Duke Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski thinks that one-and-done players should be a thing of the past.
Mike Krzyzewski said some interesting things during ACC media day, and one of the topics was players coming straight out of high school to the NBA. The Duke Blue Devils coach was quite clear about his point of view.
Here is what Coach K said to ESPNU.
"“One-and-done should be done with. Kids should be allowed to go out of high school, and the NBA should be… 26 of the 30 teams now have G-League affiliates. They can handle that, and it’s time for all of us: high school, AAU, college and NBA to work together and figure this thing out and what’s best for the kids and their families.”"
You can check out the full clip of it below.
"Kids should be allowed to go to the NBA out of high school." - Coach K#ACCMediaDay pic.twitter.com/C9vwePzsah
— ESPNU (@ESPNU) October 25, 2017
North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams was less declarative about the situation, and the coaches shied away from the subject of paying money for players to attend school. Jim Boeheim brought it up tentatively, but it is tough to have credibility if you’ve run a program that has faced question marks in the past. Williams and Boeheim both fall into that camp at this time.
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The NBA will most likely take a look at this during the next collective bargaining agreement. The problem, as always, lies in the money. The NCAA will put exceeding pressure on the NBA to delay making this decision because they are making millions off of these college athletes every season. It’s definitely a complicated issue, and it is tough to know if anything will happen in the next few years.
Krzyzewski was behind Kentucky Wildcats head coach John Calipari for a while when it came to recruiting one-and-done players, but Duke has caught up. Jabari Parker, Jahlil Okafor and Jayson Tatum are just a few players who come to mind, and you can bet that the Blue Devils will continue taking advantage of the rules as they currently stand. However, let’s give Krzyzewski credit for standing up against a law that is pretty outdated at this point.