Thread: price tag for wooing underclassmen?
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Old 03-20-2007, 11:57 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Re: price tag for wooing underclassmen?
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Originally Posted by JuniorNoboa
b) Having star freshmen in the NCAA provides free advertising for the NBA. How many people seriously knew Durant last year? Durant would have been a top pick, but he would not be as marketable as he is today. His playing one year at the NCAA made him much more marketable.. just like say Carmelo Anthony.
This is the most important point. The NBA gets advertising from the NCAA games and those players get hyped without the NBA having to do anything. The NBA now tries to make sure those NCAA players do nothing to upset their eligibilty until they declare. Any NBA person is allowed to talk to any college player as soon as they offical declare but not before hand. That is the NBA respecting and working with a simple NCAA rule.
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