Novel New Idea

[user1]

When the very best high school basektball players graduate, they have to spend at least one year extra in college, prep school, or somewhere, because they aren't eligible for the NBA Draft. If they are projected as the top draft pick, then why waste a year playing for free?
Here is a great new idea for top players like Greg Oden and OJ Mayo.

Just go play basketball in Europe for a year. Then return the following year and you still will be a top pick. In that year in Europe the player could make and extra $500,000 or more.
How long before we see it happen?
In fact, why not leave in your junior year of high school and play two years in Europe, and make even more before returning to the NBA?

[bu fan 9]

But what you are for getting is that some players make that much at certian Colleges.Or there family members get good jobs where they make that kind of money.

[flipper]

they could also be on reggie bush's program.

[tornado]

But what you are for getting is that some players make that much at certian Colleges.Or there family members get good jobs where they make that kind of money.

No way.
Maybe some colleges have a way of funnelling some bucks by hiring a family member, or getting the kid an "unrepayable" loan or a car or some funds routed through the AAU coaches, but the amounts involved are in the 10's of thousands of $$ at most.
This article is talking about a kid possibly making as much as a Million $$ before he is drafted. Players like Toni Kukoc and Darko Milicic did exactly this same thing and were already making big bucks before being drafted.

In fact, some of these kids in Europe make so much money, that, for example, the guy who was drafted #11 last year (Fran Vasquez from Spain), wasn't even the least bit interested in the 3 million dollar per year offer the Orlando Magic threw at him, and used his draft spot as leverage to get an even better deal with his European team and stayed there.

[BUBravesMan]

Plus some people just enjoy college basketball and have dreamt of playing in the NCAA tournament or even winning the National Championship. Once you take money, you can't play in college ever again.

[tornado]

Here's how OJ will get rich even before he gets to the NBA

Interesting tale about the top highschooler in the nation, Class
of 2007.
First he gets a lengthy suspension from his high school ("after a
recent fight at school -- an alleged altercation with a female
student"), then says he's going to Oak Hill prep. But rumors
say when Oak Hill learned he had been suspended by his rpior
school, they put his acceptance on hold to learn more.
Then, all of a sudden, the news changes and OJ is only
suspended for a little more than a week, so now he's going to
return to North College Hill in Cincinnati.

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060501/SPT0301/305010008/1068/SPT

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060429/SPT0301/604290404/-1/CINCI

Another Source says they might not go to Kansas State, but
both Mayo and his high school teammate, Walker will go to USC
to enjoy the good Southern California life (as in Reggie Bush??)
Note in this story, that OJ Mayo's LEGAL GUARDIAN is also his
AAU coach and note all the comments about the
seedy "middlemen" that have infiltrated the world of AAU &
summer circuits.

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060430/SPT0301/604300411/1069/SPT03

One more rumor has Kansas State coach Bob Huggins hiring
Mayo's coach/guardian to his K-State staff to strengthen his
chances of getting OJ.