The rise of older European players in collegiate basketball has created an interesting draft eligibility question for the league to figure out, writes The Athletic’s Mike Vorkunov. Vorkunov writes that a small section of said international NCAA players were older than 22 years old, and therefore automatically eligible for the draft. This led to the question of what would happen should one of those players be selected in the draft but still wish to play in college, which may be close to being considered by the NBA a professional sport, due to recent rulings about player payments from programs. Vorkunov notes that according to the CBA, a league is professional if it pays players beyond living expenses, which is soon to be the case with the NCAA. “Playing intercollegiate basketball will be considered under the provisions of Article X, Section 5 of the CBA to be signing a player contract with a non-NBA professional basketball team,” the league said in a memo before the draft. This would, by some interpretations,Read More
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