NBA players coming out early compared to college experience

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Source: sportstwo.com --- Saturday, August 10, 2013
Since Denny took over the Lillard thread, I figured a new thread that can talk about the metric of NBA players comping out early, to those that stay in College. https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/3...EntrytoNBA.pdf This study explains that the school experience is better for players that don't have "superstar talent"; but it also explains that the "mental maturity" is learned through college; with these young kids able to learn respect, humility and team philosophy. Here is a quote from this study.... Quote: The general pattern in the data would suggest that less- skilled players perform at a lower level when they enter the NBA earlier and are therefore helped by the 2006 age minimum. For these players, playing college basketball seems to be correlated with an improved level of performance that would lead to a higher earning potential, but this cannot be proven at a statistically significant level. For more-skilled players, the trends in the data seem to suggest that entering the NBA at an earlier age might have a neutral if not positive effect. Although the results show primarily negative coefficients for performance after entrance from high school, the primarily positive coefficients for the ?Top 5? interaction term have the opposite effect. Combining these two coefficients tells us that top five recruits who enter the NBA immediately after high school fair about the same as those who attend college and in some cases outperform ...

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