Naas Cunningham

[clyde21]

signing with OTE - not eligible until '24

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[Duke4life831]

From what I read, he isnt going to get paid from OTE this year. Which will keep him eligible to go to college next year and that is his current plan.

[clyde21]

From what I read, he isnt going to get paid from OTE this year. Which will keep him eligible to go to college next year and that is his current plan.

he just doesn't want to play in HS again pretty much

[Duke4life831]

From what I read, he isnt going to get paid from OTE this year. Which will keep him eligible to go to college next year and that is his current plan.

he just doesn't want to play in HS again pretty much

Yup. He can collect endorsement checks and stuff this year. So ya why not? He already knows he wants to be a professional basketball player. Might as well let him start going down the best path for that.

My guess is he does OTE for a year, get some cash from endorsements doing that for a year. Then go to a big time college for a year to collect big NIL money and get the marketing you get from a big school. Go to a Duke/UK/Kansas and get watched by a million+ people every game and have a good chance to have a deep tourney run which is a marketing dream where you got 15+ million watching games.

Seems like the ideal path to go to the NBA in my opinion. Why waste one more year of high school when you dont need to.

[azcatz11]

From what I read, he isnt going to get paid from OTE this year. Which will keep him eligible to go to college next year and that is his current plan.

he just doesn't want to play in HS again pretty much

Yup. He can collect endorsement checks and stuff this year. So ya why not? He already knows he wants to be a professional basketball player. Might as well let him start going down the best path for that.

My guess is he does OTE for a year, get some cash from endorsements doing that for a year. Then go to a big time college for a year to collect big NIL money and get the marketing you get from a big school. Go to a Duke/UK/Kansas and get watched by a million+ people every game and have a good chance to have a deep tourney run which is a marketing dream where you got 15+ million watching games.

Seems like the ideal path to go to the NBA in my opinion. Why waste one more year of high school when you dont need to.

Are IVY League players eligible for NIL money?

[Duke4life831]

he just doesn't want to play in HS again pretty much

Yup. He can collect endorsement checks and stuff this year. So ya why not? He already knows he wants to be a professional basketball player. Might as well let him start going down the best path for that.

My guess is he does OTE for a year, get some cash from endorsements doing that for a year. Then go to a big time college for a year to collect big NIL money and get the marketing you get from a big school. Go to a Duke/UK/Kansas and get watched by a million+ people every game and have a good chance to have a deep tourney run which is a marketing dream where you got 15+ million watching games.

Seems like the ideal path to go to the NBA in my opinion. Why waste one more year of high school when you dont need to.

Are IVY League players eligible for NIL money?

I could be wrong, but I believe reading an article awhile back talking about how happy Ivy League schools were about the NIL. They felt like without being able to give scholarships out, with their big connections to alumni NIL was going to be a great way for them to even up the game some. So I believe they can.

[clyde21]

Yup. He can collect endorsement checks and stuff this year. So ya why not? He already knows he wants to be a professional basketball player. Might as well let him start going down the best path for that.

My guess is he does OTE for a year, get some cash from endorsements doing that for a year. Then go to a big time college for a year to collect big NIL money and get the marketing you get from a big school. Go to a Duke/UK/Kansas and get watched by a million+ people every game and have a good chance to have a deep tourney run which is a marketing dream where you got 15+ million watching games.

Seems like the ideal path to go to the NBA in my opinion. Why waste one more year of high school when you dont need to.

Are IVY League players eligible for NIL money?

I could be wrong, but I believe reading an article awhile back talking about how happy Ivy League schools were about the NIL. They felt like without being able to give scholarships out, with their big connections to alumni NIL was going to be a great way for them to even up the game some. So I believe they can.

yes they can, but par for the course for ivy league douchebags, they have their own spin on it

https://gocrimson.com/documents/2021/9/2/Harvard_Athletics_NIL_Policy.pdf?id=6914