The NBA’s G League has come up with a new venture which will act as an alternative to the one and done route for the best American basket ball prospects. This comes as a move that would help to confront the NCAA’s monopoly on elite talent.
The League will present Select Contracts with a merit of 125 thousand US Dollars to elite prospects as part of a newly shaped professional path that would be starting in the summer of 2019. They would be working with people who are eighteen years of age but not qualified for the draft of NBA.
The league president Malcolm Turner told ESPN that, “The recent or high school graduates will be the G League’s target. They would be given an opportunity to benefit from the infrastructure of NBA with a six figure salary.
John Calipari, Kentucky Wildcats coach has expressed that the players should be ready to skip college for NBA. He also said that if the players who are going to the G League but don’t make it to the NBA should be guaranteed with eight semesters of college. This would give them more confident and freedom to concentrate on the game, he added.
The players will be allowed to hire agents without abiding to the restrictions of the NCAA’s amateurism rules. Not only that they are also permitted to see profit off their choice like pursuing new marketing deals from sport companies and endorse their products. Marketing deals of this sort from top sports companies would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The top prospects would be laid to such opportunities through the G League.
We will have to wait till the summer of 2019, to witness how this G League will shape the top prospects of future.
Source 1: www.espn.in
Source 2: www.cbssports.com
