Greg Brown Retweets Tweet About Him Coming to Michigan

Submitted by BursleyHall82 on April 16th, 2020 at 10:14 PM

We can still dream, right?

Sorry, I don't know how to embed tweets, but this is what it looked like.

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njvictor

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

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Alumnus93

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.  

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njvictor

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

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goodfella96

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. 

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MgoKY

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.

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charblue.

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?

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