NBA Draft

scholarship is truly enough to keep the athletes in school and ensure they get their degrees. Many athletes in Division I sports, primarily basketball and Football Bowl Subdivision college football see college as a stepping stone to either the NFL or the NBA. The NCAA tracks the graduation rates in these sports via the GSR, or Graduation Success Rate, which measures the amount of student-athletes that graduate within six years of enrollment.On October 25, 2014 the NCAA released their latest GSR…

The NBA is a prominent renowned sport across the globe being televised by all shapes and sizes from our smartphone, TV, and computer. Due to it’s access and it’s popularity around the world, we can witness the Golden State Warriors orchestrate their playmaking ability to create an open shot. However, the basketball world wasn’t alike back in their heydays acquiring a meager amount of deals in order to televise their games. In addition, having only 17 teams during the birth of the NBA. But, due…

In today’s economic system, money has played an enormous role in the National Basketball Association. Over the years, many team owners have debated if the the NBA should have a salary cap. Salary caps exist in most sport leagues and are one of several mechanisms that allow the billionaire team owners to collectively control and suppress the wages of the athletes. The National Basketball Association must continue to have a salary cap for many reasons such as talent distribution and competitive…

man drafted by an NBA team, the Boston Celtics. April 12, 1954 Minneapolis Lakers become the first team to win three consecutive Championships. October 30, 1954 The NBA introduces the 24-second clock. As a result the pace of the game quickens. April 9, 1959 Boston Celtics win the first of their 8 consecutive titles. January 25, 1960 Philadelphia's Wilt Chamberlain grabs a NBA record 55 rebounds. On March 2, 1962 Wilt Chamberlain Scores a NBA record 100 points. April 27, 1994 The NBA Agrees to…

Michael Jordan are both NBA legends acknowledged to ever play in the game, but both players hold contrasts and similarities in their basketball career. There are many people who believe LeBron will later be greater than Jordan. Since the age of eighteen, LeBron James is currently still putting in hard work in his legendary career. At the age of thirty, LeBron James has played twelve seasons, won two NBA championships with the Miami Heat, four MVP awards, and has five NBA final appearances.…

been forced to do something that you feel is unnecessary? The “One-and-Done” rule is a rule created by the National Basketball Association stating that a player is not aloud signing with the NBA until the age of 19. This means that the players must complete one year of college basketball before entering the draft. I, along with many others, believe that the “One-and-Done” rule should be abolished because it creates injury risk for players, it wastes the players time, and it has slowly ruined…

Lebron James had all eyes on him his entire basketball career since high school. This is a lot of pressure for a 15 year old player but not for Lebron James. When Lebron graduated high school, he went straight to the NBA draft where he was selected with the Number 1 pick in the NBA draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers. The irony of this? Lebron James was actually from Ohio. “James, 31, who was born in Akron and played for St. Vincent-St. Mary High School.” (Emily Bamforth) From the day Lebron was…

you turn 18 years old you can do tons of things such as voting, serving in the military and going to work so why should you not be able to play in the NBA. The one-and-done rule is just something that needs to be gotten rid of. There have been many players in the NBA that came out of high school to go into the draft and were very dominant in the NBA. Lebron James is a great example of somebody who was able to do this. When Lebron James came out of high school he was able to be a very prominent…

There are so many NBA players that were born in the state of Illinois, but somebody who really stood out was the star center of the Los Angeles Lakers, Anthony Davis. Anthony Marshon Davis Jr was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 11, 1993. Davis had two sisters, one being his twin and the other being the elder of both of them. Even though Davis was born in Chicago, he lived in a town a little outside the city in a neighborhood called Englewood with his two sisters. Being a young kid in Chicago,…

NBA Players Getting paid too much Are NBA players getting paid too much? Most people think that it is ridiculous for NBA players to get paid millions of dollars; especially when there are millions of people unemployed and/or living in poverty debts with other nations. Millions that we are paying to NBA players could go towards something that we are having trouble with like poverty and unemployment. NBA players are getting paid too much because NBA rookies start off with millions, most of NBA…