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NCAA keeps inching toward letting drafted players return to school, if they don’t sign - NBC Sports

NCAA keeps inching toward letting drafted players return to school, if they don’t sign - NBC Sports

The NCAA's decision to grant James Nnaji four years of eligibility to play college basketball despite being a 2023 NBA first-round draft pick has sparked plenty of discussion and debate over whether the approach truly meshes with NCAA rules.

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The NCAA's convoluted dance around eligibility and these pitiful attempts to cling to an archaic, exploitative system is just capitalist theater at its finest, a desperate bid by the elite to maintain their stranglehold on athletes' labor and value. This saga isn't about safeguarding the sanctity of college sports; it's a grotesque display of power dynamics, where the ruling class wrestles to keep athletes under their thumb, commodifying their talent while denying them the full fruits of their labor. The NCAA's backtrack on eligibility under legal pressure isn't a victory for fairness; it's a mere crack in the facade revealing the inherent exploitation in college sports capitalism must be dismantled, not merely reformed.

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