Top 2 Recruit and Potential #1 Draft Pick skips College for NBA G-League

[Mansa Mufasa]

Turns out this is an entire new program separate from the g league similar to basketball academies in Europe. This is huge news:

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...form=amp&_nocache1=&__twitter_impression=true

NBA finally stepping up and putting full effort into a development program. The players future college tuition will also be covered. Even better they got a top recruit right away to join. He's also getting $500k and not $125k as originally reported.

Jonathan Givony on Twitter

“Ahead of a 1pm eastern formal announcement, Jalen Green has started to inform college suitors that he plans to enter the NBA/G League's professional pathway program, sources tell ESPN. He is ESPN's #1 prospect in the 2020 high school class.”

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KnicksFeed on Twitter

“Top 2 HS recruit Jalen Green has officially entered the process of joining the G-League, per ESPN.”

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Kevin O'Connor on Twitter

“By going to the G League, Jalen Green receives $500K, a full college scholarship, skill/life training, and will face tougher competition than college offers with coaches focused on development. Sure seems like an easy choice for elite HS recruits instead of dealing with the NCAA.”

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Ever since I saw the Fab Five documentary and I heard that Chris Webber was going hungry during his college years but couldn't accept free meals because of NCAA regulations but saw that the Michigan was selling jerseys with his name on it for a $100 I've been saying FUCK the NCAA. It's modern day slavery. Glad to see North America catch up to Europe.

By going to the G League, Jalen Green receives $500K, a full college scholarship, skill/life training, and will face tougher competition than college offers with coaches focused on development. Sure seems like an easy choice for elite HS recruits instead of dealing with the NCAA. [\QUOTE]

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[LOLDSFAN]

Good!

They deserve to get paid for their talents.

 

[taro]

Anything that contributes to the dissolution of the NCAA is okay with me.

 

[Deleted member 2802]

Ever since I saw the Fab Five documentary and I heard that Chris Webber was going hungry during his college years but couldn't accept free meals because of NCAA regulations but saw that the Michigan was selling jerseys with his name on it for a $100 I've been saying FUCK the NCAA. It's modern day slavery. Glad to see North America catch up to Europe.

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"Between 1988 and 1993 Martin gave Webber about $280,000. Eventually, Webber would confess to having received and repaid only $38,200, an amount identified via a specific transaction tied to Webber. "

University of Michigan basketball scandal - Wikipedia

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[Darkmaigle]

The NCAA was never gonna change. So in this case

fuck em

 

[Heysoos]

Get that bread! Fuck the NCAA

 

[Violence Jack]

LOL

Get fucked NCAA

 

[LukeOP]

NCAA is screwed.

 

[Yasuke]

Yessir.

 

[WascallyWabbit]

Man, I can't wait for the day I can go see my local G League team and some hype kid is playing for them. I always loved the idea of having a 1yr stint in the G league if you didn't go to college.

I can see it actually being a win-win for the players union too, kids coming into the league get paid initially but they don't necessarily threaten the work force of the guys currently in the league.

 

[Blue Skies]

Fuck the NCAA and college sports

If someone's an athlete they should be able to go pro/minor pro if they have the skill

 

[EPaul]

Some good news i hope others follow suit

 

[Slayven]

Get that money

 

[maruchan]

Who cares, no one will ever watch a g league game on tv or will it ever compete in ratings to a NCAA game. NBA needs. A proper minor league like mlb.

 

[WascallyWabbit]

Who cares, no one will ever watch a g league game on tv or will it ever compete in ratings to a NCAA game. NBA needs. A proper minor league like mlb.

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Yeah but this is where it starts, getting hype high school kids will open it up to people actually going to the games and someday watching it.

 

[PinaColada]

Absolute shit that colleges are able to gain millions of the back of these athletes.

Wish more secondary leagues could offer things like this.

 

[Falchion]

Awesome news, glad he's going to make some decent money too.

 

[ccbfan]

I was about to say if he wanted to be paid he should have went to Kentucky but then realized he's getting paid 500k, slight pay cut but at least he doesn't have to deal with the facade of classes.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Let the floodgates open.

 

[Malleymal]

I wanted to see Jalen down at Auburn with Sharief, but this is a great move.

 

[Sandfox]

This is huge and will hurt the NCAA bad if more top prospects join in.

They're losing out on more and more players.

 

[Pirate Bae]

NCAA going to be hurting for huge draft potential talent with this

Good, fuck em

 

[Maximum Spider]

Fuck college sports

 

[Mansa Mufasa]

"Between 1988 and 1993 Martin gave Webber about $280,000. Eventually, Webber would confess to having received and repaid only $38,200, an amount identified via a specific transaction tied to Webber. "

University of Michigan basketball scandal - Wikipedia

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This does nothing to invalidate what I said. I'm well aware of the scandal. Jalen Rose was apart of it as well. It's well documented that kids fall prey to these type of predator BECAUSE of the NCAA regulations.

 

[hodayathink]

Are they gonna get paid even if there's no season?