There’s been a lot of debate over the years about whether or not the NCAA should pay their players. College athletes face ineligibility if they take any form of gifts or money but they’re also unable to work while playing sports and attending school full time. Many are faced with a conundrum as to what to do and many athletes have taken money and gifts under the table. Top prospect Emmanuel Mudiay famously chose to forego college and play basketball overseas in China to provide for his family and will now enter the 2015 NBA Draft. There’s been questions as to whether or not other ballers will follow in his footsteps (although he’s not the first). Well now they may have even more opportunities to do so.
“College is not for every young man that is trying to use basketball to provide a better situation for their families,” Brown says.
“Our innovative model targets the McDonald’s All-Americans who are projected first round prospects by NBA scouts and general managers. This concept allows for the highly touted player to bypass college and immediately become a paid professional. We are able to offer competitive salaries averaging around $700k to the highly touted McDonald’s All-Americans who are typically ‘one-and-done’ players and $400k for college underclassmen. The Dealers niche will be based on giving basketball players a different option than what is presently offered in America. Before this, underclassmen had to either play college ball or go overseas. Venturing to Europe will not be a necessity when a U.S. based organization will play top European teams.”
Brown says the 2015-16 season will be an inaugural one for the Dealers, and that the management group has already reached out to some McDonald’s All-American players with offers.
“We don’t see any problems in landing the right kids. Now, I’m not going to say we’ll have 10 of the top 25 kids this year, but I’m going to go on record as saying we’re going to have five,” Brown told Fox 5 News last week.
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Source: Sporting News
