Mar.13 at 4:09 pm

Tom says:
I actually think the age limit is a good thing in terms of keeping the quality of players that come into the league at a certain standard, but from the players point of view its a tough pill to swallow.

Mar.13 at 4:12 pm

Kevin says:
i think its a positive thing too..

Mar.13 at 4:17 pm

The Second Coming says:
ugh. go home stern. the current three MVP candidates are all direct from high-school

Mar.13 at 4:22 pm

Joe B says:
And the player leading his team on its current 20-game winning streak is straight out of high school as well.
Stern needs give it a rest.

Mar.13 at 4:33 pm

TADOne says:
He had a hard time passing the first one, I seriously doubt it will pass a second time.

Mar.13 at 4:39 pm

BETCATS says:
?!.;:’”,/

Mar.13 at 4:41 pm

Ryan Jones says:
F*ck it. Let’s make it 35.

Mar.13 at 4:47 pm

TADOne says:
But that means you won’t make the cut Ryan.

Mar.13 at 4:48 pm

reggie35 says:
Some of those answers were certainly eye opening particulary the fact that India currently gets 2 games a week on tv! Here in the UK we only get 1 !!!

Mar.13 at 4:51 pm

BETCATS says:
India has 2000X the people reggie, maybe that is why.

Mar.13 at 5:03 pm

Jim Mora says:
kwame brown

Mar.13 at 5:14 pm

albie1kenobi says:
for my english class final paper (a couple years back), i chose the topic of nba minimum age to argue about. i don’t remember what i wrote, but i played Queen’s “we are the champion” after i finished the paper because it was my last class in college.

Mar.13 at 5:43 pm

Russ Bengtson says:
I want a younger commissioner.

Mar.13 at 6:28 pm

balogna sammich says:
Stern: Let’s bump it up to 65.. I think me and Bill Russel could be the games leading scorers

Mar.13 at 6:30 pm

balogna sammich says:
Stern:I’m sorry Greg Oden and Kevin Durant but go back to college!

Mar.13 at 6:57 pm

maio says:
Who cares if it’s unconstitutional if it makes the rich richer?

Mar.13 at 7:14 pm

tealish says:
@ The Second Coming: Pretty sure Chris Paul played for Wake Forest. Maybe you didn’t watch March Madness that year, because I KNOW you did not just exclude CP3 from the MVP discussion.

Mar.13 at 7:39 pm

Jukai says:
I think it would make both the NCAAs and the NBA better. Honestly, it would. However, it’s unfair to those players who want to go into the NBA. What if Durant was forced to go to college a second year and tore all his nerves in his right leg? There goes 100 million.

Mar.13 at 11:31 pm

The Illest says:
yeah the top three MVP candidates all came from HS. Kwame Brown, Jonathan Bender and D-Miles.

Mar.14 at 12:04 am

Nad says:
Im sorry, but all the mvp candidates that are out of high school have been around for a few years now, they’re all older than 20, and only one of them had an “impact” immidiately after coming into the league (Bron), so college might be a good idea for all these young guns. It’ll only make the NCAA better with teams sticking with the same group for more than one year… The age limit for the draft should be 19 tho, these guys wont want to lose to much time in college, time is money!

Mar.14 at 2:15 am

Russ Bengtson says:
It’s not fair to the players to impose an age limit. What, so they can go make a college rich? It’s easy to talk about all the guys who weren’t ready right out of high school (and a lot of people do), but what about all the countless guys who aren’t ready after college? Why should LeBron and Dwight Howard have gone to college when it was OBVIOUS they didn’t need it? Why shouldn’t Tracy, Jermaine, Kobe, Al Harrington, etc., have been able to learn to play in the NBA while PLAYING IN THE NBA? It didn’t seem to hurt any of them. If you’re old enough to go to war, you’re old enough to play in the NBA. Period. I’ll oppose age limits until the day I die.

Mar.14 at 2:48 am

The Notorious King says:
GERALD GREEN?
KWAME BROWN?
SEBASTIAN TELFAIR?

Mar.14 at 2:53 am

lillemomoney says:
@ the illest…Bender, Kwame and D-Miles, may have not become superstars, but Im pretty sure their families and close friends are living better lives now…Not to mention that gives the next generation of said families an EXTREAMLY better chance of being successful.

Mar.14 at 3:06 am

lillemomoney says:
The REAL tragedy is when they don’t get drafted at all, AND can’t go to school. So why isnt the NCAA the true ‘bad guys’ in this equation? If they change that rule, then ‘no child is left behind’:P
Oh,as for Gerald Green and Telfair: BOTH, got paid, accomplished their goals of reaching the League, AND, could still play overseas for large $’s where they’d get even MORE life experience than they woulda getting exploited in College! wow, what a tragedy…

Mar.14 at 5:01 am

Russ Bengtson says:
Not to mention Sebastian is still playing, and playing fairly well. He’s gonna make it. How about all of the kids who went to college, made money for the school, never got an education AND never made the NBA? Would it have been better for Kwame if he went to school, flamed out there, and missed out on NBA millions? J.R. Smith?

Mar.14 at 5:07 am

Russ Bengtson says:
Also, what about all the countless kids Bob Huggins coached at Cincinnati, NONE of whom left with degrees? It worked out OK for Nick Van Exel and Corie Blount, but what about Steve Logan and Dontonio Wingfield (among many, MANY others). What about the endless list of blue-chip prospects thant have blown out a knee and never recovered? It’s punishing the kids because teams insist on drafting them so high.

Mar.14 at 5:41 am

James says:
One and only thought on this issue: shouldn’t this all be directed at the owners? the players don’t draft themselves.

Mar.14 at 6:09 am

Slobodan Chutzpah says:
I think Russ’ point about kids being old enough to be sent to war vs. playing in the NBA is a valid one. What should be altered first is the age limit for the armed forces though… I think the reason Stern is pushing for this is his pathological obsession with the league’s image: he thinks bringing in older players will help fix it.

Mar.14 at 6:22 am

OneShot says:
Not too familiar with the draft, but how can they justify denying some a place at college if they delcare but aren’t drafted?

Mar.14 at 9:47 am

Steve says:
Its true that the best players in the league are straight out of high school, but aside from Lebron, what did any of them do their first year…not much. It could have been better spent in College. They would still be the best players in the NBA today, but they would have those terrible first couple of years on record.

Mar.14 at 9:51 am

Steve says:
@Russ…better for Kwame no…better for the NBA, yes. The NBA should be filled will the best talent worldwide, and when kids are being signed based on hype and never pan out then its an issue. I’m probably standing up for the owners too much, but as an owner I would like to see the product I’m purchasing play against real talent (college) instead of kids (high school).

Mar.14 at 10:06 am

Ryan Jones says:
There’s no reason for this debate to still exist. Stern made a “business” decision that smacks of racism, he knows it, and he doesn’t care. His job is to keep the owners rich, and he’s doing it. It’s incredibly unfair, the League knows it, and couldn’t care less. End of story.
Also, Notorious King, I assume you haven’t posted in 7 or 8 hours because you’ve spent the entire time compiling a list of all the three- and four-year college players who’ve been drafted and gone on to do jack sh*t in the NBA. You f*cking idiot.