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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 1254274, member: 1969"] This factor however cannot really explain the decline in basketball from about 2005 to now. Early entries are not some new phenomenon. They exploded around 2000, and have not dramatically increased since the 2001 draft. [url]http://www.nba.com/news/lottery02_earlyentry_history.html[/url] [IMG]http://www.nba.com/images/reddot.gif[/IMG] [B]2001 NBA DRAFT EARLY ENTRY CANDIDATES Player[/B] [B]School/Country[/B] [B]Year/DOB[/B] [B]Drafted By (Round/#)[/B] Gilbert Arenas Arizona Sophomore Golden State (2nd/31) Brandon Armstrong Pepperdine Junior Houston (1st/23) Malcolm Battles New Mexico Junior Not drafted Tavorris Bell Rhode Island Junior Not drafted Preston Bennett Grayson C.C. (Texas) Freshman Not drafted Keith Bogans Kentucky Sophomore WITHDREW Michael Bradley Villanova Junior Toronto (1st/17) Jamison Brewer Auburn Sophomore Indiana (2nd/41) Kedrick Brown Okaloosa-Walton C.C. (Florida) Sophomore Boston (1st/11) Kwame Brown Glynn Academy H.S. (Ga.) H.S. senior Washington (1st/1) SirValiant Brown George Washington Sophomore Not drafted Nick Burwell Orange Coast College (Calif.) Sophomore Not drafted Goran Cakic Radnicki (Yugoslavia) 1980 WITHDREW Tyson Chandler Dominguez H.S. (Calif.) H.S. senior LA Clippers (1st/2) Ousmane Cisse St. Jude Catholic H.S. (Ala.) H.S. senior Denver (2nd/47) Sam Clancy Southern California Junior WITHDREW Jason Collins Stanford R.S. Sophomore Houston (1st/18) Omar Cook St. John's Freshman Orlando (2nd/32) Eddy Curry Thornwood H.S. (Ill.) H.S. Senior Chicago (1st/4) Samuel Dalembert Seton Hall Sophomore Philadelphia (1st/26) Edwin "Greedy" Daniels Texas Christian Junior Not drafted Carlos Delfino Reggio Calabria (Italy) 1982 WITHDREW Jefferson de Souza Sobral Vasco da Gama (Brazil) 1980 WITHDREW Boris Diaw Pau Orthez (France) 1982 WITHDREW DeSagana Diop Oak Hill Academy (H.S.) (Va.) H.S. Senior Cleveland (1st/8) Patrick Doctor American Junior WITHDREW Corsley Edwards Central Connecticut Junior WITHDREW Denis Ershov Spartak (Russia) 1981 Not drafted Maurice Evans Texas Junior Not drafted Benjamin Eze Southern Idaho Freshman Not drafted Alton Ford Houston Freshman Phoenix (2nd/51) Antonis Fotsis Panathinaikos (Greece) 1981 Memphis (2nd/48) Joseph Forte North Carolina Sophomore Boston (1st/21) Jason Gardner Arizona Sophomore WITHDREW Pau Gasol .C. Barcelona (Spain) 1980 Atlanta (1st/3) Jerry Green Cal-Irvine Junior Not drafted Eddie Griffin Seton Hall Freshman New Jersey (1st/7) Rob Griffin Iowa Junior Not drafted Rashid Hardwick Eastern Oklahoma State Freshman Not drafted Trenton Hassell Austin Peay Junior Chicago (2nd/30) Kirk Haston Indiana Junior Charlotte (1st/16) Draper Housley Lee College (Texas) Sophomore Not drafted Steven Hunter DePaul Sophomore Orlando (1st/15) Vlado Ilievski Antalya (Turkey) 1980 WITHDREW Robertas Javtokas Lietuvos Rytas (Lithuania) 1980 San Antonio (2nd/56) Richard Jefferson Arizona Junior Houston (1st/13) Joe Johnson Arkansas Sophomore Boston (1st/10) Tony Key Centennial H.S. (Calif.) H.S. Senior Not drafted D.A. Layne Georgia Junior Not drafted Reo Logan Miami (Fla.) Freshman WITHDREW Raul Lopez Real Madrid (Spain) 1980 Utah (1st/24) Arvydas Macijauskas Lietuvos Rytas (Lithuania) 1980 WITHDREW Tito Maddox Fresno State Freshman WITHDREW Zach Marbury Rhode Island Junior Not drafted Jamario Moon Meridian C.C. (Miss.) Sophomore Not drafted Troy Murphy Notre Dame Junior Golden State (1st/14) Bostjan Nachbar Pivovarna Lasko (Slovenia) 1980 WITHDREW Lazaros Papadopoulos Iraklis (Greece) 1980 WITHDREW Tony Parker Paris Basket Racing (France) 1982 San Antonio (1st/28) Tayshaun Prince Kentucky Junior WITHDREW Vladimir Radmanovic FMP Zeleznik (Yugoslavia) 1980 Seattle (1st/12) Zach Randolph Michigan State Freshman Portland (1st/19th) Jason Richardson Michigan State Sophomore Golden State (1st/5) Kenny Satterfield Cincinnati Sophomore Dallas (2nd/54) Luis Scola Tau Ceramica (Spain) 1980 WITHDREW Mladen Sekularac FMP Zeleznik (Yugoslavia) 1981 WITHDREW Bobby Simmons DePaul Junior Seattle (2nd/42) Jawan Simpson Puget Sound Christian College Freshman WITHDREW Derick Singleton St. Paul's College (Va.) Junior WITHDREW Will Solomon Clemson Junior Memphis (2nd/33) Clifton Terry Kennedy-King College (Ill.) Sophomore Not drafted Gerald Wallace Alabama Freshman Sacramento (1st/25) Rodney White Charlotte Freshman Detroit (1st/9) Damien Wilkins North Carolina State Sophomore Not drafted Michael Wright Arizona Junior New York (2nd/39) So if one were to argue that college basketball has become markedly worse the last 10 years one would have to find another factor. That was my point -- people are putting the one and done as way too big a factor for the recent decline. There have to be other larger factors for the recent decline since 2005. [/QUOTE]

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