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It's the off-season still so let's talk about something not that important. G League Ignite is a relatively new experiment brining some of the youngest talent into professional basketball. Many pro-prospects use it as an alternative to college basketball. It's existed for three years. How well is it doing?
On the basis of pure wins and loses over its first 3 seasons the team is 25-34. Seem pretty poor.
However it's real job is developing NBA talent not winning G League games. Here are the players drafted so far.
In my opinion almost all these guys are disappointing, but I do think Ignite deserves a bit of leeway for the covid shortened seasons resulting in less development. I'm sure launching a program like this during lockdown was hard.
That said Scoot is the big star from this year's class and so far seems good.
So thoughts. How do you all think the experiment is going? If I were a serious NBA prospect I'd still prefer my development opportunities at high Division I, but thar could shift as Ignite improves its program.
On the basis of pure wins and loses over its first 3 seasons the team is 25-34. Seem pretty poor.
However it's real job is developing NBA talent not winning G League games. Here are the players drafted so far.
In my opinion almost all these guys are disappointing, but I do think Ignite deserves a bit of leeway for the covid shortened seasons resulting in less development. I'm sure launching a program like this during lockdown was hard.
That said Scoot is the big star from this year's class and so far seems good.
So thoughts. How do you all think the experiment is going? If I were a serious NBA prospect I'd still prefer my development opportunities at high Division I, but thar could shift as Ignite improves its program.
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