blueblood wrote:Zegarowski should give our players pause. Great kid and had an excellent career at Creighton. He was projected as a solid second round pick. He appeared to be a lock. NIL was uncertain at that point and he left. He ends up not getting picked and has gone through 2 years of being paid $40-$60 thousand playing in the G league. He is making less than our current roster. By a lot. He's living the dream, still has a shot but he isn't making much and it will probably end soon. If he would have gone to Europe he would have made more but if he wants the NBA its really hard to do that from Europe.
There's a reason our coaches are recruiting our current players harder than they are 5 star high school players. They are proven and we have a real good shot at keeping them. I can see us losing any one of our starting 5 to the likes of Arizona or Texas because they could double their pay, but not to Europe or the D league.
I agree with the premise of your post, but Z did get drafted in the 2nd round (49th pick). Now if NIL were a thing when Ty-Shon decided to declare and not get drafted, that would be an awful decision financially now.
