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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Teenage Prospects to Australia? News, PHI/CLE

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Click to subscribe via RSS feed or iTunes. Could Australia be the place for American prospects instead of college?   Then we catch up on the rest of the news around the league, and do a detailed breakdown of Cleveland/Philadelphia as the Sixers take...

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0:00.0

End of the week edition of the pod here got some news to get to also going to talk about that Sixers Caves game

0:06.5

Which I thought was really fascinating on a number of levels the Sixers pulling it out with a plum

0:12.1

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0:23.1

Let's hit the news first here

0:24.9

And where I wanted to start it was some interesting news reported by John and Cavoni that the NBL the Australian

0:32.5

Prolegial recall that Terrence Ferguson now of the thunder played there last year became the 21st overall pick when he did not want to or

0:40.2

Could not perhaps go to college and the idea here is that they're gonna create something called the next stars program

0:47.3

They'll add an extra roster spot strictly for draft eligible players and those players will get a hundred thousand

0:53.4

Australian dollars which will be funded directly by the league

0:56.3

There's a number of things that are interesting about this one is used to only be able to have three four in players per team

1:01.8

And it didn't really make sense to waste a spot on an untested danger the atelaid 36er is actually one the NBL last year

1:10.7

And Ferguson didn't play much of a really the only average 4.6 points

1:14.6

It wasn't really a part of that they won anyway and they developed him well

1:17.6

But this now provides an incentive with this extra roster spot

1:20.8

And do you think Danny that this will be an option for more?

1:26.7

USTH I think it will be but the swing factor here as it is in almost all of these or shoe companies because the money that they're offering is

1:34.9

About $78,000 US which is you know, it's not terrible

1:38.8

But it's not great

1:39.8

But shoe companies in this Gavoni talked about this in the piece can be a very important element was with

1:45.1

Emanuel Mudié when he went to China was for Terrence Ferguson there

1:48.8

And so if they decide to kind of if they're like hey either we're game with this or even we want to encourage this

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