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G League to offer $125K to elite prospects as alternative to one-and-done route
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<blockquote data-quote="Obelix" data-source="post: 1420073" data-attributes="member: 7292"><p>Kids buy shoes because NBA superstars wear them. They do not buy shoes because some highly ranked HS kid wears them, whether they go to Duke, another school or elsewhere. The shoe companies are just placing bets on the future value of some kids, not the short term impact that is non-existent.</p><p></p><p>If shoe companies wanted to pay kids, sign them for their companies and go to G-league, they would do it right now, and there would be absolutely nothing illegal about it. The reason they don't and the reason they pay them to go to college is because college gives those kids the best visibility, exposure, and market value. It is the best value for their investment, that is what both shoe companies and highly ranked HS players want.</p><p></p><p>All this fuzz about Tugs Bowen and now nobody, I mean nobody, really cares now. Without the exposure of college, his value decreased tremendously, whether now in G-league or elsewhere (Australia).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Obelix, post: 1420073, member: 7292"] Kids buy shoes because NBA superstars wear them. They do not buy shoes because some highly ranked HS kid wears them, whether they go to Duke, another school or elsewhere. The shoe companies are just placing bets on the future value of some kids, not the short term impact that is non-existent. If shoe companies wanted to pay kids, sign them for their companies and go to G-league, they would do it right now, and there would be absolutely nothing illegal about it. The reason they don't and the reason they pay them to go to college is because college gives those kids the best visibility, exposure, and market value. It is the best value for their investment, that is what both shoe companies and highly ranked HS players want. All this fuzz about Tugs Bowen and now nobody, I mean nobody, really cares now. Without the exposure of college, his value decreased tremendously, whether now in G-league or elsewhere (Australia). [/QUOTE]
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