Lavar Ball has changed college and professional basketball forever

[flipbjefrox]

NCAA is about to upend the entire summer basketball recruiting circuit for 40 HS stars, many of whom will pass on college to go G-League route or NBA when 1-and-done rule amended. There are 300+ D-1 coaches pulling their hair out right now.

— Fran Fraschilla (@franfraschilla) October 18, 2018

Good college sports are fake amateur anyways. Paying coach millions and everybody else except the players.

[Motorcity Cobra]

The JBA wasn't about giving young guys a path to make money, it was about spiting UCLA for suspending Gelo and to promote the Ball bros and BBB.

I doubt this league will exist once Lamelo turns 20.

The JBA was talked about before Gelo was suspended. Lavar has talked about the NCAA exploiting kids for a while. Not sure what you're talking about. But ok

I doubt the league will exist another 6 months. The NBA just copied it. Of course kids are going to pick the G-League over JBA.

[siablo14]

The NBA G-League announced today that they'll be giving elite 18 y/o's the opportunity to skip college and join the G-League. They'll be able to hire agents, get endorsement deals, and be paid to play. It's a path to the NBA.

This copies the JBA league which was started by Lavar Ball last year.

Good news. F**ck make all the money for those coaches and schools and not getting any of it.

[siablo14]

NCAA is about to upend the entire summer basketball recruiting circuit for 40 HS stars, many of whom will pass on college to go G-League route or NBA when 1-and-done rule amended. There are 300+ D-1 coaches pulling their hair out right now.

— Fran Fraschilla (@franfraschilla) October 18, 2018

Such wonderful news....

[siablo14]

Well this is going to make it a lot harder for the NCAA to maintain it's position that student athletes shouldn't be getting paid. The G-league will certainly offer some kind of pay.

The NCAA offers the glamor of being on primetime tv for many of them, but that might not be enough.

If a good number of promising highschoolers go to the G-League, I believe viewership will increase.

[-Swizzy-]

The JBA was talked about before Gelo was suspended. Lavar has talked about the NCAA exploiting kids for a while. Not sure what you're talking about. But ok

I doubt the league will exist another 6 months. The NBA just copied it. Of course kids are going to pick the G-League over JBA.

lol you're just making up stuff.

Lavar never talked about JBA before Gelo got suspended.

[DeadLikeMe]

He sure did. Instead of breeding three NBA prospects, he only bred one who already lost his starting job to a 36 year old man with no jumpshot.

[Beercules]

He sure did. Instead of breeding three NBA prospects, he only bred one who already lost his starting job to a 36 year old man with no jumpshot.