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Topic: Basketball can't 'screw up' changes to NBA Draft, recruiting
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catmandoo
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posted 07-17-2018 10:23 PM
Calipari told Sporting News he wants the NBA Players Association to consider running a scouting combine for elite high school juniors who might be considering whether to advance directly into the draft following graduation. The NBPA already conducts its “Top 100 Camp” each June; Calipari believes refashioning that into a combine-style event, with players and their families presented instruction on how to manage such a move, would be a natural transition.
Calipari told Sporting News he wants the NBA Players Association to consider running a scouting combine for elite high school juniors who might be considering whether to advance directly into the draft following graduation. The NBPA already conducts its “Top 100 Camp” each June; Calipari believes refashioning that into a combine-style event, with players and their families presented instruction on how to manage such a move, would be a natural transition.
He pointed to the success of the NBA combine event at identifying draft prospects — “Not one player who didn’t get invited to the combine got drafted” — as evidence a similar event for elite high school players could be helpful.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said last week in response to the Rice Commission criticism of one-and-done players in college that the league is “ready to make that change.”
Calipari doesn’t know yet what form all of this will take, but he would like the NBA — if it moves toward encouraging players to enter the developmental G League out of high school instead of playing in college — to pay a reasonable signing bonus and to pledge to cover athletes’ college expenses should they decide to pursue a degree upon the completion of their playing careers.
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Bama Cat
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posted 07-17-2018 10:54 PM
Good luck. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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SCWC
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posted 07-18-2018 01:38 PM
Amen Bama. Cal does come up with some weird idea's from time to time, this is one of them.
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handycat
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posted 07-18-2018 02:14 PM
Makes no sense to me. Maybe Cal should go into politics when he retires.
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