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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – AUGUST 18: Team Zion’s Jalen Green # 14 plunges before the game against Team … [+]
Here’s the bad news for college basketball folks, ranging from NCAA chiefs to school administrators and coaches: Jalen Green stiffened them.
Well, Green did it relative to the University of Memphis, but all of this affected the sport challenged by talent in general.
Green is a 6-foot-6-foot escort from a high school in Napa, California, and he announced that he will take his ranking as the No. 2 player in the country by Rivals.com outside of the college game and directly to NBA League G for the 2020-2021 season.
Uh oh
Yes You thought college basketball was impossible to watch last season, the worst is a few post-coronavirus dribbles.
We are talking about haggling without Green.
Let’s move on to the good news, however. No matter how bad college basketball is for years to come (as those undefeated 1976 Indiana Hoosiers look more powerful at the moment), the sport will still make tons of money.
For two reasons . . .
Still, let’s get back to the bad news for college basketball folks: The future of your game regarding its entertainment value on the court has become more unstable, and this has nothing to do with the coronavirus.
This has everything to do with Green.
Actually, the problem of college basketball is not the green one. It is what he represents.
Green is the poster child for high school basketball players’ freedom to stay away from campuses without fear of affecting their bank accounts anytime soon.
According to NBA rules, you can only enter his draft at age 19, which has caused players to join professional teams abroad for a year before returning.
Either that, or they’ve become “one-of-a-kind” kids at universities (you know, the ones who attend for a year before turning pro), and that has destroyed the continuity of varsity teams that once thrived on four-year-old players. years.
Thanks to Green, universities will begin to lose the elite elite among high school players even by a single season.
Green heads to the G League, which are the NBA’s minor leagues, where he can participate in a shortened 20-game season (as opposed to the normal 50) for what is called “Select Teams.”
NEW YORK, NY – AUGUST 18: Jalen Green # 4 of Team Stanley watches a game before their game against … [+]
Then, he could become the No. 1 pick in the 2021 NBA Draft, while college basketball continues to haggle toward ugliness with the world’s greens staying away.
In a big way.
“There are guys who have turned professional after a year or two, and there are something like 70 or 80 players who tested the waters and were not recruited and did not return for college basketball.” Mike Krzyzewski told me and other reporters in January after his latest Duke team barely beat a mostly ordinary Georgia Tech team in Atlanta. “You can’t take that kind of hit, along with the guys who normally get pro, and it has affected our game.”
When Krzyzewski spoke back then, six teams in the Associated Press Top 5 had lost in the same week for the first time since 1994.
Why? Mediocrity reigned, in part due to that loss of talent in college basketball.
This is why Krzyzewski added: “This is such a good game that it can handle this for a while. But you will need some help. I’m telling you You’re going to need some help. “
Jalen Green did not help.
