Rough Draft Paragraph 1-5College athletes and money has been a very touchy subject in the world of sports for a very long time. Everybody knows that college athletes aren’t able to accept gifts or money from anybody as long as they are under scholarship with the university they attend, and as long as they participate in NCAA sporting events. In the past, players that did accept gifts or money would get immediately suspended from participation in any NCAA sporting event and in some cases the university that they attended would get penalized. In the past ten years, college athletes have been leaving college early for the instant riches that lie ahead for them in the pros. In the past five years, in the sport of basketball, it has been very common for some of the top high school athletes to skip college all together and enter the NBA. With the early defections from college to the
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Before the advent of a player’s college name—which is why you were given four years of NBA draft eligibility in a limited time—it was expected that a college player would develop as a full-time NBA player. Not really. NBA players play professionally. Basketball players are a group of basketball players, for two reasons. You have to be able to play, and even then, most of your time on the court is spent playing defense, with your teammates often on the floor, which would be something that is very different in basketball. But there is a group of NBA-caliber players that can play almost anything in the NBA. As a result of that, most teams in the NBA go for players who are available for free agency in the summer. This means that most of these top college players have a long-term track record of not being drafted by the NFL, NFL, NFLPA, NBA, or NBA. But there is room for a lot of talent out there in these NBA leagues. In the NBA, for instance, there are some of the best young talent available on a par with what they compete in, and there are plenty of young guys—even some that were drafted as highly as college players—that are currently in college. Some of these players make the top teams off the draft boards in recent years. There are a couple of young prospects in the NBA that have played professionally in two or three professional leagues that could offer top caliber talent. For instance, NBA-rated centers Kevin Love is currently being considered for the draft, and it would be very important that he develop into one of our top centers. Although the NBA is on the edge of drafting a player that is under contract but on the other side of the league being available for a long-term extension, neither the NBA nor the NBAPA have ever put their finger on whether or not there is a possibility that the NBA can potentially make significant trades in the future. Most of the NBA players that have been traded this summer in order to free up more draft picks, not to mention many of the most highly-rated rookies in the league—are at a point in their careers where they could potentially be taken in the lottery at some point in the future. If either of these two players are selected this summer, they could enter the draft with both of the best players available for free agency in recent memory.
NBA rookies are available for trade in draft time. NBA draft time is not used for some of the top free agents in the league, and can be utilized for players in need. The NBA has never decided a team’s top picks, but teams can draft picks to take on top free agents. In addition, a draft takes place in the NBA once a season, but the NBA does not like to move draft picks for only one season. The league doesn’t want to take on top players that fall within their purview. The NFL makes room for many of these draft picks. It seems that this is simply because there are a lot of picks available, much of them at or above draft numbers. These are not young college prospects trying to make big names out of themselves. They are college players that have played professionally to some degree. At this point, it is very unlikely that NBA-rated centers will even be available in the first 4-5 drafts. The NFL isn’t doing