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Message: [QUOTE="Madbiker, post: 1365464, member: 312"] Always like reading your posts and what you have to say. But disagree with you here. The NBA changed the way it operates. Guys like Jordan, Shaq and Duncan stayed in college because NBA GM's were not offering them huge guaranteed contracts to come out after a year or 2. The NBA of that era wanted college to be the developmental system and the PR incubator of its future stars. They weren't all competing with each other to pull undeveloped kids out after a year of college or direct from high school. True that nobody is "forcing" today's kids to leave college. But if NBA teams are going to offer multi-year multi-million dollar guaranteed contracts to kids after their freshman year... they are heavily incentivising them to leave college. NBA teams were not doing that 25 years ago so the kids stayed in college for 3-4 years. [/QUOTE]