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[QUOTE="SBU72, post: 258471, member: 741"]
read long ago that kids left early to get to free agency earlier.  It use to be that it wasn't necessarily the first contract money that kids were looking towards but the second/free agent contract.  I have maintained for years that the NBA should change their rules about first contract.  (if they haven't already).  It use to be that the first contract was for 4 or 5 years.  Something like that.  After which a player became a free agent where the real money is made.  If the NBA would lengthen the first contract to 7 or 8 years then subtract a year for every year of developement (ie college) a kid had,it would negate some of the rush to being pro.  A freshmen gets a 7 year contract.  A soph a 6 yr, jr 5 year and sr a 4 yr.   Also part of the problem in the NBA is that that small market teams who get the high draft picks would get the kids young and un-developed. They would spend millions to develop the kids only to see them leave at the first opportuinty of free agency.  Extending the first contrat would give these teams a chance to recoup their development costs.  IF the first contract are now 7 to 10 years long, then this all makes no sense, so forget I said anything.
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