Lavar Ball to launch Junior Basketball Association, to pay top 100 rank players

[CelticD]

F the NCAA. Anything that stops that organization from farming these kids is fine by me.

how dare the NCAA give full ride scholarships along with free room/board as well as free books All for being able to bounce a ball and jump higher than me

Why are you trivializing the dedication and commitment it takes to play NBA basketball? I feel like people constantly underestimate what it means to be able to "bounce a ball and jump higher". To be able to keep yourself in shape, keep on top of your diet, to handle the busy flying schedules, all the mandated hours of community service, intense practices, and being able to play 40+ minutes on any given night if the coach calls for it, even through injury in certain situations. I don't think that's something to trivialize.

NCAA isn't payin anybody's bills. Scholarships along with free room and board aren't bringing these players' mothers or siblings or friends out of poverty. Just give them a fast track from high school to the NBA. Forget holding them back 1 more year just to line the pockets of these colleges.

What?

College is certainly not the end all be all, but to say that a full ride scholarship doesn't provide a person the opportunity to better themselves financially seems wild to me.

It isn't the schools fault if the players don't take advantage of what is offered.

For 1 year? No it doesn't do any of that at all.

whos being offered a 1 year scholarship?

And since when was it the NCAAs responsibility to put students  uncles out of poverty?

NBA-bound prospects are only doing 1 year of college. That's where the "1 year of scholarship" is coming from.

The NCAA doesn't have to help anybody out of poverty, but kids shouldn't have to make the NCAA millions of dollars a year either when they could just be playing right outta high school.

Then they can play overseas, in the g league, or in the lavar league now.

16-17 year olds are not going to want to play basketball in a completely different part of the world. G-League isn't a bad idea but they don't have the same buzz as the NCAA since they don't milk children for their talents, and thus don't get any real money but neither one of those has to be alternatives if the NBA allows for teams to draft out of high school.

If you have the talent to ball outta high school, then they should be able to do it.

[CelticsElite]

F the NCAA. Anything that stops that organization from farming these kids is fine by me.

how dare the NCAA give full ride scholarships along with free room/board as well as free books All for being able to bounce a ball and jump higher than me

Why are you trivializing the dedication and commitment it takes to play NBA basketball? I feel like people constantly underestimate what it means to be able to "bounce a ball and jump higher". To be able to keep yourself in shape, keep on top of your diet, to handle the busy flying schedules, all the mandated hours of community service, intense practices, and being able to play 40+ minutes on any given night if the coach calls for it, even through injury in certain situations. I don't think that's something to trivialize.

NCAA isn't payin anybody's bills. Scholarships along with free room and board aren't bringing these players' mothers or siblings or friends out of poverty. Just give them a fast track from high school to the NBA. Forget holding them back 1 more year just to line the pockets of these colleges.

What?

College is certainly not the end all be all, but to say that a full ride scholarship doesn't provide a person the opportunity to better themselves financially seems wild to me.

It isn't the schools fault if the players don't take advantage of what is offered.

For 1 year? No it doesn't do any of that at all.

whos being offered a 1 year scholarship?

And since when was it the NCAAs responsibility to put students  uncles out of poverty?

NBA-bound prospects are only doing 1 year of college. That's where the "1 year of scholarship" is coming from.

The NCAA doesn't have to help anybody out of poverty, but kids shouldn't have to make the NCAA millions of dollars a year either when they could just be playing right outta high school.

they're not kids first off, they're adults. Adults have responsibilities. Lets make that clear. Adults know what the benefits of 4 years of college are. adults make all their decisions

If they leave after 1 year, how is that the NCAA fault? No matter what, the nba millions will be more lucrative than any other league or association ability to pay, so why blame the NCAA inability to make someone’s uncle rich?

[Moranis]

F the NCAA. Anything that stops that organization from farming these kids is fine by me.

how dare the NCAA give full ride scholarships along with free room/board as well as free books All for being able to bounce a ball and jump higher than me

Why are you trivializing the dedication and commitment it takes to play NBA basketball? I feel like people constantly underestimate what it means to be able to "bounce a ball and jump higher". To be able to keep yourself in shape, keep on top of your diet, to handle the busy flying schedules, all the mandated hours of community service, intense practices, and being able to play 40+ minutes on any given night if the coach calls for it, even through injury in certain situations. I don't think that's something to trivialize.

NCAA isn't payin anybody's bills. Scholarships along with free room and board aren't bringing these players' mothers or siblings or friends out of poverty. Just give them a fast track from high school to the NBA. Forget holding them back 1 more year just to line the pockets of these colleges.

What?

College is certainly not the end all be all, but to say that a full ride scholarship doesn't provide a person the opportunity to better themselves financially seems wild to me.

It isn't the schools fault if the players don't take advantage of what is offered.

For 1 year? No it doesn't do any of that at all.

whos being offered a 1 year scholarship?

And since when was it the NCAAs responsibility to put students  uncles out of poverty?

Scholarships are only for 1 year.  The school doesn't have to renew it annually, though 99% of the time they do that.

[OhioGreen]

Think its a good idea, but would go further and let all kids go pro if good enough out of high school!  Vast majority of college athletes aren't smart enough to get accepted to college scholastically anyway.  Let these kids try going pro, failing, and ending up on the streets dealin' drugs like they would anyway!  No more or less would succeed than if they went to college just because they were good at sports.
Leave college to kids that WANT an education and a future.  Parents need to express to kids that an education is closer to a guarantee of being a success, while sports is a lottery ticket, at best!

[makaveli]

Can't believe that a lot of people hate the NCAA and the program...the whole world looks up to your youth organisation. In Europe, you turn 19, and you're basically done with playing basketball if you are not good enough to be a pro. You enroll to college and have no real time for full time studying and serious basketball.
It may be corrupt the NCAA, but the point is that that the kids(most of them) get a chance to educate themselves while doing sports for a scholarship.
Yeah, somebody makes a lot of money while they do so, I guess that's something new in the world.

[jambr380]

Can't believe that a lot of people hate the NCAA and the program...the whole world looks up to your youth organisation. In Europe, you turn 19, and you're basically done with playing basketball if you are not good enough to be a pro. You enroll to college and have no real time for full time studying and serious basketball.
It may be corrupt the NCAA, but the point is that that the kids(most of them) get a chance to educate themselves while doing sports for a scholarship.
Yeah, somebody makes a lot of money while they do so, I guess that's something new in the world.

You're certainly not wrong, but I think people are generally speaking about a very small percentage of college athletes who have the ability to make millions going pro out of high school. The majority of these young men and women who receive scholarships (all sports) go on to finish their degrees and I am sure are mostly appreciative of the fact that they got to attend school for free.

Lavar ball may ruin peoples lives because of this

Yeah, my first thought was Trump University (yes, that Trump University who everybody seems to have forgotten all about).

[Big333223]

Can't believe that a lot of people hate the NCAA and the program...the whole world looks up to your youth organisation. In Europe, you turn 19, and you're basically done with playing basketball if you are not good enough to be a pro. You enroll to college and have no real time for full time studying and serious basketball.
It may be corrupt the NCAA, but the point is that that the kids(most of them) get a chance to educate themselves while doing sports for a scholarship.
Yeah, somebody makes a lot of money while they do so, I guess that's something new in the world.

This is a very rose-colored way of looking at how the NCAA does business. The kids who get scholarships have a lot of demands put on them to perform. They aren't being given a gift, they work for their scholarships. And if those players don't perform as expected they can have their scholarships taken away from them midway through a college career they often can't afford to continue to pursue.

On top of that, the NCAA and these colleges make a ton of money off the hard work of these kids and the kids' return is paltry in comparison, if they get anything at all.

[LakersFan_33]

Depends how much exposure and how many scouts he could get. Ultimately, he's just gonna get the crappy players...If you're a good/great prospect, what would you rather have? $100k for one year, or make tens of millions of dollars in the NBA?

[timpiker]

Repeat after me....  he’s a Con Man