Why in NBA games, players are announced by what college, high school they are from even though some went?
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Players are usually announced by their alma matas due to the popularity of college basketball. Like most other professional sports, players are drafted into the pros. To answer the question of why international players are announced by the country they are from is because technically international players are drafted from the national team they played for which is usually their country. (i.e. Yao Ming from China, Peja Stoyokavich from Serbia Montenegro). The last place they played before they became pro would be their alma mata (or what is announced). For example Dikembe Mutumbo is of African descent. However, he was recruited by Georgetown University, hence when his name was announced, he was named as a Georgetown player, not Dikembe Mutumbo from Africa.
78671
No, in fact there are a couple of players in the NFL that did not play in high school.  Even still, they do play other sports in high school and are raw athlete material.
73480
Rob Pelinka (formerly with the was a member of the University of Michigan squad.  He played with the Fab 5 (Webber, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Ray Jackson, and Jimmy King).  He played in both the '92 and '93 NCAA championship games against Duke, and North Carolina, respectively.\n\nPelinka actually had a pretty good shot and was a valuable bench member for the Wolverines.\n\nHe became a sports agent with the SFX agency, and his client base included Carlos Boozer.  Pelinka made national headlines for the way he (mis)handled Boozer's signing with the Jazz, prompting much ethical debate.\n\nHope this helps!  :)
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There's 60 picks in the draft.  About 40 of them will be college players, maybe 20 of them are in the tournament, with the others coming from teams that didn't make it.  The rest will be foriegn players.  A few may try out as unrestricted free agents as well.
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I haven't followed the NBA for many years for this very reason.\n\nWhile all professional sports seem to have their share of athletes who seem to only care about their statistics and how that translates into a paycheck, there seems to be a lot more of it in the NBA.
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All U.S. players are automatically eligible upon the end of their college eligibility. Through 2005, U.S. players were also allowed to declare eligibility for the draft at any time between high school graduation and the completion of college eligibility. International players could declare eligibility in the calendar year of their 18th birthday, or later.\n\nStarting with the 2006 NBA Draft, the eligibility rules have changed:\n\nAll players, regardless of nationality, must be at least 19 years old during the calendar year of the draft. \nA U.S. player must also be at least one year removed from the graduation of his high school class. \nThis age limit for draftees is part of the new collective bargaining agreement between the league and its players union.\n\nThe NBA has established two draft declaration dates. All players who wish to be drafted, and are not automatically eligible, must declare their eligibility on or before the first declaration date. Following this, the NBA runs several pre-draft camps for prospective draftees to allow them to show their skills to the league's teams, which may also audition players individually. A player may withdraw his name from consideration from the draft at any time before the final declaration date, one week before the draft. Players do not lose their college eligibility by declaring for the draft on the initial date, unless they have, in any previous year, declared and withdrawn from the draft; however, if they stay in the draft at the final declaration date, they lose further college eligibility, whether or not they are drafted. Also, signing with an agent automatically ends a player's college eligibility. Underclassmen may withdraw from the draft only once\n\nWhen a player is selected in the first round of the draft, the team that selected him is required to sign him to at least a one-year contract. Players selected in the second round are "owned" by the team for three years, but the teams are not required to sign them.
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I take offense to you accusing being picked because you are black.  Why are you so down on non black race?  I play basketball and we pick teams before we play.  Who we choose to pick first is who we think has the better game.  If you don't like basketball you shouldn't be there.  I have never heard anyone complain of being picked first whether they are black, brown, green or red.  Thumbs down
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jon wallace, played in the NBA for raptors and Knicks for a while too\n\ngreat college player
361177
There are many differences between NBA, NCAA, and Ny High School Basketball rules. First of which is length and division of games. NBA and High School divide the game into quarters, while NCAA has only halves. Eligibility is different between all three and is way to complex to describe here. As far as the simple flow of the game, the NBA has some complex rules regarding zone defense that does not apply to NCAA and High School. In short there are differences in number of timeouts, number of fouls, where three point line is, and where the ball may be inbounded after stops in play. There may sometimes be different interpretations of rules, however a walk is a walk, a foul is a foul, and cussing out the referee will get you a technical nearly everyy time.
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Simple. A new conference was formed no more than 10 years ago. This made the automatic bid number jump from 33 to 34. They decided to keep this and number have a play-in. In a way, this game doesn't even matter, since they are playing for a number 16 seed. The number 16 has never beat a #1 in the history of the tournament. They let the play-in game happen just to give more schools a chance, drawling larger national attention. And keeping more dreams alive.
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The media is trying to make a story.  If the media did not bring this up, no one would have noticed.  The player said there was nothing wrong with what Knight did.  The players parents said that Knight did nothing wrong, and the school agreed.  These kids have to learn some respect and if one of the best College Basketball coaches ever is trying to coach you, you have to look at him.  Bobby Knight just taught that kid a very important life lesson that will go further than basketball.
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the recieving team is given a list of players which they can choose from. they can name this player at a later time. this is used when a team wants a little longer to scout the different players.
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The first to go directly to the NBA from high school are Bill Willoughby and Darryl Dawkins in 1975 who both played in the "NBA" during the 1975-76 season.   \n\nMoses Malone was the first high schooler to play "professional baskeball" but his first "NBA" season season was played during the 1976-1977 season, a year after than both Willoughby and Dawkins had played in the NBA.
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I don't know about draft picks but I've believed that many NBA games are fixed for quite some time now and this year's playoffs are a good example.  The Lakers had no business taking the Suns to 7 just as the Cavs shouldn't have taken the Pistons to 7 (Don't get me wrong, I love the Cavs, but no talent outside of the King).  Who is on those teams?  Arguably the most engaging personality off the court (Kobe) and the most exciting player to watch on the court (LeBron).  those two guys = ratings = higher revenues for the NBA
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Yeah I do. \nThe good old days were when the kids went to college -- NCAA's March Madness was thrilling when there was talent in the college game and the players learned fundamentals before going pro. \n\nWhile I'll agree that the idea of "college athlete" is a sham, the heyday was when good players played at least three years if not four. Magic at Michigan, Walton at UCLA, Jordan at North Carolina ... geez, I can still remember watching James Worthy play in college, it was a treat. \n\nThen the draft for the NBA was less of a crap shoot and a hope for fulfilled talent, the newer players were better known and it took less time to mature.
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HELL NO. OK LET ME EXPLAINE THIS. The 2 best players for collage last year in my opinion were Andrew Bogut and H. Warrick (i spelled that wrong probably) They both got drafted and they are ranked below the top 100. If ne1 remembers in collage warrick did these unhuman dunks over the defense, and bogut was just amazing. When u enter the NBA your opponents are unbelievably tall and skilled. Ussing some of the NBA's best players the US team had a hard time getting third place. If the best collage players in the US are ranked below the top 100 then there are 100 other players that deserve it more (to play at the olympics) You have to realize that collage bball players expect that the other team has 1 to 5 good players, they never expect that the whole team is that good. Also most of the NBA teams have players ranked below them and they still have a hard time going against them. If you put them against an olympic team thats like going against  A team that has 15 players as good as shawn marion or Iverson or Billups or whoever you favorite player is. They never expect what is coming and are taken by suprise.  If u did not understand that read it again cause it took me a long time to type this and I know Im right (if im wrong then give me 1 player that was ranked top 35 as a rookie)
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Typically there are no try-outs for NBA teams.  Most often, a player obtains an agent and declares himself eligible for the draft.  The teams will have workouts and scrimmages to watch the players in action.  \nYou can ask them for more details via email here:\nhttp://www.nba.com/email_us/