Why would playing in the NBDL for a year compromise his shot at millions? I assume the NBA teams would be just as well aware of him and just as likely to draft him out of the NBDL. (Or as others are suggesting, out of Europe.)
I suppose being BMOC for a year and playing in the Final Four is more glamorous then a year in the bushes, and less stressful than a year in Europe, but on the minus side you run the risk of being mocked for cheating on the SAT.
Why should Tebow be obligated to pay for the girls’ wiffleball team?
The D-League is an NBA minor league. You don’t get drafted out of it. There are two ways to get into the D-League: be signed as a free agent, or be assigned to the D-League by an NBA team. Under the current rules, the second method was not an option for Rose. So instead of signing with an NBA team for an NBA-type salary, he would have to sign for whatever a D-League player gets, which is much, much less.
If you are chosen in the first round of the NBA draft, you get a guaranteed contract worth at least a few million dollars over as much as three years. You get no such guarantee in the D-League, so if he played like crap or sustained a career-ending injury, he would have lost a lot of money.
Couldn’t the same thing happen in college ball?
Of course it could. But college is a more favorable environment: you get to play lesser college players, not guys scraping for a spot in the big league, and NBA scouts get obsessed with potential.
That’s true and probably fewer games per year too.