That would be awesome, but we had the money to get a bunch of top tier guys that said no way.ESPN’s mock after last night’s lotto has Momcilovic at 35 and Moreno at 43.
If we have 8 mil for the pair, I think we get them.
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Knowing you have a really good shot at winning a title has to help I would think
That’s my feeling. If the Knicks were gonna draft me I’d return. I would never live in NYC.
We are going to be super screwed if he leaves. If he does and Thomas Haigh and the Florida bigs return not once, but twice. I’m convinced the basketball gods hate us now.
This draft is stacked though, just not as much as his position. I can’t believe he would be a mid-late first round pick yet. This is the same league that selected Anthony Bennett number one overall though.
Roughly 50% of first-round picks fail to get a second contract or extension offered by the specific team that drafted them. For mid-to-late first-round picks (picks 15-30), the odds are lower, with significantly fewer than half typically securing a long-term second contract with their original team. [1, 2, 3, 4]
True but two things that make this situation different are . . .
Bad I’d say. Usually a sign of a guarantee or real interest from a team.
Matt jones said Diallo was the second most expensive UK recruit in the NIL era.
I read a base of $2.5mil with incentives up to $3mil for year one and a pay jump for the 2nd year. I don't see how the $2.5 would make him #1, maybe the $3mil...
At this point I believe I would take pay based on games played. But that is just wishful thinking...
Oh geez.
Is that last bit true? This has him 4th if you sort by height. Still impressive, didn't realize he was that tall. His standing reach is up there too. I was a doubter, I'm starting to see stuff that may say first. I wonder if he grew.
Not to nit pick, but I think the word "incentives" is not what you meant maybe? "Incentives" falls under pay for play and is illegal under current NIL rules. However, "potential" earnings are legal and something UK does do. For instance if the University or some donor entity (with JMI licensing approval) decides to sell Diallo bobble heads, or mini basketballs, or jerseys, or t-shirts, or whatever, they can have a contract that provides Diallo a percentage of the sales of each individual piece of merch.
What does UK have to stand on?
Oh, someone is still pretending NIL is really NIL and not pay for play? The fiction lives?
Everyone else is breaking the rules, but as long as we still have Mitch at the helm, UK won't be breaking those rules. He's literally the hard charger at the front of the doing things by the book (including things from the Score Act that never passed) carrying the torch.
Good read. I posted a few years back during Cal's term here that all these first round picks are great but after watching a NBA GM explain the process one day, I remember what he said about kids with talent can go first round but it is that second contract that is the hardest.
My initial post was before all (like Suigi) had been measured.Is that last bit true? This has him 4th if you sort by height. Still impressive, didn't realize he was that tall. His standing reach is up there too. I was a doubter, I'm starting to see stuff that may say first. I wonder if he grew.
