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Sports Central January 28, 2013 Corrie Trouw |
(Back)Packing it In Eight years ago, the NBA instituted the rule requiring players to be one year removed from the graduation of their high school class to be draft-eligible. This rule has greatly shaped college basketball's place for everyone involved. |
Sports Central June 29, 2005 Doug Graham |
NBA Draft a Mess, With Steals a Plenty There is no consensus in assessing draft day |
Sports Central May 4, 2011 Ross Lancaster |
The Problems of One-and-Done The deadline for underclassmen to pull out of the NBA draft is within the next week, on May 8. After its passage, coaches and fans will know, with the exception of some late-signing recruits and summer transfers, just exactly what their teams will look like next year. |
Sports Illustrated April 24, 2001 Seth Davis |
A Loan At The Top Spring is supposed to be the season of renewal, but it has been a bleak few weeks for the basketball program at Arizona, where four nonsenior starters from the NCAA finalist Wildcats have declared themselves eligible for the June 27 NBA draft... |
Sports Illustrated June 6, 2001 Frank Deford |
Athletics 101 A change in eligibility rules is long overdue if we want to encourage talented athletes to stay in school... |
Sports Illustrated June 19, 2002 Seth Davis |
Dunleavy belongs in NBA With Mike Dunleavy's announced decision to stay in the NBA Draft, CNNSI.com chatted with Sports Illustrated college basketball writer Seth Davis about the impact Dunleavy might make in the NBA and what he leaves behind at Duke. |
Salon.com May 23, 2001 Allen Barra |
Vince Carter gets an F The NBA, which cares about higher education only as a source of player development, hypocritically praises the Toronto Raptors star's graduation side trip... |
Sports Central April 20, 2015 Jean Neuberger |
One-Year Wonders Equals Long-Term Success The "one and done" theory in college basketball works for programs that do it. |
Sports Central November 16, 2010 Corrie Trouw |
Square Pegs and Round Holes College basketball is now a glorified AAU league. Core players flow in and out of programs so quickly that traditional team building is virtually impossible. |
Sports Central June 3, 2005 Eric Williams |
Let's Make a Deal, Commissioner Stern Message to Mr. Stern: The NBA is on the verge of a lockout. Get a deal done now. There is too much to lose and not nearly enough to gain if there is no NBA next year. Just ask your favorite NHL player. |
Sports Illustrated March 27, 2002 Rick Reilly |
Missing Persons March Madness winds up this week after a month of showcasing about half of the best college-age players. The other half are holding down folding chairs in the NBA and trying to remember if they're in Cleveland or Memphis... |
Sports Illustrated June 18, 2002 Ian Thomsen |
Danger: Draft Ahead With few college seniors of interest, this year's NBA lottery has higher risks than usual. |
Sports Central August 15, 2014 Ross Lancaster |
Basketball Needs to Quit Acting Like Soccer Basketball is really the only inherently North American sport that can rival soccer from both an accessibility and a cultural standpoint. |
Sports Illustrated November 8, 2000 |
Ready for tipoff Our annual season-preview journeys for the mag are always a blast, and for all sorts of reasons. Arizona is king of my preseason college basketball top 20... |
AskMen.com Phil Helm |
Top 10 NBA Colleges The schools listed here have proven that they are the masters at creating NBA players. Read on for the line-up. |
Sports Central September 2, 2004 Jonathan Lowe |
Don't Diss the Effort Seriously, is a bronze that bad? Yes, I know. Basketball is a U.S. sport, born and bred. The game's most talented players still grow up here. Plus, the coach just became the only one to ever win both the NCAA and NBA championships. |
Sports Central August 11, 2005 Alan Rubenstein |
NBA Draft Changes NCAA Landscape Who enters their name into the NBA draft, who withdraws, and which players return or leave can have an impact on the college basketball landscape for the following two to three years. |
Sports Illustrated June 25, 2002 Alexander Wolff |
Puttering along State of American hoops leads NBA teams to look overseas. |
Sports Illustrated November 15, 2000 Frank Deford |
NBA recount Reversal of fortune harms league's image... |
AskMen.com Mark Simmons |
Yao Ming: Bridging The NBA & The World The top pick in the NBA amateur draft on June 26, 2002, by the Houston Rockets, China's Yao Ming stands to elevate the game to a new level for various reasons. |
Sports Central August 16, 2004 William Geoghegan |
The Not-Quite-Dream Team The U.S. Men's Basketball Team still hasn't adapted to the international game. They still try to dictate tempo, try to play an individual game, and try to overwhelm teams with their talent. It's just not working quite so well anymore. |
Sports Central May 29, 2009 Bobby Campbell |
NBA Draft: Who Goes Where? Who Cares? When I look at the NBA, I see everything that is wrong in professional sports today. |
Sports Illustrated November 27, 2000 Seth Davis |
My (gulp) favorite player Eugene Edgerson is my favorite college basketball player... |
Sports Central September 8, 2006 Diane M. Grassi |
Globalization Defeating the American Athlete The increase of insourcing foreign players in the U.S. may result in sacrificing the best American athletes. |
Sports Central January 28, 2015 Ross Lancaster |
How to Fix College Basketball There are some people who will tell you that complaints about the state of college basketball are nothing new. And to an extent, that's true. However, the sport has reached what has to be a tipping point. |
Sports Central January 4, 2012 Louie Centanni |
Why the 66-Game NBA Season Should Stay Between playing more frequently, forcing stars to show effort nightly, and reintroducing the concept of team basketball, the 66-game NBA season seems to be a great experiment - one that should become the norm for years to come. |
Sports Central June 26, 2014 Ross Lancaster |
2014 NBA Draft Studs and Duds Coming into the most recent college basketball season, the 2014 NBA Draft promised to be one of the most talent-filled in recent memory. |
Salon.com June 20, 2000 Eric Boehlert |
NBA in disarray Come back, Mr. Jordan: The NBA Finals are in danger of going down as the lowest-rated playoffs since 1981, while couch potatoes turn off college games, too. What's wrong with hoops? |
Sports Illustrated January 24, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Let's give Stanford its due As a former (recovering?) East Coast basketball writer myself, I know there's a lot of ignorance about West Coast basketball. But some of the statements made about Stanford lately have been as unintentionally hilarious as Digger Phelps... |
Sports Central October 19, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
How the Players Can Win the NBA Lockout The NBA players need to leverage their talent to win the lockout. |
Sports Central December 26, 2006 Alvin Chang |
The Fight Wasn't a Big Deal -- For the NBA The fight at Madison Square Garden isn't that big of a deal - at least in the NBA. |
Sports Central March 26, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
The Real Sweet 16 Here is the Real Sweet 16: 16 reasons to watch the NBA stretch run over the round of 16. |
Sports Central February 9, 2011 Matt Thomas |
Individuals Who Have Shaped College Hoops Beyond topical changes to the game, some individuals have been so dominant that they themselves necessitated rules changes that still impact the college and pro games alike. |
Sports Central March 21, 2004 Adam Russell |
Big Dreams For Small-Town Kid Bucky Jacobsen is spending this spring in Arizona with the Seattle Mariners. Not only is Jacobsen getting his first taste of what big league baseball is all about, but he's getting to do it with his favorite team. |
Sports Illustrated May 15, 2001 Seth Davis |
A Risk Worth Taking For many high school and college basketball stars, the decision to go pro early is a sound one... |
PC Magazine January 18, 2006 Matthew D. Sarrel |
Hoop Dreams Cactus League Professional Basketball 7... NBA 06... NBA 2K6... NBA Live 06... NCAA 06 March Madness... |
Sports Central April 18, 2005 Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: Jermaine's Disdain Because the majority of NBA players are African-American, any rule the league adapts, including an age limit, will inherently affect more black people than white, a fact that has nothing to do with race. |
Sports Illustrated January 10, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Yet another obstacle for Arizona You don't have to be an Arizona supporter to hope that, for the Wildcats' sake, they're able to simply play basketball for the rest of the season. I spent most of last week in Tucson, and from talking to the players and coaches, the past month has been excruciating... |
Sports Illustrated January 3, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Return of the Magic Eight I present my second annual Magic Eight, the teams from which I absolutely, positively guarantee the national champion of men's college basketball will emerge... |
Sports Central March 28, 2007 Aaron Miller |
While You Were Mad Interest in the NCAA tournament makes it difficult to follow your favorite NBA team. |
Sports Central December 13, 2004 Piet Van Leer |
Why College Hoops is Better Than Pro Hoops Why is college basketball so much better than the NBA? Here are ten reasons to dribble and dunk on. |
Sports Central January 13, 2006 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
NBA, You Call This a Sport? (Part 2) Discontent with the NBA. |
Sports Illustrated April 17, 2001 Marty Burns |
Changing the rules Give NBA credit for trying to fix its problems... |
Sports Central March 29, 2006 Isaac Miller |
NBA Role Players to Watch Because teams tend to build around superstar, there's a lot of talent hidden in the NBA -- like these five, some of the best players you've never heard of. |
Sports Central September 30, 2011 Andrew Jones |
2011-12 College Basketball Preview As the NBA lockout makes little progress and rumors about players heading overseas abound, college basketball awaits, ready to play because you can't get locked out when you don't make any money. |
Sports Central August 19, 2005 Eric Williams |
The Never-Ending NBA Season The NBA summer leagues provide us with the ultimate NBA reality drama: recent NBA draft picks and NBA-wannabees trying to impress fans and coaches while fighting for a job in the NBA. |
Sports Central July 21, 2011 Jonathan Lowe |
NBA Lockout: The Double-Edged Sword The heat across the Upper Midwest these last couple of days couldn't be any more different than the mood in the world of the NBA. |
Sports Illustrated August 28, 2001 Alexander Wolff |
A truly global game The rest of the world nearly has caught up to the U.S. in basketball... |
Salon.com February 14, 2001 Allen Barra |
For God's sake, save the children! The NBA is worrying publicly about "kids" forsaking their schooling to turn pro, but its real problem is that the NCAA is no longer presenting it with famous rookies for free... |
Sports Illustrated November 21, 2001 Grant Wahl |
What's going on in Maui? Let's wait until March before we call my preseason college basketball rankings a joke. |