Greg Brown Retweets Tweet About Him Coming to Michigan
We can still dream, right?
Sorry, I don't know how to embed tweets, but this is what it looked like.
April 16th, 2020 at 10:20 PM ^
Wont happen. Better chance we sign Adam Miller.
April 16th, 2020 at 10:45 PM ^
Chances of Miller have also gone down since Ayo Dosunmu declared for the NBA draft
Edit: nvermind, he hasn’t hired an agent and is just testing so far
Dosunmu sounded pretty confident that he'd be staying in the draft.
This is long before he gets his evaluation back, however
April 17th, 2020 at 10:37 AM ^
Mock drafts are so inconsistent on Ayo that I honestly have no idea where he's gonna go. Some have him as an early 2nd rounder, some have him as a mid 2nd rounder and some big boards have him not even close to being drafted. However, going undrafted also hasn't stopped some players from still staying in the draft. Some just wanna start making money in the G League so we'll see what happens.
And knowing our luck, Ayo is going to be one of those guys who stays in the draft regardless of possibly going undrafted
April 16th, 2020 at 10:24 PM ^
That would be possibly the most singularly entertaining signing we’ve had since ... Webber?
April 16th, 2020 at 11:50 PM ^
No, Webber was #1.
Let's all just wait, don't get trolled again.
Yes, let's wait. However, that would blow my mind: having two "sure thing" (or surer thing) guys end up elsewhere, and having Brown come to Michigan. That'd blow my mind.
April 16th, 2020 at 10:31 PM ^
I'd much rather have Brown than either Christopher or Todd. His film is reminiscent of the Fab Five.
I pray JH has the full court press here.
Reading the SI article they make point that he wants to win in his one year of college .... That would favor K and us over Texas.
JH should push the return of two NBA talents in Wagner and Livers. I like our chances better now.
I would take Christopher over the others in a heartbeat. Our backcourt is a huge ?. He would answer it resoundingly. And if he played well here, it really opens the door for other top guards IMO
Did I miss something? Why do people keep referencing Livers as if he’s coming back?
Because his vlog "Livers Enzymes" has hinted that he's returning.
April 17th, 2020 at 10:42 AM ^
Anyone saying of those 3 that they would've wanted anyone but Christopher is just wrong. Despite being a top 10 player, I think he goes top 5 in the draft. Dude is NBA ready right now. Out of him, Todd, and Brown, he would've made the biggest impact at Michigan. Todd is still relatively raw and Brown is more of just a freak athlete who also needs some refining
April 16th, 2020 at 10:36 PM ^
I feel like this is their way of negotiating bigger bag $$$ with the other schools. Don’t get me wrong I’d love to have him. If you’ve listened to some of him and his dad’s interviews they do a great job of hitting all the notes to make it sound like it could happen.
April 16th, 2020 at 10:50 PM ^
I read it as he knows that will start the smoke on a whack of Michigan blog fires, but I am assuming he was just thinking on winning a National Title, and most like a bigger bag, all and all, it’s some good days work. Recruiting.....
The kid retweeted someone calling him "the best athletic player this year".
That's not trolling. It's not because Michigan was mentioned in the tweet. Come on, he's a kid retweeting praise from fans. It's silly to read more into it than that.
April 17th, 2020 at 11:09 AM ^
Bigger bag $$$ than what the G-League can offer? If I'm definitely entering the 2021 NBA Draft, I'd rather go the G-League route and get guaranteed money.
April 16th, 2020 at 10:49 PM ^
You guys are into sadomasochsim, aren't ya?!
I thought that was a prerequisite to being a UM fan.
April 16th, 2020 at 10:50 PM ^
He might go the G league route: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamzagoria/2020/04/16/after-landing-jalen-green-and-isaiah-todd-nba-g-league-is-courting-other-prep-stars-including-greg-brown-kai-sotto/
Texas fans about to know how Michigan fans feel, rumor is G league offered him 400k: https://247sports.com/college/texas/Article/Greg-Brown-III-college-basketball-recruiting-G-League-option-April-24-decision-Texas-Longhorns-146146085/
April 16th, 2020 at 10:54 PM ^
G-League “landing” these guys...cool...
April 16th, 2020 at 11:09 PM ^
If he could get a contract that would pay even if basketball is postponed this winter that may honestly be a smarter decision than seeing what your meal card gets you in quarantine at a university. That said, please go BLUE!
April 16th, 2020 at 11:14 PM ^
Not sure why you'd go to Texas or Michigan if the G-League is offering $300k+ salaries. Slam dunk decision, really.
April 16th, 2020 at 11:30 PM ^
10,000% agree. If I'm a one-and-done, and my two options are...
A) Fuck around with NCAA nonsense and classes (even the fake online ones).
2) Get paid $400k for a year of NBA-caliber draft prep.
...there's no way in hell I'm picking the former.
$400k is the equivalent of a full ride for one year of work. Going to college would be a bad decision. Even if he was stuck in the G league for 4 years before going pro he’d be $1.6M ahead. That’s real money.
I don’t know much about the G league and their new plan to pay one and done types 400k but I’m guessing if they don’t make the NBA after year one, they aren’t getting offered another 400k for year 2 in the G league
April 17th, 2020 at 10:15 AM ^
Good point. Not sure how it works, but Iggy is getting like $900k and is bouncing between the knicks and G league. So an elite player is worth something. Though according to this players like Todd get $125,000. https://gleague.nba.com/professionalpath/
April 17th, 2020 at 12:05 PM ^
Counterpoint though would be injury issues. Player goes to G-league, blows out knee (is contract guaranteed?), basketball future could be done. I believe a lot/most of the the larger schools now offer players the option to come back to school and finish degrees after leaving early. It would be a nice hedge against injury or other setbacks...although I'm sure many are already getting nice supplemental income under the table they do go for a year or two to "play school". As someone else mentioned, a guarantee for the school to honor $400k for a Michigan degree would be a nice insurance policy to have in your pocket as a backup plan in case a player bailed after a year to take a run at the NBA.
April 17th, 2020 at 12:10 AM ^
Dude. Haven't you heard how much players get with their 100k plus out of state tuition, room and board, and other benefits? Sounds as good as 300k according to about half of this board.
Literally nobody in the history of this board has said that room, board, and tuition has a value equivalent to $300k.
Re-read it, you're missing it.
April 17th, 2020 at 10:19 AM ^
I've made that argument, but it was in the context of players being paid/not paid in college only and certainly not G-League/Overseas vs. College.
April 17th, 2020 at 11:38 AM ^
So, if you sign under this G League program the deal is you aren't eligible for the NBA draft, can't be drafted during your signing year, and you are owned by no NBA team until drafted. You get up to $500k for the season plus academic and mentorship benefits, which, ironically enough, are provided under this agreement through Arizona State University, yeah, the same school that signed Josh Christopher.
Last year, the league offered a top salary of $125k under this program and got no takers with three prospective high school enrollees deciding last October the Australia pro league was a better option. One of the key reasons the kids didn't stay home to play before becoming draft eligible was because they couldn't choose the team they would play for.
Because the NBA funds this program, and because it's aimed primarily at developing a limited number of bench players --only two two-way contracts are permitted per team in the 28-team league-- and less than 40 players a year are typically called up, this is mostly about research and development. Understand that regular G league roster players, mostly former college players who were either not drafted or failed to make an NBA roster, get paid up to $35k a season or more depending on a variety of NBA roster bonus incentives during call-ups and preseason league games, these undrafted rookie prep players are now kings of this pro circuit.
Imagine you've played four years of college ball before huge crowds at schools like Michigan, Duke or Kentucky, then played a schedule of 60 or more pro games a year through a variety of small cities and rural towns from Maine to Wisconsin to northern California, and you are getting paid a fraction of what some untested 18-year-old is getting paid just to keep him as a future chip in the NBA draft, how do you feel about playing with and competing against this guy?
He hasn't played a minute of organized college or pro ball on a regular basis, and yet his potential weighed against yours, in arenas where game performance on a nightly basis are witnessed in mostly empty arenas and then instantly forgotten, how would you feel about this brand and draft-building exercise?
It is for us regular folks who have student loan interest to pay for a million years.
April 17th, 2020 at 12:34 AM ^
College chicks.
Yeah, man, those pro bball players always have a tough time getting dates.
April 16th, 2020 at 10:51 PM ^
Yeah, why not get my hopes up only to have them again dashed upon yonder rocks?
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I'm in!
April 16th, 2020 at 10:56 PM ^
Don't fucking do this to me Greg!
April 16th, 2020 at 11:33 PM ^
I think ‘retweets tweets’ is kind of redundant redundant
Retweet is a verb.
Tweet is a noun.
Username checks out. I didn’t say it was improper English, you can’t retweet anything besides a tweet, so saying that you retweeted a tweet is redundant redundant
April 16th, 2020 at 11:42 PM ^
When will this fan base learn?
April 16th, 2020 at 11:46 PM ^
Should wake up to Hello Greg Miller post in AM ?
April 17th, 2020 at 12:33 AM ^
Only if Brown and Miller have that quick a courtship.
NTTAWWT
April 17th, 2020 at 12:14 AM ^
Pretty sure we could all pitch in and get him 400k. I’ll start with 1k. Who else is in?
April 17th, 2020 at 12:34 AM ^
I’m in. 1K
April 17th, 2020 at 12:52 AM ^
I’m in! I say we start a go fund me and tell the ncaa to get fucked
We start a gofundme called commit to Michigan
1) that pays his dad
2) only pays out in March of next yea
We’d probably have to raise 1 million to compete with G league + endorsements
Whitmer won't let me spend any of my money on anything else, so I'm in!