Greg Brown III - Supposed to announce on April 24

[Revolution512 1487]

15 hours ago, Dr. Beeper said:

So I played high school ball with Axtell and Mihm. My summer league team consisted of Chico and a bunch of brothers. I was the one white kid on the team. Chico is a great dude. I played in games against Clack, Marty Hardy and Stringfellow. Clack and Axtell were far and away the best players I ever played with. It wasn’t close. Chico had more athleticism than Axtell, but not much. His game in HS was truly KD-esque. Before you think that comparison is ridiculous, consider the HS level competition of CenTex basketball. His game was more athletic than people realized and he was our 2-guard. 

In terms of raw athleticism combined with skill, I’ve never seen someone like Clack. We feared him; all of Austin did. He was that good. 

Marty was a terrific baseball player as a youth too, not sure when he switched to basketball full time. Roger Roesler played at Balcones back then as well, those two guys looked like grown men at age 12. Our 11-12 all-star team came close to making it out of Waco. That’s my csb

[Pato del Muerto 52499]

13 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

He might come to Texas. We are the favorite for a reason. Based on following his recruitment as well as his dad's comments, if they don't choose to go to the highest bidder then I really believe he chooses Texas. He's going to college for exactly one year, and his family isn't hurting for money. Shaka started recruiting him when he was in 8th grade and has a great relationship with the entire family, all of whom would like to be able to watch Greg play in person without having to travel to Lexington or Memphis. I'll be a little surprised if he doesn't choose Texas. 

Highest bidder shouldn’t really be a big deal for a lottery pick a year later who can get money under the table from an agent after a handshake deal. 

[Revolution512 1487]

Yeah nobody likes free money 

[HtownHorn 14683]

19 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

Brown is far and away the best player to ever come out of the Austin area. Athletically he's like a 6'8" Kerwin Roach, but he actually has real basketball skill. Handle, passing, shooting, driving- he can do it all on offense. Our team next year will probably have five guys averaging double digits (or close to it), so he may not light up the world like KD, but he has a very well-rounded offensive game and should be an impact player from day one, assuming we change our offense and he's not just standing around the 3-point line like a ball rack. His one year in college should be full of highlight reel plays; just wish he got some real coaching/winning to go along with it. 

Which absolutely means he will stand around the 3 point line waiting for the ball with under 5 seconds on the shot clock. The typical Shaka offense.

[Revolution512 1487]

Lots of combinations, if we waste Brown as a pick and pop 4......lord help us. I could see minutes at the 3 if he can keep improving his ball handling.

PG: Coleman

SG: Jones

SF: Williams

PF: Brown

Center: Sims

 

A backup 5.....

PG: Ramey

SG: Febres

SF: Liddell, Cunningham

PF: Cunningham, Hepa, Hamm

Center: Kai Jones, Will Baker.

[Revolution512 1487]

If you’re gonna run a 3 guard lineup and not play Febres much that leaves some tough rotations for a coach whose proven he’s absolutely shitty at figuring that out. 

[orangecat92 306]

I believe this is a 5 star player.  If that is correct, if I  was a 5 star parent who could go to any university for one year and have a 90%+ chance of going in the first round of the draft the next year, I would not give a hometown discount to the horns.  I would simply look for the coach that has the best reputation for developing players.  My second consideration would be playing time.  If I look at the top two considerations, Texas wins for playing time, and that's it.  If he is getting NBA lottery money he can pay to fly his parents anywhere in the country his first year in the NBA.  

In short, I think we get Shaka and no GBIII if the parents look at developing players for the next level.  

What is our record next year without GB?  Depending upon the creampuffs in November December, I say about the same as this year.  Then 8 and 10 in conference . 

Other secondary consideration, does GB want to play before a nearly empty Erwin Center in conference games in February?    

[Goo Punch 4275]

if he comes to Texas we're gonna be pretty good next year. as LonghornMatt said earlier, even Shaka can't fuck next year's team to the point where we miss the tourney (assuming GB III is a Horn). We should be a tournament team without him in all honesty. With a good coach we could even be a preseason top 20-25 team. We return everyone from a bubble team and will actually have an experienced, athletic, and deep roster next year. Add GB III and that's a really good looking team, HC notwithstanding. All of this is to say that the FEC will have 12,000+ throughout conference play if GB III joins and we play to something like 70% of our potential. I know that's a big "if", but GB III himself would be a pretty big attraction. We should definitely have better crowds next year. 

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

On 3/28/2020 at 6:44 PM, Dr. Beeper said:

Chico struggled much more than anyone thought with the transition to the college level. In high school, that ‘94-‘95 season, it was he and Clack dominating the Austin HS scene and it was really cool. Stringfellow was a competent big, but those two were really special. Again, I played ball with him all summer and the dude was crazy good. 

College players were more of a challenge for him, but he carved out a nice niche for himself as a starter and role player and defensive guy. 

Chico struggled in college because he enjoyed it waaaay too much.  They didn't call him the mayor of Austin for nothing.  Dude loved to have a good time and gained a lot of bad weight during college years as a result. Still consider him a friend til this day.  

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

12 hours ago, Catdaddyhorn said:

Chico struggled in college because he enjoyed it waaaay too much.  They didn't call him the mayor of Austin for nothing.  Dude loved to have a good time and gained a lot of bad weight during college years as a result. Still consider him a friend til this day.  

Yeah, just to clarify-- there was nothing wrong with Chico's college career. He was a good player, had a decent career. He just didn't end up being the kind of difference-maker people hoped he'd be when he signed. 

[Goo Punch 4275]

 

Courtney Ramey left the comment "Lob City 👀". Let's hope so. 

[Js1 85340]

Well March was like, 8 months long. So we’ll all be dead by the time 4/24 happens 

[Ignatius 4017]

11 hours ago, SwanderedTalent said:

Yeah, just to clarify-- there was nothing wrong with Chico's college career. He was a good player, had a decent career. He just didn't end up being the kind of difference-maker people hoped he'd be when he signed. 

He saved our asses from being Coppin State’s second upset victim in 1997...

[Goo Punch 4275]

 

[Guest Lobo]

On 3/30/2020 at 8:35 PM, Goo Punch said:

 

Courtney Ramey left the comment "Lob City 👀". Let's hope so. 

Somebody tell Greg that in April, it's not CST, it's CDT.  And we hope the teach him the difference here at the University of Texas

[Goo Punch 4275]

other notable members of the "Hedgehog Fam": Jasxson Hayes and KJ Adams. fwiw.

[Goo Punch 4275]

Andrew Jones

Greg Brown

Donovan Williams

Royce Hamm

Kai Jones

 

is that the most athletic lineup in all of college basketball? I say yes. we probably wouldn't want to run this particular lineup a ton during conference or anything, but still- if we add GB III then we have one of the most athletic teams in the entire country next year. 

[Revolution512 1487]

No Sims?

[Goo Punch 4275]

yep, that's another ridiculous athlete. take out Williams or Hamm for Sims and you still have probably the most athletic lineup in America.

[Goo Punch 4275]

lol, any reason for the neg spree Rex? @Dr. Beeper

[TaxMaster 6]

The Athletic published a piece on GBIII today. Doesn't really discuss where he's headed, more of a piece illustrating him, his background, and his relationship with is dad. Paywall'd, but posted in my post after this one.

https://theathletic.com/1738044/2020/04/13/greg-brown-could-remain-austins-hometown-hero-but-the-top-recruit-has-options/

Edited April 13, 2020 by TaxMaster

[TaxMaster 6]

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Greg Brown could remain Austin’s hometown hero, but the top recruit has options

By Brian Hamilton 4h ago 1 

AUSTIN, Texas — Among the first assignments on this particular morning at Vandegrift High School: two-ball dribbling. From sideline to sideline and back, groups of two or three taking turns and filling the gym with rhythmic thuds before the clock on the wall hits 8 o’clock. A series of shooting stations follows without much of a break, soundtracked by Galantis’ “Peanut Butter Jelly” on a speaker. There’s only silence when the bell rings at 8:40. It’s a full stop for the Pledge of Allegiance, the Texas Pledge and brief announcements that end with a thank you and encouragement to have a great day, and go Vipers.

With that, the balls start bouncing again.

Everything is thoroughly and unsuspiciously ordinary, until it’s not. This is the way Greg Brown III decided it should be. He’s sweating through a humdrum high school practice with a bunch of dudes he has played with for years, some of them since middle school. In the era of academies and prep school super-squads, it’s increasingly the last place you’d look for a five-star prospect with a gilded pro future. But he chose this. And in doing so, he chose to accommodate interludes of the not-ordinary, which on this day manifests as Bruce Pearl and his Auburn staff walking in midway through the workout, after calling Vandegrift’s coach around 10 p.m. the night before to say they’d be flying in for a visit.

When Brown arrived here on this unremarkable late February morning, the whole plan was news to him. “It is still crazy,” he says of the attention, sitting at a courtside table while his out-of-town suitors await their audience. “They’ll bring their whole staff, and it’s like, dang, that’s a lot of people in one gym.”

Quite a few people, in fact, are interested in what he chooses next. On April 24, one of the last available gems in the 2020 recruiting cycle — and the No. 19 player in The Athletic 40, our ranking of all prospects across all high school classes — will make his college choice known. The finalists are Auburn, Kentucky, Memphis, Michigan and Texas. Whoever signs Brown III will get a 6-9 forward who’s still growing, in pretty much every sense, and whose multi-tool skill set offers the promise of infusing any lineup with a walking mismatch. A commitment from a McDonald’s All-American might have deeper resonance for each program, sure, particularly the one that operates about 15 miles down the road. But his play, in all reality, is the thing.

And nobody is entirely sure what Brown will do in this sense either, which is the source of the enthrallment. “Every year, he’s gotten twice as good as he was the year before, and I don’t see that stopping,” Vandegrift coach Cliff Ellis says. “I can’t wait to see him when his life is gym, weight room and cafeteria. When that becomes his life, he’ll be hell to deal with.”

How acutely Brown’s past informs his future, whether the sum of his experiences and decisions amounts to a clue or a red herring, only amplifies the intrigue. It’s easy to say he’s not always followed the predictable path, but that also depends on your working definition of predictable.

He came to Austin at the age of 10, moving in with his father, Greg II, after living in the Dallas area with his mother and twin sister. “He started giving her some issues,” Brown II says, and the former defensive back for Texas and the Denver Broncos swiftly moved to occupy his son, whether his son liked it or not. Brown III had not played much basketball to that point, at least not with any conviction. But his height — he was at least a few inches past 5 feet already — dictated the plan. A hoops trajectory became preeminent. Within a year or two, the younger Brown was running hills and stairs too, even in the dead of miserably hot Texas summers, even when he’d concluded that pursuing basketball was not worth running said hills and stairs.

Those complaints that he didn’t want to play anymore were met with a shrug. I have no problem with that, the father would tell his son. But we’re still going to do this work. “To be honest,” Brown III says now, “I didn’t really like basketball when I started.” It wasn’t until he reached seventh grade, in fact, that he began to prod his father to start the day’s training. By then Brown III was even a more-than-willing participant in early morning workouts, driving with his father to the indoor court at The Verandah, an apartment complex where one of his dad’s cousins lived. He drilled everything from his weak hand to wrong-foot finishes to pull-ups starting at 5:45 a.m., before returning home to shower and head to school. “You don’t really know whether you like a sport or not until you get good at it,” Brown Jr. says. “Once Greg started seeing success, it started almost becoming like a drug.”

Foundations aren’t meant to shift much, even as you build upon them, and so it went with an emerging star in the hills outside Austin. Brown III had made friends, naturally, over the first few years with his dad, playing alongside of them on those sixth- and seventh-grade basketball teams. Changing course and, say, enrolling at a high school with a stronger basketball tradition and track record would’ve defeated the purpose on a couple of fronts; one, he wouldn’t be around his guys. And, two, summers were for loading up with similarly gifted players and playing with top talent on the grassroots circuit. The challenge at Vandegrift — finding a way to win without the benefit of Division I talent at every other position — was the entire point.

And it would be a challenge, competing in the largest classification in Texas high school athletics, facing off with teams such as Austin’s Westlake High, which could deploy multiple future Division I players. “He’s still the big fish in a big pond,” Ellis says. Brown III averaged 17.2 points and 10.7 rebounds as a freshman for a Vandegrift team that finished five games below .500. When his senior season ended with a regional quarterfinal playoff loss on March 3, he had led Vandegrift to a 33-3 record while finishing his prep career with 3,007 points and, not long after, earning Gatorade Player of the Year honors in Texas. “I figure if you can (win) with kids that aren’t very talented, what happens when you get with guys who can actually play?” Brown Jr. says. “How special would that be?”

It was actually the dynamic the Browns confronted before his final high school campaign, and it is one that can and will be stripped for meaning until April 24. Greg Brown III could have played almost anywhere else last winter. He could have enrolled at a powerhouse prep school, as so many other top-shelf talents do, for one high-profile tuneup before the one-year stopover on a college campus. He could have avoided one more season of teams ganging up on him and doing anything inside and outside the rules to frustrate and unsettle an otherwise fairly undeniable force: untying his shoelaces at the free-throw line, pulling his hair and his jersey, touching him, uh, everywhere. “When I say everywhere, I mean everywhere,” Brown III says. “It’s weird.”

He was, in his father’s estimation, “almost out the door” to IMG Academy in Florida. But one thought kept tugging at him.

“My teammates, basically,” Brown III says. “They’ve put in so much work for me and I put in so much work for them, we just built a bond. I couldn’t see myself walking away from them. I had to stay here and complete our legacy. This is our last year, and we’re never going to get this back again.”

It doesn’t appear to be an act; inasmuch as anyone can judge from one visit, there seems to be a genuineness to Brown III’s affection for the group and an appreciation of being part of it, albeit a very obviously distinguishable part. He looks at a poster of the Vandegrift seniors hanging on the gym wall and runs through the parts each of them play: Jake Hatch is the dad of the team, he says. Kale Farone is like the little brother. Freddie Southwell and Gabe Rayer are the team goofs, and Brown III can’t decide which is goofier. Jed Willis will “fight anybody at any time,” but he’s also a sort of the Greg Brown Whisperer, pulling Vandegrift’s star aside before every tipoff and reminding him to just do what he does, to stay poised.

They all eat at Pluckers. They all go to each other’s houses and play NBA2K, with Brown III declaring himself the best player and chief smack-talker. They are, if this is to believed, just normal high school dudes who happen to have a potential future lottery pick sitting on the couch. During a ceremony at Vandegrift to commemorate his selection to the McDonald’s All-American Game, Brown III took the microphone and immediately invited his teammates to join him on the floor, and a group hug ensued. “He could walk around here like, I’m better than this, I’m better than y’all,” Ellis says. “It’s nothing like that. This could’ve been a very negative experience. I’ve heard the horror stories about prima donna athletes. He’s not like that at all.”

 

While other top recruits congregate at the major prep schools, Brown instead chose to stay home and be the focus of attention on and off the court at Vandegrift. (Brian Hamilton / The Athletic)

To believe it was all gumdrops and rainbows for four years is to be more than a bit naive, of course. It’s high school, and it’s youth athletics, so there are bound to be strong and hard feelings on all sides along the way. “I probably would’ve slapped the taste out of a couple teammates’ mouths,” Brown Jr. cracks as he thinks back across his son’s high school years, before noting that any time he raised complaints, Brown III would simply reply: Dad, I got it. I’m not worried about it. Even during this final season, Ellis says there was “a little situation” early on that caused the team to “get testy,” without going into detail. A couple of conversations set the record straight and, voila, a 33-win season followed. “They’re really good kids,” Brown Jr. says. “He really enjoys those guys, he really embraced them, and really embraced the whole thing, man.”

Where all of this takes Greg Brown III is one more choice he has to make, but it should be no surprise what he is prioritizing.

“Relationships is one of the big things with us,” he says.

He benefits from a clear-eyed view of a process that’s coming to an end, thanks to a mother and father who both were college athletes and both experienced the recruitment song-and-dance. (Tonya Wallace, his mother, competed in track and field at Texas.) All of the sweet-talking and promises from coaches is laundered through a reality check, Brown Jr. laughing as he says it’s almost like judging “who lied to us the least.” He has told his son that college coaches want to keep their jobs above all, and they do that by winning, and however they think Greg Brown III will help them achieve that goal is how they’ll use him on the floor, no matter what they’ve said.

Perhaps it’s why the object of everyone’s affection, in this case, doesn’t even bother with proclamations about what he wants, basketball-wise, at the next level. He knows it might not matter as much as he’d like it to. “I can be coached any way,” Brown III says. “I can fit into any system.”

Nor are the family ties to Texas superseding objective appraisals of all five finalists, at least according to the appraisers. “I just told him: I couldn’t care less,” Brown Jr. says. “I did what was best for me at time. What I need you to do is what’s best for you.” The focus is the endgame, and the endgame is what Greg Brown III once told his father: He wanted to be an NBA legend. And if that is the case, then college is a means to an end, and sentimentality simply can’t factor into the decision. “They want me to be happy wherever I go,” Brown III says of his parents. “I just can’t put that factor in my decision. Because I gotta make the best decision for me and what I want to achieve.”

Wherever he goes, there won’t be one or two players hanging off his limbs on every possession. There won’t be junk defenses to clog up the spacing and limit the effectiveness of his speed and ability to handle the ball. He will not see what he has seen for four years running because there will be, as his high school coach puts it, other Greg Browns out there. Everyone is waiting expectantly to find out where Greg Brown III is going to go, yes. But it’s not about the vigil or the destination, at least not entirely. It’s about what he can be once he gets there.

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[SwanderedTalent 5761]

ah, ya gotta love that straight from the mouth of an alumnus

I'm not saying he's wrong about how to make the decision, but it would be preferable to hear him say "Obviously as a Longhorn I hope he picks UT, but only if that's what's best for him" or something along those lines. Not "I have no preference, Michigan, Memphis, Texas, it's all the same". 

 “I just told him: I couldn’t care less,” Brown Jr. says. “I did what was best for me at time. What I need you to do is what’s best for you.”

[Goo Punch 4275]

not to mention that Mama Brown and Uncle Brown ran track and played basketball respectively at Texas. 

Edited April 13, 2020 by Goo Punch

[Go Pokes 979]

1 hour ago, Goo Punch said:

not to mention that Mama Brown and Uncle Brown ran track and played basketball respectively at Texas. 

I'm kind of hoping his dad holds the most sway

 

https://pistolsfiringblog.com/five-star-greg-browns-father-likes-idea-of-pairing-son-with-cade-cunningham/

[Go Pokes 979]

Our guys going to start putting the heat on Greg Brown. 

https://twitter.com/DonovanW_/status/1250303311388880899?s=20

 

[Lerka Lerka 1087]

Get your final offer in folks /dad

[Goo Punch 4275]

Are Okie State and the G League legit options at this point, after GB III has had a "solid final five" for so long now? I sure hope not.

 

[Patrick Bateman 3916]

19 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

Are Okie State and the G League legit options at this point, after GB III has had a "solid final five" for so long now? I sure hope not.

 

Jalen Green is probably doing it.....

 

[Goo Punch 4275]

fuuuuuu.....

if GB III goes pro out of nowhere he's going to piss off all of Austin, Texas. 

[LTtxfan 49188]

11 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

fuuuuuu.....

if GB III goes pro out of nowhere he's going to piss off all of Austin, Texas. 

 

 

[Lat22 4014]

That’s fine with me. Nothing has turned me off on college basketball more than the one and dones. 

[Goo Punch 4275]

welp, he's tripping if he doesn't take $400,000 over a year languishing under Shaka Smart. Bye bye Greg Brown. We hardly knew ye.

[SA-KC_Horn 1295]

How in the fuck is G-League even an option? 

What the hell am I am missing here.?

[Wanker Bob 379]

1 hour ago, SA-KC_Horn said:

How in the fuck is G-League even an option? 

What the hell am I am missing here.?

Don't gotta play no skool yo

[TheBryMan81 2513]

2 hours ago, SA-KC_Horn said:

How in the fuck is G-League even an option? 

What the hell am I am missing here.?

Back in 2018, the NBA announced that starting this year, high school graduates would be able to play one year in the G league for $125,000 before being draft eligible instead of going to college:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/sports/nba-g-league-one-and-done.html

However, that structure was recently revamped in order to convince top players not to go overseas to play professionally before they were draft eligible (ala Lamelo Ball)

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29043828/sources-top-high-school-player-jalen-green-enter-nba-g-league-pathway

Jalen Green, one of the top 2020 prospects is expected to make around $500,000 plus will be able to sign shoe and other endorsement deals. They will get placed on a Select Team, probably in SoCal, unaffiliated with a current NBA squad, that will focus on development, mentorship, life-skills, etc and will play against G-league teams (that don't count for G league standings), NBA academy teams, foreign teams, etc.

Excerpts:

"NBA commissioner Adam Silver and G League president Shareef Abdur-Rahim have worked to eliminate two massive hurdles to convincing players uninterested in college basketball to pass on the lucrative National Basketball League of Australia by providing a massive salary increase and a structure that doesn't include playing full time in the G League."

"...yearlong developmental program with G League oversight that will include professional coaching, top prospects and veteran players who will combine training and exhibition competitions against the likes of G League teams, foreign national teams and NBA academies throughout the world, sources said."

"The season could include 10 to 12 games against G League teams that wouldn't count in standings, sources said. The primary objective will be assimilation and growth into the NBA on several levels -- from playing to the teaching of life skills.

The salary bonus structure in Green's contract, for example, is expected to include financial incentives for games played, completing community events and attending life skills programs coordinated by the G League's oversight of the program, sources said.

The NBA's plan is to stock this team with veteran pro players who would be willing to balance mentorship of Green and other prospects with the personal opportunities that might emerge because of the intense NBA scouting exposure that will come with these teams."

"Without the restrictions of NCAA amateurism rules, players are free to hire agents, profit from likenesses and pursue marketing deals from sneaker companies worth hundreds of thousands of dollars."

[Revolution512 1487]

5 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

welp, he's tripping if he doesn't take $400,000 over a year languishing under Shaka Smart. Bye bye Greg Brown. We hardly knew ye.

400k really isn’t shit especially after taxes and an agent get theirs. 

[Napoleon 8682]

2 hours ago, SA-KC_Horn said:

How in the fuck is G-League even an option? 

What the hell am I am missing here.?

 

8 minutes ago, TheBryMan81 said:

Back in 2018, the NBA announced that starting this year, high school graduates would be able to play one year in the G league for $125,000 before being draft eligible instead of going to college:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/sports/nba-g-league-one-and-done.html

However, that structure was recently revamped in order to convince top players not to go overseas to play professionally before they were draft eligible (ala Lamelo Ball)

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29043828/sources-top-high-school-player-jalen-green-enter-nba-g-league-pathway

Jalen Green, one of the top 2020 prospects is expected to make around $500,000 plus will be able to sign shoe and other endorsement deals. They will get placed on a Select Team, probably in SoCal, unaffiliated with a current NBA squad, that will focus on development, mentorship, life-skills, etc and will play against G-league teams (that don't count for G league standings), NBA academy teams, foreign teams, etc.

Excerpts:

"NBA commissioner Adam Silver and G League president Shareef Abdur-Rahim have worked to eliminate two massive hurdles to convincing players uninterested in college basketball to pass on the lucrative National Basketball League of Australia by providing a massive salary increase and a structure that doesn't include playing full time in the G League."

"...yearlong developmental program with G League oversight that will include professional coaching, top prospects and veteran players who will combine training and exhibition competitions against the likes of G League teams, foreign national teams and NBA academies throughout the world, sources said."

"The season could include 10 to 12 games against G League teams that wouldn't count in standings, sources said. The primary objective will be assimilation and growth into the NBA on several levels -- from playing to the teaching of life skills.

The salary bonus structure in Green's contract, for example, is expected to include financial incentives for games played, completing community events and attending life skills programs coordinated by the G League's oversight of the program, sources said.

The NBA's plan is to stock this team with veteran pro players who would be willing to balance mentorship of Green and other prospects with the personal opportunities that might emerge because of the intense NBA scouting exposure that will come with these teams."

"Without the restrictions of NCAA amateurism rules, players are free to hire agents, profit from likenesses and pursue marketing deals from sneaker companies worth hundreds of thousands of dollars."

Considering there is very likely to be either a shortened season or no season at all, why not make a half of a million (with all contracts) or more while bypassing skool and not having to hide the money like it was stolen booty.

You don't get to "build your brand", but that will take care of itself after a season or two in the NBA.

[TheBryMan81 2513]

2 minutes ago, Revolution512 said:

400k really isn’t shit especially after taxes and an agent get theirs. 

More than he'd make playing for Texas.

Plus the potential for a shoe deal and endorsement contracts.

[Wanker Bob 379]

What kind of shoe deal or endorsements would a kid nobody outside of big time basketball junkies has ever heard of get? 

I just happened into this thread and I'd never heard of Green or Brown before today. If you're a top guy and want to make a name for yourself ala Zion and don't mind college courses for a semester then college is still the better bet. Nobody will ever hear of you in the G league. If all you want is a chance to prepare for the NBA and adamantly refuse to do a semester of college class work then take this route. 

[TheBryMan81 2513]

2 hours ago, Wanker Bob said:

What kind of shoe deal or endorsements would a kid nobody outside of big time basketball junkies has ever heard of get? 

I just happened into this thread and I'd never heard of Green or Brown before today. If you're a top guy and want to make a name for yourself ala Zion and don't mind college courses for a semester then college is still the better bet. Nobody will ever hear of you in the G league. If all you want is a chance to prepare for the NBA and adamantly refuse to do a semester of college class work then take this route. 

Shoe companies will sign future lottery picks.  Jalen Green is already considered to be the 2021 #1 pick and would've been the #1 pick this year.  I think others probably project Brown to be a top 5-10 pick.  These guys get very competitive offers for endorsements because of their status and publicity as a lottery pick.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2887051-report-jalen-green-likely-to-get-7-figure-shoe-contract-after-joining-g-league

"According to Nick DePaula of ESPN, the guard will have "several offers" from companies with a contract that will top seven figures per year. He is set to sign with Aaron Goodwin, who negotiated rookie shoe deals with LeBron James, Dwight Howard and Kevin Durant."

 

[Kermit 3156]

At least now these kids don’t have to pretend to go to school. Get your money, young man.

[Goo Punch 4275]

6 hours ago, Revolution512 said:

400k really isn’t shit especially after taxes and an agent get theirs. 

400k plus endorsement deals plus being a pro basketball player >>>>>>>>> spending a few months learning all kinds of new and meaningless platitudes under Shaka Smart for $0/the threat of suspension should you dare profit from your own likeness. 

[Goo Punch 4275]

also lol at the statement in general. "400k isn't shit." lol, wow, someone sure seems to be claiming to be shaggy elite. 

[Herpa Derpa 6126]

4 hours ago, Wanker Bob said:

What kind of shoe deal or endorsements would a kid nobody outside of big time basketball junkies has ever heard of get? 

I just happened into this thread and I'd never heard of Green or Brown before today. If you're a top guy and want to make a name for yourself ala Zion and don't mind college courses for a semester then college is still the better bet. Nobody will ever hear of you in the G league. If all you want is a chance to prepare for the NBA and adamantly refuse to do a semester of college class work then take this route. 

You are wrong on so many levels.  But at least you admit your opinion is rooted in complete ignorance, so it can be properly dismissed.

[Helobious 9454]

7 hours ago, Revolution512 said:

400k really isn’t shit especially after taxes and an agent get theirs. 

This. Say he pockets $90,000 after all of that (Which is a very low estimate). Chump change for most 18 year olds, right? 

[Kermit 3156]

58 minutes ago, Helobious said:

This. Say he pockets $90,000 after all of that (Which is a very low estimate). Chump change for most 18 year olds, right? 

It is if you play for Kentucky.

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

I am not arguing Brown should pick college ball over the G League, or that playing for a shithead like Shaka Smart is particularly enjoyable.

But a lot of people would trade $400,000 over the course of one year of their life for a year of being an 18-yr old college kid. If you're Greg Brown, you'll get about 40 chances to make $400,000 (or $90,000 if we want to fixate on that number). You get one chance to be a college freshman, doing college freshman stuff-- which was a fucking blast when I did it, I can only imagine it's even more fun when you're semi-famous as a varsity athlete. 

Of course, if we're dumb enough to shut down college campuses for an entire semester or academic year, then his decision is an obvious one.

[txhorns 2409]

$400k isn't some game changer for a kid about to make millions.  I'd take a year of college at Texas over $400k in this situation.

[Goo Punch 4275]

35 minutes ago, txhorns said:

$400k isn't some game changer for a kid about to make millions.  I'd take a year of college at Texas over $400k in this situation.

Maybe it's because I was still in eighth grade, but when I was 18 years old there's zero chance you could have gotten me to turn down $400,000 plus endorsements plus becoming a professional just to go to college for a few months to play a season that might not even happen.