#14 Houston got a road win over Oklahoma St 60-47 yesterday. Leading the scoring for the Cougars was J'Wan Roberts with 20 points, LJ Cryer had 18 and Milos Uzan had 12. For the Cowboys, Brandon Newman led the way with 12 points and Robert Jennings had 10. Houston went a perfect 6/6 from the free throw line and went 6/20 from 3. Houston with the win goes to 9-3 and Oklahoma St falls to 8-4.
Over the many years that top prep basketball players have been recruited, the vast majority chose to go the only traditional route available to them: play college basketball. Some opted to play overseas. For whatever reason, we have seen that the college route is not for every player. Knowing this, the NBA stepped through their development league. In the fall of 2018, the NBA G League announced Select Contracts of $125,000 for elite recruits, including opportunities for basketball development, life skills and academic scholarship starting with the 2019-2020 season. With all of that said, no players from the graduating class of 2019 opted to take part. So the G League set their sights on the class of 2020. As more schools across the country have been exposed in the FBI's investigation into college basketball recruiting, the G League has made their pitch: play and get paid fairly. On April 16, 2020, the G League announced a raised salary for prospects and a one-year development pro...
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