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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Age Restrictions of the Draft
Very cool paper discussing age restrictions of the draft:
At that time, the NBA required that players be four years removed from high school in order to partake in the NBA draft. The rule had not been collectively bargained. Spencer Haywood, a nineteen-year-old basketball star from an impoverished family, challenged the rule. He characterized it as an unreasonable restraint of trade. The court agreed with Haywood, finding that the age requirement constituted a per se illegal boycott. Central to the court’s decision was the inflexible nature and arbitrariness of the rule, for it failed to provide an exception for unique talent or financial circumstance. In other words, a blanket age floor to draft entry comprised illegal per se activity.
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