on contract. “We’re receiving equity beyond the four or five years that the contract has been in existence. It’s much broader and I don’t think we’ve seen it historically. It’s here now.”
Most fans invest little in the financial battles between billionaires and millionaires, but the end of One-and-Done would have immediate ramifications for the league as a whole. Since the 2008 draft, we have implemented a rule requiring players to drop out of high school for at least one year.
That change came in a flurry of prep-to-pro busts, essentially turning college basketball into a glorious minor league. I will leave within
While this rule created a fair percentage of one-off legends, it’s hard to say that the draft evaluation process was any more accurate. Draft busts are still a regular occurrence, with roughly the same percentage in prep-to-pro formats.
The NBA seems to have admitted its mistakes in recent years with the launch of the G League Ignite team. Both sides seem to agree that it would be better to cut out middlemen and allow 18-year-olds to rejoin the league. Especially now that the G League’s training system has been strengthened.
