Celtics.com
WALTHAM, Mass. – Thon Maker is looking to do what no basketball player has done in more than a decade: Make the leap straight from high school basketball to the NBA.
During the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was commonplace for a player to make the direct jump, but in 2006 the league ruled that a player must be at least 19 years old and one year removed from high school in order to declare for the Draft.
That rule prompted many of today’s young prospects to go to college for a quick “one-and-done” collegiate stint before departing for the NBA, but Maker will not have to take that approach.