When it comes to the one-and-done rule, the NBA has been as fickle as your significant other trying to decide where they want to go for dinner. Tacos? Barbeque? Lower the draft eligibility age to 18? I dunno. You pick.
Just hours after Shams Charania reported on the impending doom of the one-and-done rule, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski dropped a bomb of his own, claiming negotiations on the subject are far from their final stages. In fact, they’re stalled.
While lowering the 19-and-over draft age will be a significant part of the NBA/NBPA Collective Bargaining discussions, sources tell ESPN nothing has advanced on elimination of the “One-and-Done” rule.