Also… the G-League seems to be outbidding OTE/colleges.
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Right…as opposed to a business. Like you said, burn the money and look for an exit.
Jake Paul just signed a multi-fight deal with Showtime. OTE feels like if he had tried to launch his own boxing promotion instead. He’s got tons of subscribers and probably millions to play with but league revenue is ultimately built upon TV deals, licensing, merchandising, and ticket sales, in that order. OTE doesn’t have any of that yet and it certainly doesn’t have the built-in relationship with the NBA that Ignite has.
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In my gut I’m in favor of a scenario where the G-League just suffocates OTE. One of them makes sense to me as a path forward for prospects, the other doesn’t.
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Also one is a proven commodity to get guys in the league and showcase them against legit competition the other feels a bit more gimmicky, less stable and unproven in getting guys to the next level
I find the business model completely baffling and continue to believe that the built in audiences of large public universities will continue to prove more lucrative than any other sub-NBA option. The question, as always, is how the lucre is divided among various participants.
By the way in some ways there is a wonderful similarity to the Super League in European football where you have this unloved behemoth org (NCAA or UEFA) that provides critical enabling conditions and has used that position to monetize a huge fraction of the $ and the other participants are trying to figure out how to get the money without breaking the system and they are so far unwilling to destroy the system enablers.
That’s not the type of prospect I’m talking about though. Sure Todd fell, but it was to 20th on the composite. He’s still pretty highly regarded.
I mean guys like Seventh Woods who are anointed early on as top 10 guys because they’re physically mature (or whatever reason) and fall to generic 4 stars with little draft hype by the time they’re seniors. The 2020 example would be Jaemyn Brakefield (#2 overall as a sophomore). 2019 is DJ Jeffries, 2018 had Khavon Moore and Shareef O’Neal, 2017 had Codey Riley, Ike Obiagu, and Jeremiah Tilmon (11th, but close enough), 2016 had Tyus Battle (only fell to 39th, not necessarily “generic” 4 star), and Seventh Woods (Side Note: former Indiana forward De’Ron Davis didn’t qualify for this as his way too early peak was only 13th, but wow I did not know he was once super highly regarded). I’m positive there are more who I’m missing, and these are just too 10, not top 20. Some of these dudes are still either on NBA radars or in the case of the older ones, in the league, but I think Todd is a much different case as he still looks like he could be a 1st rounder. We’ll see.
All I’m saying is even as a top guy, it seems like a pretty ballsy move to go all in-on professional basketball in your sophomore year of high school. Lots can change.
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Sure, just depends on the situation. More about the kid and how much they want to go to college than ranking.
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Yep, college was an awesome time for a lot of us. Most student athletes I know don’t feel the same… other than the sporting itself.
Hooping, getting paid, and no school is probably intriguing to a lot of guys.
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I’m glad you didn’t roast the he** out of that because going through 247 took way longer than I expected when I first undertook it 
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A year of OTE for top juniors then straight to the G League could work if the NBA brings OTE into the fold. It’s like a next-level reclass.
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They now have a guy going to the G-League two years before eligibility so I feel like they don’t need OTE
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Don’t know where to put this but what an awful sad situation
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This is really sad to read. Unfortunately for Appling he probably would have been better off going to a different school. By staying at MSU he could never escape where he grew up. This isn’t his first mishap and unfortunately there are too many people that don’t have his best interests at heart.
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Speaking of influencer houses, I thought this was pretty interesting to read:
Just heart breaking to hear the bad news of former MSU player Keith Appling being arrested in the shooting of a 66 yr old😥
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thought that they are still loooking for him
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Twins only in OTE?
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Those kids are very good, better than the other pair of twins. Very fascinating and pretty big pulls for OTE.
Just reading the tea leaves… it is starting to feel like Jalen Duren and Emoni Bates signing pro deals this summer seems more and more likely but I guess we’ll see.
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