"One and done"

0 Comments | USA TODAY, May, 2008 | by Erik Brady and Steve Wieberg

The NBA no longer drafts players out of high school. They must wait until after their freshman year of college. The league says its rule works well. Critics are renewing objections after allegations against Southern Cal's O.J. Mayo.

Doonesbury's Zonker Harris once called his time at Walden College "nine of the best years of my life."

O.J. Mayo might come to think of Southern California as the two best semesters of his.

The here-today, gone-tomorrow guard joins up to a dozen others who are leaving college after one season for next month's NBA draft, the third under the league's so-called "one-and-done" rule.

Previously, the NBA allowed players to be drafted directly from high school. Since 2006, draftees must be at least 19 years old and...