Overtime Elite swoops in and pays a couple of prospects more than $1 million; the absurd/sad extortion story at Louisville (College Basketball 05/21)
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Friday's news: a couple of highly rated, five-star prospects in the class of 2023 will commit to playing for Overtime Elite, a fledgling league backed financially by the likes of Kevin Durant, Drake and Jeff Bezos. GP and Norlander open with thoughts on that and explain the difference between the viability of a league like this and why it barely affects college basketball. The second half of the podcast (27:30) focuses on the wild story from earlier in the week: former Louisville assistant Dino Gaudio was charged with extortion after he made threats to his boss, Chris Mack, after Mack did not renew Gaudio's contract. Again: WILD STORY.
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| 0:56.9 | I'm assuming most people are unfamiliar and not many keep up with high school softmores, |
| 1:09.4 | but Matt is a 6-9 forward ranked second in the class of 2023. |
| 1:19.9 | ESPN's Adrian Wojznarowski is reporting that each player is signing a two-year deal worth |
| 1:26.4 | seven figures, which means they're going to spend their junior and senior years of high |
| 1:30.6 | school making a million dollars each minimum. So, for a while now, we've had professional |
| 1:37.3 | leagues outside of this country, places like Australia, Italy, China, learning elite |
| 1:41.9 | prospects away from college. Then last year, the G-League Ignite program was created and |
| 1:47.7 | secured commitments from Projected Top 5 picks, Jalen Green and Jonathan Kaminga, among |
| 1:53.1 | others. Now, there is a new league, overtime elite, which describes itself as a transformative |
| 1:58.6 | new league that offers the world's most talented young basketball players what it claims |
| 2:02.7 | is a better pathway to becoming professional athletes. The league, which by the way, |
| 2:08.2 | is financially backed by, among others, Jeff Bezos, Drake, Kevin Durant, Carmelo |
| 2:12.5 | Anthony. It's going to offer year-round development program and an academic program. It's going |
| 2:18.4 | to be based in Atlanta and it'll feature up to 30 high school juniors and seniors each |
| 2:22.4 | year. They're going to play against each other and against external competition and each |
| 2:26.2 | player will be guaranteed a minimum salary of $100,000 and also be allowed to earn revenue |
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