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NCAA grants eligibility to a player who played professionally for 2 years

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The NCAA is now allowing players who have played professionally to be able to go back and play at the Division I level-
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...ormer-g-league-player-thierry-darlan-eligible

The NCAA has ruled former G League Ignite player Thierry Darlan eligible to play Division I basketball at Santa Clara, his agent, Todd Ramasar, told ESPN.
Darlan becomes the first player to obtain NCAA eligibility after playing professionally in the G League, where he spent the past two seasons. He will enter college as a junior with two years of eligibility remaining....

The influx of young international pro players onto Division I rosters offered precedent for Darlan's eligibility as a domestic-based professional, with the NCAA loosening its previously strict definitions of amateurism in recent years with the advent of name, image and likeness payments. The NCAA's decision to grant Darlan two years of eligibility was based on his age (21 years, 7 mo) and years removed from high school at the NBA Academy, according to Ramasar.
 
Well then, if NIL gets really lucrative maybe guys like Luka Doncic & Nikola Jokic can be lured back to play college ball?
 
Here is another unusual eligibility ruling...but it comes too late to help Duke Deen...

In a lawsuit vs NCAA, a judge has ruled a player (football) eligible for the full 2025 season, who had already played two full years
of juco ball and three full years of NCAA Division I football - thus giving the player a sixth full year of college ball.

This was essentially the exact same sitiation that was denied to Duke Deen, in that he was not given the extra year for juco because he had
already gotten the extra year in the form of the Covid waiver. But this player got the extra year even tho he had already gotten one
extra year for the Covid waiver. LINK
Someone get on the phone to Duke, maybe NCAA will grant the extra year now given the above guy was eligible despite pro competition.
NCAA has also begin granting eligibility to other athletes who have played professionally.
And one other basketball player also just won a similar favorable ruling and gets another year of eligibility - Chicago native Rashaun Agee
 
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This just gets worse as far as allowing pro players to now come back and compete un college. There are no rules or restrictions anymore because the NCAA has no backbone. They are too chicken sh-t to fight anything.
 
agree- NCAA is exhausted trying to fight all these lawsuits and a lot of these players, unless they have NBA potential, can actually make more in NIL money in college than they would make in the G-League or overseas. Would love for Duke Deen to give it a try.
 
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Da Coach said:
The NCAA is now allowing players who have played professionally to be able to go back and play at the Division I level-
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...ormer-g-league-player-thierry-darlan-eligible


"NCAA grants eligibility to a player who played professionally for 2 years"
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Oregon says hold my beer....
as they somehow convince NCAA to grant immediate eligibility and then sign a 2025 guy who has already played THREE FULL YEARS in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA)
21 year old Wei Lin played three seasons averaging 21.6 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 5 asst, 1.4 steals, 34.4% on 3-pt and 90% on FT's
He led the team in assists but was 2nd on the team in scoring to former NBA'er and UCLA grad, TJ Leaf.
He also was a TOP-10 pick in the G-League Draft, and had a couple of other familiar Americans on his Chinese team, the Nanjing Monkey Kings,
Tacko Fall & Willie Cauley-Stein.
 
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Here's another one -
guy who played the LAST THREE YEARS in the NBA G-League now is allowed to commit to an NCAA Division I team-
LINK
 
There have now been multiple former G-League players who have been granted NCAA eligibility. And many are now expecting the floodgates to open, since many of the G-League players can earn more money in NIL playing Division I college ball than they earn in the G-League.
Here is a thread on X.com explaining this new trend-
www.x.com/TiptonEdits/status/1980794420371845193
 
Just happened again...
22 year old G-League veteran who is currently playing his 3rd season in the G-League with the Westchester Knicks
(plus he has also played for two different pro teams in Egypt & Lithuania)
has just been deemed eligible by NCAA and will enroll and play for BYU, and have three years of eligibility remaining
 
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Just happened again...
22 year old G-League veteran who is currently playing his 3rd season in the G-League with the Westchester Knicks
(plus he has also played for two different pro teams in Egypt & Lithuania)
has just been deemed eligible by NCAA and will enroll and play for BYU, and have three years of eligibility remaining
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I dont understand the reasoning on that other than being stupid
 
yet another puzzler...

James Nnaji was drafted in the NBA Draft of 2023 - 2 1/2 yrs ago... and altho his signing rights were traded around,
nobody every made an offer he felt was acceptible, so he never signed with any NBA team.
He has already played professionally for almost 3 years (G-League and overseas), and is almost 21 1/2 years old.

The NCAA just ruled him eligible with four full years of eligibility, so he has signed with Baylor and can play the rest of this season,
with three more year of eligibility.

www.on3.com

7-foot center and former NBA Draft pick James Nnaji commits to Baylor

7-foot center James Nnaji, the No. 31 overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft, has committed to Baylor, a source told On3.
www.on3.com www.on3.com

It's only a matter of time until they let guys who are cut form their NBA team to return to college and be eligible.
 
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I think Malevy’s current contract-
A two- way NBA Contract for about $500K
Makes it a litttle unlikely we could land him
 
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