The National Basketball Association season is coming back in a couple of days, so I wanted to bring up a topic that has been big around the NBA. Should the NBA allow players to go from high school to the NBA? The One and Done rule, where a player must be 19 years old or 1 year removed from college, rule was established in 2005-2006 NBA season. For many NBA players, their athletic ability is their family's meal ticket. A lot of players don’t grow up as fortunate as others, and their family struggles to pay the bills. Being able to take care of their mom and dad immediately after high school is a huge burden off their backs. If other high school graduates are offered that opportunity with other jobs, why not NBA players? Ever since the NBA put in the One and Done rule, eight of the last 11 No. 1 overall picks in the NBA draft have been college freshmen. People say that skipping college would cause the athletes to miss out on a important learning stage in life. Before the rule was establish these are some players who made the jump, Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, and Tracy McGrady. With players making the jump straight to the NBA, they miss out on learning the more advanced learning of subjects such as Math, ELA, or Science. In addition, if a player were to get injured, the player doesn’t have a education to fall back on. The NBA has been talking about changing the rule as soon as 2020. Lebron James is for the NBA to change the rule back so he has the chance to play with his son in the NBA. So all in all, I’m for the NBA to change the rule back because players have families to feed and most of the time don’t have a year to waste in college, and potentially get hurt. That’s my opinion, what’s yours?
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