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It's Nix, kid that committed to UCLA, it's in another thread. Very bad decision on the kid's part.
Never a bad decision to not play for Mick Cronin.
Signing is only a bar from flipping to another NCAA school. It means nothing if a kid chooses a pro league.
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Todd has top 10 talent but has to learn to focus and play hard all the time. He's the perfect guy for this.
I don't think Nix is ever top 10 because he isn't physically gifted enough, but I'm positive this is better for him than playing for Mick Cronin in empty gyms.
This nonsense is hurting kids futures but, hey, if you don't want to be in college, don't go. If they ruin their careers and lives with no education to fall back on, that's on them. Adulting can be a bumpy road.
The G League is paying for them to go to college whenever they want.
Does that change your opinion? Or was it not actually about education?
Can someone explain to me how this really benefits the g-league? I don't see how a few big time high schoolers is going to get more people to watch. I don't think I've ever met someone who's watched a g league game. I also don't see this changing anything.
The G league will never really be super “popular” in the sense of attracting millions of viewers for games or even a thousand fans in the stands.
That being said I do think more and more top 5-10 guys may end up doing this instead of coming to college.
waving $250k-$500k plus free gear and endorsements in a 17 year olds face will work some of the time.
I’m perfectly fine with it. They don’t want to be in college to begin with.
First, it's a long process. They know they won't build the brand in one year. This is the start of trying to build their own minor league system. The double A baseball season isn't on TV either but it's a solid revenue source.
Second, this is more about getting to develop the next crop of elite players properly. If you're an NBA GM, you'd rather draft a 19 year old that you've developed than who played for BFE Tech with the green light on offense and not forced to play D.
Also, I watch G League games. There's always players you remember or want to cheer for, the coaching/structure is way better than you'd think, and those guys play hard every trip.
Put college jerseys on and don't tell this board they're all getting paid and it's exactly the type of basketball Rafters claims to love.
Put college jerseys on and don't tell this board they're all getting paid and it's exactly the type of basketball Rafters claims to love.
It's the end of college basketball. We're gonna be seeing this more and more each year. Makes you wonder if Vince McMahon wasn't trying to do the same with the XFL and take over college football as the G-League is about to do to basketball.
Make money and don't have to worry about studying/ exams for 8 months or studying/ exams for 8 months and then go make money I know which one I would pick?
Again. It's not about the money. If you have realistic potential to play in the NBA, you would be better off going to the G league. If I was in that situation, I would do that in a heartbeat vs going to college. It's about development and not the money. Your development is limited in college.
none of them do. NBA is the goal/dream. not college.
nix (ranked outside the top 10):
"Going to the NBA was always a dream for me, and playing for the G League is just one step down..."
G league is better than college for developing. No restrictions on practice time, going against better competition everyday and get paid. Don’t have to go to classes and spend more time developing.
Yeah its not that simple as in college you can build a brand and what not but for guys who can't make the grades or are just in horrible financial situations it makes sense. Or just the kid who will never be good enough to build a brand in college and wants to start learning the pro game . It doesn't make sense for guys the level of Cade or Boston or Clarke .
kind of like 99.9% of the kids that go to college to play ball. great point.
These players that leave college after one or two seasons never get their degrees, anyways. So "education" does not have much to do with it.
Basically it just comes down to how you want to spend that brief time before you can enter the draft: either making money but getting little national exposure, or not making money but getting to have your games on ESPN. I think we're gonna see a lot more kids choosing the money option in the coming years.
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Way, way more kids come out of college and stick in the league than develop and get promoted out of the G League and stick.
Yes it would change my opinion but I can't find anything about it. Can you link it?
not necessarily, many players develop in college that the D league would not really want.
IMO...The D league wants to transition players into the league and find those few that can.
Also, I don't think they want too many project type players...why pay them? they have a free minor league system in place already.
Top flight, high potential for NBA...go to D league, but realistically there are only a handful of those guys coming out of high school.
UK offers a lifetime scholarship so they can finish when their playing careers are over. You skipped that part.
It will also chew up and spit out some guys who take longer to develop.
I think you meant, 'will continue to suck'. Kentucky football is better than Texas basketball.
I just hope they put some kind of limit on when they have to decide if they want to go to the G League or not. I'd hate for us to lose a top recruit this late in the recruiting game at a critical position with no great backup. We'd be screwed if we lost Askew (just an example) unless we could poach a very good player from another team with the one time transfer rule. I have a feeling this G League crap and the free agency college is creating is going to completely ruin the sport and we will see interest decline a bunch in the coming years.
One year at a time. Cal will adjust. Unless something unforeseen happens and Clarke or Boston bolts, it shifts the balance in Kentucky's favor: No Nix when the Cats play UCLA in December. Askew is suddenly the highest rated point guard in that game, and Mintz is probably next. And no Jalen Green on any rival team. The gulf between Kentucky's class and the rest of college basketball widens.
First of all this kid is like Quade green level.
2nd 99% of the kids we recruit give 0 F's about education. I believe that we lose players that may stay junior or senior year bc they don't want to take their upper level classes bc they're too hard even though they major in "communications"
2nd 99% of the kids we recruit give 0 F's about education. I believe that we lose players that may stay junior or senior year bc they don't want to take their upper level classes bc they're too hard even though they major in "communications"
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Nix would have been exposed in college. His shooting needs work and so he probably did the right thing and got the money now.
So you actually believe that these kids would have gained much from being in college a year or two? They take joke classes and have no intention of ever using their education (see Doron Lamb, Young, Skal, etc.).
Does this mean the G League now has the #1 recruiting class?
Doubtful, the G league has already shown that players can develop there. And they can focus full time on basketball. This is good for everyone but the most invested college basketball fans. Kids have an option if they don't want to go to college. College players return to being more like student athletes, and the NBA can develop the G-league without hearing all the crying about about one and done.
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