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[QUOTE="Funafuti, post: 120977, member: 36305"]It's probably true that, except for a few phenoms, players benefit from additional years playing college basketball or would benefit from a solid professional minor league system. They would be more mature mentally and physically and have greater playing experience if they entered the NBA at 21 or 22 as opposed to 18 or 19. I just think it should be up to the individual teams do decide for themselves whether they value youthful raw talent over more seasoned players. If you run a team and are of the opinion that 18- and 19-years-olds are not ready for the NBA, then don't draft them. Build your team around older players. Or draft them but have a development strategy in place. Some GMs/owners will make bad choices, some will make good choices. Someone might draft another Kwame Brown #1 for no apparent reason, but I don't think that justifies having a rule in place prohibiting the employment of all 18-year-olds.[/QUOTE]

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