HS Baseball Phenom leaves after Sophomore year... Thoughts

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Originally Posted by mikejet

It's going to be interesting this year for the NBA Draft because there will be a guy who went straight to Europe after HS and then will be in this years draft. There's a lot of differing opinions on how it will be handled.

Yeah, Brandon Jennings who played in Italy. Jennings will be definitely be a lottery pick and could even possibly go top 5 and made over $3.5 million in salary and endorsements for his one year in Italy. However, he didn't play well and spoke about being unhappy in Italy. He complained that sometimes he didn't get paid on time. If he had been draft eligible last year out of high school he would have been a top 5 pick for sure. I think a lot of people would rather get paid under the table rather than going overseas. This could get more difficult now that Tim Floyd isn't at USC anymore and therefore can't pay players. If the NBA changes the age limit to 20 like David Stern wants you could see more people going to Europe.