Stern, making his annual championship-series address, prompted serious discussion about instituting a minimum-age requirement - perhaps age 20, he said - for players' draft eligibility.

The basic requirements for draft eligibility are:

In the third annual High School Hoops magazine, the players weighed in on the subject of the new rules regarding draft eligibility.

With their second pick the Canucks selected Alexandre Mallet, a gritty centreman, who was passed over in his first year of draft eligibility.

The new collective bargaining agreement between the league and its players union established a new age limit for draft eligibility.

He was in his last year of draft eligibility and was hoping to follow other college players who signed lucrative contracts as free agents after going unselected.

He acquired United States citizenship in early 1918 with the expectation that his medical history would exempt him from his final year of draft eligibility.

In 1970 Tancredo appealed his 1-A draft status, which would have put him at the top of the list for draft eligibility during the Vietnam War.

She ruled that the league's restriction on draft eligibility - a player must be three years out of high school - was a violation of antitrust law.

The N.F.L. plans to meet this month with National Collegiate Athletic Association officials to discuss the issue of draft eligibility.