wallacecuse
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Has anyone ever seen someone in public wearing BBB gear? I haven't.
Yes because BBB league is going to provide a better platform to showcase your talent to the NBA
Remember when SU was the real Beast of the East?
I wouldn't be too worried. I doubt Carey is being specifically targeted. That looked like a generic message sent to all of the top 100-150 or so players. Plus, there isn't exactly a league set up right now. It's all in Lavar's mind at this point.My concern would be Lavar starts greasing the palms of those people around Carey to steer him to his league. In other words he starts recruiting one of our players
I don’t think this has any appeal for fans. Colleges have built-in rabid fan bases with history and tradition and alumni affiliations. Lavar Ball is a crazy person. I wish the media didn’t give him so much attention.He also needs 80 players that actually want to do this. They would have to be basically top 150 kids, at worse, for this to have any appeal for fans.
Agreed. I think most of us watch college hoops because we have a personal connection to a specific team. Either as alums or some sort of geographical familiarity. This type of mercenary league, with kids who will only play within it for one year — it builds no relationships, so it's just another junior, preparatory league. At least with the D/G-League, there are NBA affiliations and players who have already made names for themselves, and still they only play to small audiences.No one would watch this. I know I wouldn’t.
I don’t think this has any appeal for fans. Colleges have built-in rabid fan bases with history and tradition and alumni affiliations. Lavar Ball is a crazy person. I wish the media didn’t give him so much attention.
The NBA can’t get 10 million dollars to broadcast the G league.Cable networks are desperate for content. Can someone get a sports network to pony up 10 million a year and then get Nike or Adidas to match it? It could be half live sports and half reality TV. Kind of a MMA atmosphere meets that Netflix show on JUCO Football.
I wouldn't watch it, and I don't think its a threat to college sports, and I don't know that Lavar Ball has the smarts to make it work, but I could see it getting off the ground.
The NBA can’t get 10 million dollars to broadcast the G league.
Players can go to the G league out of HS.
BBB has an grade from the Better Business Bureau. They aren’t going to get any real money from networks.
So, all kidding aside, I doubt that this will affect Carey / us [although that would certainly be just our luck].
BUT if I step back and think about the big picture, it isn't hard to envision that there might be a viable market opportunity / niche for a league of this sort. I'd have to think that when the NBA adjusts their draft eligibility rules again -- and the latest skuttlebutt I've heard is that they are considering letting HS'ers go right to the league, but those that go to college wouldn't be eligible to be drafted for 2 or 3 years, similar to baseball -- then we might get a situation where players who aren't obvious early entrants straight out of the HS chute, or those that don't WANT to go to college and would rather get paid, or those who give college a shot, and then need to kill time until they are eligible for the NBA might be willing to do something like this as an alternative.
I have no idea how many teams [and by default, how many roster spots would be available] they would have, who would sponsor, where they'd play, whether it would be televised or not, etc. Would there be public interest? Hard to say -- I doubt that the G-League gets much attention, even though games are aired on the NBA channel, so by the transitive property I assume it wouldn't be a huge draw.
But it feels like something like this could be a viable "minor league" for players who want to eschew college.
If you were a HS kid and received this, you wouldn't post it?Why would Carey post this... attention? To me, it’s in poor taste for him to post it.
If you were a HS kid and received this, you wouldn't post it?