How Young Basketball Players Can Maximize Their Value

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Abstract/Contents

Abstract: In the arena of professional sports, identification and preparation of top prospects occurs at increasingly early ages. Therefore, exceptional young players must make crucial decisions early in their careers that will affect their potential value to an NBA Team. This paper examines the decisions that many entrants to the NBA labor market face, and the consequences that are related to them. By examining the NBA draft classes from 2000-2009, I find that college choice, subsequent college team success, and experience significantly affects the position that a player is drafted. By examining the non-rookie contracts of the draft classes that these RSCI ranked players would go on to comprise, I find that individual performance in the NBA impacts a player’s salary much more than team based metrics.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 2013

Author	Boothe, Andrew
Primary advisor	Noll, Roger
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Economics

Subject	Stanford Department of Economics
Subject	NCAA
Subject	College Choice
Subject	National Basketball Association (NBA)
Subject	National Basketball Players Association (NBPA)
Subject	NBA Draft
Subject	RSCI
Subject	Compensation
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/xv226yf3840

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Preferred Citation: Boothe, Andrew. (2013). How Young Basketball Players Can Maximize Their Value. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/xv226yf3840

Stanford University, Department of Economics, Honors Theses

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