The reason why there was a court case against the NBA is because of Spencer Haywood. You had to graduate high school and be out of high school for 4 years. Spencer Haywood didn't like that or agree to that rule. He went to high school for 4 years and went 1 year in college. At the age of 19, he went to the Seattle Supersonics in the year 1969. The NBA wanted to still follow those rules. He then took the NBA to court. In the year of 1971, the court ruled in favor of Spencer Haywood. If he didn't keep his hopes up for playing in the NBA, none of the old star players would have been in the NBA that long. Those stars are Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Air Jordan (Micheal Jordan), and Lebron James. Lots of star players of the day. His daughter though, Sahaakira, wants to be just like him. Graduate high school and skip college. He shortly said afterwards laughed and said, " Your funny, you are graduating college." After learning his lesson going to court for not graduating college.
Spencer Haywood playing with the Seattle Supersonics.