There are many things that the NBA can do with the One and Done Rule. The NBA’s one and done rule is a rule that the NBA implemented in 2006 to prevent players from declaring for the NBA draft straight out of high school. This rule is very important to the NBA and to players because it causes players to have to decide after high school where they want to go to school or if they want to play overseas. Today I am going to be talking about what Adam Silver is leaning towards and what he should do about this situation.
"We're conflicted, to be honest. We're outside of our cycle of collective bargaining right now, which is when we generally address an issue like that," he said. "But [NBPA executive director] Michele Roberts and I have also agreed there's no reason we shouldn't at least be discussing it right now.”(Silver) David Stern added this rule because having eight teen year old kids coming straight from high school into the NBA making four to five million dollars a year is a very scary thing. David felt like the kids that come straight out of high school into the…show more content… "They could do that. They could actually require the players to go to classes. Or they could get the players to agree that they stay in school, and ask for their scholarship money back if they didn't fulfill their promises. There's all kinds of things that, if a bunch of people got together and really wanted to do it, instead of talk about it …" (Stern) Another big reason that David Stern added this rule because it was occasionally hurting NBA teams to take these young players early because they have so much talent so the NBA team will pick them early in the first round, but since they hadn’t seen them play at a college or professional level it is kind of a 50-50 chance on whether the player will actually produce in the NBA or not. If the players are busts that means it wastes an NBA team’s draft pick which hurts that NBA
