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On Basketball: It's time to change the NBA draft rules

The NBA says it is seeking an answer to the one-and-done issue, and that doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has acknowledged for years that the current plan — where players have to be 19 years old and a year out of high school before reaching the league — doesn't work. The NBA has talked about raising the minimum age to 20. The players have talked about lowering the minimum age to 18.

"Some kids think they're ready when they're really not, but still have aspirations to play professional basketball your whole life," said Phoenix star guard Devin Booker, a one-and-done collegian at Kentucky who doesn't seem too far away from joining the ranks of the NBA elite.