How Young Basketball Players Can Maximize Their Value
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- 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.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Date created | May 2013 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Boothe, Andrew | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary advisor | Noll, Roger | |
| Degree granting institution | Stanford University, Department of Economics |
Subjects
| Subject | Stanford Department of Economics |
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| 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 |
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- Boothe, Andrew. (2013). How Young Basketball Players Can Maximize Their Value. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/xv226yf3840
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