So if a prep student was a phenom and was able to pass college classes and MCAT by the time he or she was 17 but wasn't allowed to go to Med school until they were 19 you would deny them?
One year out of High School is an random age rule. There are already many cases (Lebron, Kobe, McGrady) were HS players have entered the league out of HS and preformed at a "doctorate" level.
The NBA wants the players to play a year in college because it is easier to get scouts to see them against better competition than attending High School events and to make them a National Name without investing and thing thus improving fan interest. It has nothing to do with if the kid is physically ready to play.
Ben Simmons playing at LSU didn't help him or improve his stock as he would have went #1 out of HS and did a year later. Why should he have to waste a year of earnings and risk a career injury if not for a random rule?
Why should they have to go to Med School at all, if they are good enough to be doctors? Med schools just gives them the ability to see their skill more easily and evaulate them in others ways. I'm sure there are some people out there that could be great doctors with just on the job training.
Its that way with almost any job out there. My job requires a 4 year Bachelor of Science degree or enough experience in a related field. I could have been trained to do the job without a degree just fine.
The NBA, like any company, can make rules about who they hire. Maybe when they allowed HS to go right to the NBA, they had a 25% success rate. Maybe they thought their success rate would be 50% if they required 1 year out of high school.
I'm not saying that the NBA shouldn't allow athletes to go straight from HS to the NBA. I'm arguing that that is their decision to make. If they changed their mind and allowed HS kids to go pro directly, I would have zero issues with it.
Why aren't we pissed about the NFL 3 year rule? I'm sure there are a handful of players who could make the jump straight to the NFL out of HS, or after 1 or 2 years of college, yet no one bats an eye at that rule.