Report: NBA not close to eliminating one-and-done rule

It seemed that the NBA’s one-and-done rule would be a thing of the past within the next year, but that will no longer be happening.

ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported on “The Woj Pod” that talk of eliminating the one-and-done rule has stalled for the moment. The NBA is asking teams to make their physicals and medical records of draft prospects available to all teams as part of the deal to eliminate the rule, while the NBPA and agents are firmly against that.

“That’s been the major sticking point for a couple of years now,” Wojnarowski said, via Colin Ward-Henninger of CBS Sports. “And there’s a real strong possibility that the one-and-done conversation isn’t picked up again until the next collective bargaining agreement in 2025.”

There seemed to be a hunger on all sides to change the rule so that high schoolers could go straight to the NBA. In fact, it was said at one point that a rule change was possible by 2021. That’s clearly no longer happening, and it looks like the one-and-done rule is here to stay for at least several more years as a result of this impasse.