Anonymous
Years ago
NBL Next Stars Program (the 4th 'import')
So a couple of months ago we heard about this program where the NBL will pay 8 would be college kids $100k to play and develop on the NBL.
Any idea how this is going? Seems to have been a bit forgotten about when people are predicting lineups for next season. I know the season is still ages away, but for all involved you'd think it'd be useful to sort out there placements as soon as possible before teams get too established in free agency.
What now if the Wildcats get stuck with some PG with Martin/Norton already? What if Brisbane get stuck with a big man with there number of bigs? etc etc.
I'm not expecting these kids to play huge minutes but you'd think they'd want to get some sort of playing time to help develop.
Also what happens if some of these guys are actually young studs and could play some quality minutes? Brisbane could be handed someone who would be a decent back up big, but they've already signed Hodgson/Vukona and could have signed just 1 and used that $$ for another position.