John Hollinger (Insider) on the idea of banning players from the NBA for not one, but two years after high school: "... that's the real threat of Stern's idea -- that the next LeBron James or Carmelo Anthony will decide that it would be much easier to spend the next two years making several million dollars in Barcelona or Athens. Once over there, he'd have an incentive to stay because of another restraint -- the rookie salary scale. ... Because of situations like that, the league is down from 85 international players a year ago to 75 this season -- even though the quality of said players hasn't changed. But the wave of players arriving from Europe has slowed to a trickle -- Luis Scola was the only major international veteran to change continents this season. That's the problem the league risks running into by building so many restraints on salaries and eligibility. In the current economic environment, there's a real chance that increasing the age limit would be one restraint too many, and that the Law of Unintended Consequences will rise up and bite Stern in the rear."
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