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Would raising age limit help NBA?

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Chad Ford (@chadfordinsider): We are in Portland, Oregon, at the Nike Hoops Summit, and a bunch of our NBA and college basketball analysts are here. Joining me (the NBA draft guy) are Fran Fraschilla (our college basketball guru who was a college head coach), NBA writer Marc Stein and analytics guru Kevin Pelton (who's been fantastic in helping us with the draft). We decided to get together, put all of our minds together, and talk about the state of the NBA draft. We want to talk not about particular players but about the impact the NBA draft has on the NBA.

And let's talk about one current issue that's really hot right now: age limit. We have the commissioner talking about wanting to at least add another year for players to stay in school. The players' association, I think, is generally against that and thinks that players should come out of high school. Let's go around the horn: Should the NBA be implementing age restrictions? Should the league increase them? Should the league get rid of them all together? Fran, what do you think?