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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 259323, member: 652"]
No chance this rule gets changed unless Stern and the owners give the NBAPA something major. The 1 year out of high school rule is ridiculous the fact that you can't go directly from HS into NBA is a joke. If a HS player wanted to sue I bet the NBA could lose an antitrust lawsuit. The NBA doesn't have antitrust exemption that MLB does thus, if a kid sued claiming the NBA was restricting trade  the lawsuit could be subject to an Sherman Antitrust lawsuit. Spencer Haywood sued in the NBA in 1971 and won. Maurice Clarett sued the NFL and won in 2nd circuit federal district court before the Court of Appeals overturned it. The NFL rule has to do with the fact you need a more mature body to deal with the physicality of football, but HS basketball players should be to go the NBA, just like MLB and NHL prospects. The best remedy would for the NBA to negotiate a deal with the NBAPA similar to the rule in MLB, which would be something like this. You can go directly from HS to the NBA, but if you elect to go to college you must stay in college in for 2 years. That way you would get your Kobe's, LeBron's, Garnett's going to straight to the NBA, but the Kyrie Irving's, Anthony Davis', Michael Kidd-Gilchrist would probably be in college for 2 years, and the college game would improve.
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