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[QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 1075151, member: 127"]
I think that European players are considered professionals once they get paid for playing on their club teams so they are ineligible to play collegiate ball in the US.(Enes Kanter - Kentucky etc)  Their only option is to stay with their club team or the NBA when they lose their amateur status. European schools don't have high school basketball teams, they have independent sports club teams. Foreigners separate academics from education from the very beginning and we don't. I think that's the crux of the issue we don't really want to address.

" The rules now state that high school players will gain eligibility for draft selection one year after their high school graduation and they must also be at least 19 years old as of the end of the calendar year of the draft. Contrary to popular belief, they do [I]not[/I] necessarily have to have at least one year of college basketball (as some players have chosen to use that year to play professionally in Europe for example, such as [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Jennings']Brandon Jennings[/URL]) or the NBA's developmental league etc."
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