What Spencer Haywood has said about NBA four-year eligibility rule

1 quote · 1 episode · May 8, 2026

Spencer Haywood, American former professional basketball player, Olympic gold medalist and Hall of Famer whose Supreme Court case ended the NBA's four-year rule, has been quoted on NBA four-year eligibility rule once in 1 episode of Digital Social Hour, most recently on May 8, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Haywood argues that the four-year rule was causing the league to lose many players before they could turn professional.
“that was my argument when I was fighting all the way to the Supreme Court is that we were losing so many players waiting on the four-year rule”
Digital Social Hour: He Took the NBA to the Supreme Court... & Won... | Spencer Haywood | DSH #1955 (May 8, 2026) · Listen from 1:48

Episodes

He Took the NBA to the Supreme Court... & Won... | Spencer Haywood | DSH #1955
Digital Social Hour · May 8, 2026 · 1 h 4 min
Basketball Hall of Famer Spencer Haywood tells Sean Kelly about his Supreme Court fight against the NBA, 1968 Olympic gold, racism, addiction, therapy and family.

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