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Message: [QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 5012501, member: 225"] It's also the difficult business of being a player who is paid to play basketball. The days of building a program and allowing players to develop over a period of years is gone. You might be a good kid and a hard worker, but you are also getting paid to be a good player. If you aren't, or if you are not projected to be in a reasonable period of time, you are merely overhead on the accounting spreadsheet. There are plenty of shiny objects out there in the portal who might be a better use of your NIL $$$. Players wanted to be paid, but there was always going to be a downside of that for some of them. Unless you can metaphorically earn your keep every year, it will be a case of "You don't have to stop playing basketball, but you can't play basketball here." Not so different from the real, adult world, but likely not what the player ever envisioned. [/QUOTE]