mystro
Years ago
Up and coming teenager Steven Adams has just signed with the Wellington saints for the upcoming NZNBL season. Steven is going to play 1 season here before he heads off to Pittsburgh University on a Scholarship.
Full Article
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/basketball/4623859/One-size-20-step-to-Saints-giant-leap-for-NBA/
SSBC
Years ago
is the NZNBL a profe3ssional league thus making him ineligible to play NCAA
paul
Years ago
Only if he gets paid. Some talk of him considering being a Breakers DP next season before he heads to the US.
mystro
Years ago
He is playing as the Saints Development Player and not getting paid to satisfy NCAA eligibility criteria.
melvin corpuscle
Years ago
Have the NCAA rules changed ? Under recent rules it didn't matter if you were unpaid - if ANY player on the team got paid it was considered a pro team. That's why some abl teams signed statements saying they wouldn't pay anyone - maintaining amateur status and allowing their abl kids to still go to D1 colleges ...
curtley
Years ago
it's a strange rule. Hopfully he gets the chance to go over to the states.
mystro
Years ago
He has already signed a letter of intent with Pittsburgh University I believe and his mentor in NZ is Saints legend Kenny McFadden who will have done all the homework regarding eligibility for NCAA.
paul
Years ago
Yes, the old rules have changed, a player can now play in a pro comp as long as they dont get paid. I imagine the NCAA website has the finer points of the rules somewhere.
isnt that the reason enes kanter was inelligible for kentucky this season?
MACDUB
Years ago
No Enes Kanter got paid.
I believe that the NCAA allows these players playing in pro-leagues to be taken care of by the club for "every-day" costs such as food, transport, etc.
However In Kanter's case, he got that much money from the club (in the hundreds of thousands) that there was no way that that could be intepreted as "everyday living costs".
This was from ESPN:
"The NCAA student-athlete reinstatement staff decided the 6-foot-11 Kanter received benefits above his actual and necessary expenses while playing for a club basketball team in Turkey. The NCAA defines actual and necessary expenses as those directly necessary for practice and competition on a team."
Kentucky tried to appeal the decision but to no avail.
dud
Years ago
The rule changed last season and players can play in a league like SEABL (not get paid) and can still play college ball.
mystro
Years ago
He is playing NZNBL to get more experience at a higher more competitive level before he plays in the States. Not saying the NZNBL is a good league or anything but it does attract guys like Ballinger who Steven will get a chance to go at in preparation for the athletic players he will have to guard and compete against in America. He's still at high school.
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