Green jumping into the draft

[T.M.P.]

None of this has anything to do with what my post was about.

Go take a nap.

 

[All4You]

The super good players will go straight to the pros (usually like 6 or so guys a year) and the rest will go to college...which is the NBA's free developmental league.

I agree with your stance regarding the NBA and expanding/promoting it's G league, but i'm not so sure about this. These OAD kids get very little in the way of "coaching up" in their less than a year in college that couldn't otherwise be done on an NBA roster. With the expansion of AAU ball, the vast majority of kids who would be ready @ 19 will be just as ready @ 18. As it is, almost half the players drafted these past few drafts are either OAD or overseas kids. NBA teams aren't as wary as they used to be taking chances on youth, so I expect them to dip much deeper than 6 or so HS seniors a year. Maybe not quite as many as the 20 plus OAD's they are currently taking, but close.

 

[speroni]

I find it interesting the way the NCAA and MLB have structured their rules. A player who graduates HS or is in a junior college can go pro at any time. If you're in a 4 year college, you can be drafted after your third year or if you are 21 - whichever comes first. BUT... if you get drafted, you can retain your NCAA eligibility if you don't sign a contract with the team who drafted you.

 

[ufo33]

IMO if the NBA continues to grab more and more players straight out of high school through Select Contracts to the G League, G League Draft or NBA draft (if it goes back to drafting 18 year olds) it will limit NBA fan bases of people who would want to spend time and/or money watching games. If the NBA wants to keep up interest levels, then requiring high school players to play at least one year (and maybe even two years) in college would give people a chance to see them play and root for them in college prior to playing in the NBA or in the G League. The best thing the NBA could do to keep up interest levels is for fan bases to build a connection with college players in hundreds of college towns all over the country. More people would have a connection with new NBA players if they had a chance to watch them play in college. Personally, I would be more inclined to watch an NBA game if I knew some of the players from having watched them play in college. I believe a lot of people feel the same way.

Nail on head.

 

[ufo33]

There is a bunch of money being generated by these kids because of where they play, not because of who they are. A UK fan in Bowling Green does not give a hoot about a one and done player for the Louisville (city) G League franchise.

Yeah, those kids generate money but it is not the same kind of money they would generate if they were not playing for a school like Indiana.

Ostensibly, the Fort Wayne Mad Ants generally have better talent overall and play against better talent than IU. You know how many games of theirs I would watch even with Romeo on the team? Zero. And I grew up in Ft. Wayne. Minor league games are where you take your kids for a diversion. The NBA is not going to split up their revenue model right now to expand the G-League because there is not the money in it that you think there is. If it was a cash cow, they would have been all over it years ago. When OAD goes away, it will go back to how it was. The super good players will go straight to the pros (usually like 6 or so guys a year) and the rest will go to college...which is the NBA's free developmental league.

No, I think the G-League is tuly a NBA Minor League now. More kids want paid earlier, G-League will increase its salaries to be more like MLB, with million dollar signing bonuses to NBA draftees, who are then sent down to the G-League to develop as an 18 year old playing against other men rather than boys in college. College basketball will be a true development league where only a rare few college players ever play in the NBA. Less interest in college basketball will result. The coaches will be the star in college basketball without NBA talent on their rosters. But the professional players are the stars in the NBA. If Romeo or Zion played for the Mad Ants I would get season tickets.

 

[TommyCracker]

No, I think the G-League is tuly a NBA Minor League now. More kids want paid earlier, G-League will increase its salaries to be more like MLB, with million dollar signing bonuses to NBA draftees, who are then sent down to the G-League to develop as an 18 year old playing against other men rather than boys in college. College basketball will be a true development league where only a rare few college players ever play in the NBA. Less interest in college basketball will result. The coaches will be the star in college basketball without NBA talent on their rosters. But the professional players are the stars in the NBA. If Romeo or Zion played for the Mad Ants I would get season tickets.

Damon Bailey and Jay Edwards played together for the mad ants and no one went.

The G league would have to get some kind of national TV deal and promote each team to build the fanbase outside of whatever mid market city it's in....which will never happen.

It will be just like the minor leagues where a handful of people go watch and no one follows.

 

[ufo33]

Damon Bailey and Jay Edwards played together for the mad ants and no one went.

The G league would have to get some kind of national TV deal and promote each team to build the fanbase outside of whatever mid market city it's in....which will never happen.

It will be just like the minor leagues where a handful of people go watch and no one follows.

I actually went to watch Damon Bailey and Jay Edwards when they were playing for the Fort Wayne Fury. And Keith Smart was the coach before he coached in the NBA.