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In some ways, how Zion Williamson’s one-and-done year at Duke ends hardly matters, although Saturday night’s 73-63 victory here over Florida State in the ACC tournament championship game stamps his team as the national title favorites. Though the so-called one-and-done rule that prohibits players from entering the NBA draft until they’ve been out of high school for a year was not the NCAA’s doing and isn’t the NCAA’s to undo, there is now near-unanimity among the people that matter that it needs to go, with NBA commissioner Adam Silver chief among them.
For all the feigned outrage from the stuffed shirts in Indianapolis about what a mockery it was for Anthony Davis or Derrick Rose to call themselves college students for eight months, the reality of the situation is that no other sports organization on earth would say, “We don’t want you” to the most talented people eligible to play under of their banner.
“It’s almost an unfair question because we’ve had Zion,” Swofford said. “You ask me that about Kobe Bryant or LeBron James, who were never in college basketball, I don’t think you really miss something you never have. So if they’re not here, I don’t think it hurts.”
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