This is interesting...
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/1...agree-deal-david-harrison-targets-royce-white
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/1...agree-deal-david-harrison-targets-royce-white
Royce White to semi pro league
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I question the market for a D-League with worse players. But paying guys like David Harrison $200k before you even have teams established certainly sounds like a good business move to start with, the people have been clamoring for more David Harrison! Time to give them what they want.
Good for Royce. He's only going to get so many opportunities to prove himself, he's got to take advantage of these.
Side note, when I saw David Harrison, I thought is it that David Harrison? Sure enough it was.
That guy and his brother LOVED ISU and Hilton.
http://qctimes.com/sports/college/i...cle_d598066a-6ee2-51fe-b977-74a72582f06c.html
Side note, when I saw David Harrison, I thought is it that David Harrison? Sure enough it was.
That guy and his brother LOVED ISU and Hilton.
http://qctimes.com/sports/college/i...cle_d598066a-6ee2-51fe-b977-74a72582f06c.html
It seems like they want to make a D league that is more attractive to high school players. It may work. The salary is roughly the same as overseas, maybe a little less but more than D League, but the players can stay in the US where they are more comfortable. Collect some money while playing in Las Vegas and not have to worry about going to classes.
Always had a feeling that someone would try to get HS players to go semi-pro. I've been hoping for the NBA to implement a system that's similar to the MLB.
Yeah, except with basketball you don't need A, AA, and AAA. One well run level would likely be enough, otherwise it may dampen the college game.
There is ZERO chance that it will work. There is no audience for this. Once any investors into this venture realize they will never see a dime of return on their investment it will fold.
That is dependent on whether a TV contract can be secured, which is dependent on the talent they can get. If you can see the kind of players like Emmanuel Mudiay, Andrew Wiggins, Ben Simmons, Thon Maker and washouts like Royce White play in this, it will be successful. But if they can only get guys like David Harrison and the high schooler that was ranked in the 80s on rivals, it will fail.
They have failed to land ANY of the Top high school prospects despite their claims otherwise. The clock is ticking. If they fail to land any of the Class of 2016 Top 25 kids then they are DONE. Millionaire investors aren't going to keep flushing their investments down the toilet crossing their fingers and hoping. They didn't get to be millionaires doing that.
Maybe they each can have one gal in a bikini on the floor with four men to spice it up to get customers in the door. Yep, sounds like a long shot.
I never said that it will work. I should it could work. It's a tough thing to get started but once going it would have a chance to succeed.
How? There's no market for D-League teams which have tons of well known college players on them and salaries capped at $40k. Most of those teams lose money and are subsidized by the NBA. You're only going to get hardcore hoop fans turning into watch this form of basketball which is going to be the worst parts of the college game combined with the worst parts of the NBA and I doubt you would make money even if you only paid the players $10k. Yet the amount you will have to pay them to skip college will guarantee they have no shot at ever turning a profit.
They could get all of those guys and it would still fail. There's no market for it, people aren't going to watch crappy basketball. The vast majority of people only watch college basketball because of their ties to one of the schools. Put college players in a sterile NBDL like environment with no university affiliation and no one is watching that. Plus you would have to rerecruit the top high school kids every single year because they all would bounce to the NBA the first chance they got.