Greg Brown entertains G-league offer
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If he isn't coming here he might as well go to the G League.
This G League stuff is gonna fail miserably and I cant wait to see it happen
it will be interesting to see this play out the next couple of years. if you are a top 10-15 player there is little to no reason to consider the "hometown hero" card. if you are looking cash (or a job for a family member) there is really not point to considering a ok state, lsu, or washington for a year. just go get thee 6 figure deal thats on the table.
but there is still value in going to a duke, uk, or ku. it will be interesting to see how blue blood coaches balance recruiting these guys.
but there is still value in going to a duke, uk, or ku. it will be interesting to see how blue blood coaches balance recruiting these guys.
I keep seeing all these G League offers to Top 10 guys I wonder why I can't find any story about an offer to Dook's Jalen Johnson LOL. Ratface would probably have Rod Strickland coaching in Siberia if you did.
Unless the NBA is funding this glorified minor league, it’ll take a few busts to affect these six figure offers
I hope so because it will ruin CBB once and for all if it becomes a trend.
Man, the nba has never given anything to college basketball. Now they’re ready to step on its throat.
How does this work? Is he being offered 400k from one team? Or is the league buying him and placing him somewhere for a year?
How does this work? Is he being offered 400k from one team? Or is the league buying him and placing him somewhere for a year?
Hard to believe NBA has this kind of money to throw around when there a lot of half empty arenas during the season and over paid players. God bless these kids for being able to get the money, I would take the money also.
what benefit does a 1 yr deal give a G League? If any NBA team can pick that player in a year, then how is it beneficial. Their games have small attendance
Honestly, Brown is a perfect candidate for the G-League. He’ll have plenty of highlight reel dunks that they can put on their tv commercials.
I just don't see how this new d-league business model is sustainable. Minor leagues in baseball isn't shelling out this kind of money to prospects. The attendance and TV revenue isn't big enough.
attendance is the last thing they care about. they are doing this for:
- improved player development
- marketing/branding next generation of stars
This is the beginning of their plan.
Collect the names and star power, build a rep as the place for elite talent, put cameras on it. They already have the framework and foundation in place.
You're also dealing with much smaller rosters than minor league baseball and the players are big league ready much, much faster.
Besides, the return on investment is miles ahead. Zion is a better earner than Mike Trout. Easy.
I don’t believe it’s about that for the G-League; it seems to be more of an investment, than an attempt to profit.
I’m sure they believe they can train and development these young men better than any college or University. From that perspective it makes sense.
Bring in the best young talent with quality incentives; strictly focus on development and player progression; the output from this—theoretically—will be better players who are more prepared for the professional level. Thus, leading to a better product on the court, which in turn should increase League profits long term.
Thoughts anyone?
I dunno if they'll be able to keep those numbers up - they have a lot of building to do to make the league viable, but can you blame a kid for those kinds of numbers?
For normal people to have a shot at that kind of salary, you either:
- spend every waking moment and risk everything to build a thriving business from the ground floor, knowing that the vast majority fail, and knowing that it could all be ripped away from you with a market downturn
- get a competitive undergrad degree, then do 100+ hour/wk scrubwork on wall street until you're 30 - and then be in the top whatever % of those guys
- get an MBA, then go from 25-50 gunning as hard as you can up the corporate ladder, which may or may not work
- get into one of maybe 3 competitive professional graduate fields, do 80+ hour/wk type schooling until you're 30 - and then you need to be in the top quartile of those grads
- become wildly popular talking about minecraft or lipstick on youtube
I wouldn't blame any kid for taking it in a heartbeat.
They;re going for everybody that are in the top 10-15. A lot of them are turning them down though.
But Zion would never have been in the d league. I'm not sure you'll have the interest needed to pull it off. We'll see.
Or...it could succeed fabulously, no one knows which is the true fear in the situation with the G League on this board. People don’t want to believe that the world it changing quickly. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the number of top recruits exponentially grow over the next few seasons until they figure out the threshold on what recruits are worth the money and who aren’t, then the dust will settle.
If the G league starts pulling the top recruits consistently, lots of fans that don’t like the roster turnover every year will finally get their wish. Big time programs will have to settle for players that will most likely stay 2-4 years.
cal's replacement should be bennett from uva. his system is dreadful but it works pretty well against average talent
I think the very best talents will go straight to the NBA, and the d league will have a hard time with guys like Greg Brown. It'll be hard to build interest. Unless the NBA decides to make every prospect go the d league route. And the college game will survive. Fans of schools will follow, just like we did in the early 2000s. Because we are fans of the school. No matter how poor the talent.
Nah, its gonna fail because these young kids are gonna get destroyed by hungry vets
i'm always shocked that there are so many here incapable of looking past the present.
I will definitely miss the elites. I’ve been in Cals corner since the beginning. I love Cal, I love what he’s done. He literally revived our program overnight. He’s brought us a title and multiple Final Fours and exciting seasons and perhaps the best decade in our programs history. I support him. I will continue to support him because more often than not he has us at least in contention for a FF run.
THAT being said I am growing weary of the O&D and professionalization. The constant turnover etc. If we have to “suffer” watching 60th-100th ranked guys in college basketball for 2-4 years I’m absolutely 100% okay with that and actually look forward to it in a way.
Will it be different? Yes. But it will absolutely still be enjoyable and entertaining. Some are acting like the non top 25 and the dudes who aren’t in the 1st round of mock drafts every year aren’t still really really good basketball players.
I think the long game would be a two-tier minor league system. One level for guys under say 21 and the regular minor league roster. With the shifting to "load management", eventually NBA split contracts will expand even more so guys can be brought up like the current two they are allowed.
The top 1% in the US make an average of 421k, so yes I don’t see how you turn that down to play basketball for free at a university
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The NBA makes $9 billion dollars a year. Shelling out $5 million a year total for the top high school prospects is pocket change. It’s 100% sustainable because the NBA runs and finances the G League.
Huge TV contracts- not sure why, I watch a few games when the Phoenix Suns play (where I now live) but NBA is hard to watch to me
we know what it would look like right. we would like current middle of the back conference teams. slightly better with better coaching but the ceiling is low with a lack of talent. then middle of the pack conference are probably worse.
how many times did you turn on the SEC channel to watch mizzu and msu play and say: "god these teams are junk".
not to mention there will always be roster turnover. kids who blow up will still go pro after a year or two, kids will still transfer.
I can see positives in it. Losing the mercenaries will go a long way in fans connecting to the team. Kentucky will always be Kentucky. Getting kids that want to be in college versus kids that just mark their days here on the calendar is going to be a net positive for the program
Yes, the NBA used to make billions. Could be coronavirus has a lasting impact on large gatherings. But, even though a few million really is petty cash to the NBA, if the d league doesn't garner the attention Silver hopes it will, could be they realize they already had a free farm system with the NBA. Who knows, at this point. So much is left to be determined.
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