Top High School Basketball Player Signs $1.2 Million Contract In China
Forced to wait a year to enter the NBA Draft, No. 1-ranked high school guard Emmanuel Mudiay has decided to play professionally in China instead of going to college, according to Business Insider.
Mudiay signed a one-year, $1.2-million contract with the Guangdong Southern Tigers, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports. He's also insured in case he gets injured.
Since the NBA instituted a rule in 2006 that players can only enter the draft if they are one year removed from high school, few top prospects have opted to play professionally overseas.
Source: Yahoo Sports
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Since the NBA instituted a rule in 2006 that players can only enter the draft if they are one year removed from high school, few top prospects have opted to play professionally overseas.
Source: Yahoo Sports
Top High School Basketball Player Signs $1.2 Million Contract In China
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If he's over 18, he's legally an adult. If he feels it is in his best interests to take 1 million to play for a year overseas, rather than go making money for a college, most likely not graduate and take some bs classes to maintain eligibility, I see no issue. College does not guarantee the same success these days as it used to. And it's not often you get an opportunity to earn 1 mil in a year for any job.
ReplyDeleteIs 1.2 million dollars/work experience/traveling overseas better than college education?
ReplyDeleteWhere is all the people complaining about how much a "free education" from college is worth. For those of you who don't understand it's called opportunity cost.
Even if a scholarship was worth 200k over 4 years
In 1 year: 600k(after taxes) 50k earned(scholarship value)
He's made a choice for 550k thousand dollars. Would you skip your freshmen year for 550k dollars? Nothing you can't go back for later after.
Yeah, go to college. Get none of the money you could earn overseas. Get punished and publicly flogged if you accept any money for arguably what your worth (boosters).
NCAA doesn't help with insurance policies and almost no medical coverage for long term injuries.
Smart kid. He even got himself an insurance policy in case of injury. Good for this kid to get paid while he can.
U don't really need an education 2 play basketball other then Math so what is the point of college 2 play basketball?. in the end a lot of young men so called teen are in the hopes of making it in the NBA but come 2 find out they are not wanted I say this kid is doing it REAL. Basketball is a sport like all sports education is for someone that is looking 2 be in business or in political government. I say leave sports & education out of the equation they both don't mixed..
ReplyDeleteI never understood that.
there are people out there that has natural talent 2 sport like really born in there blood & nobody recognizes that so there hopes go 2 waste & the ones that are in the sports most of them are TRASH & are backed up by key player's like FAMILY or someone that has connection 2 get a clown in some sport mostly some rich kid that knows nothing of how it feels 2 sweat day in day out & be broke in life.
I say good for that boy!!. take any money u can get & learn as he goes by the time he comes back 2 the US he won't need 2 be in college for the NBA if they see he's good just take him skip school let him learn the real game end of story..