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Those dudes will be okay. They may not be NBA players, but they’ll find a way to carve out a living doing some **** regular people don’t do. Thank social media for that.
Gelo was dead in the water from the beginning. He was never going to be a high-level European or NBA player regardless. The only reason he got a scholarship to UCLA was the cuz it was a package deal with Melo. At least he could have went to UCLA and got his education and played four years. You are right though, I hope the jba and big baller brand or making money, we have no way to really verify if they're turning a profit off of these ventures.
Gelo is the one that they might regret taking this route with. He has a lot more potential than Gelo, and he might even have more potential than Lonzo.
Taking him out if competitive basketball at 16 very well might ruin his NBA chances. He's not playing AAU, high level high school basketball or overseas. He's never going to break the bad habits he has (cherry picking, jacking up awful shots and not playing defense etc.) playing against players is much better than.
If his aspiration is to be a social media star, then by all means he's on the right track but if his goal is to one day be a lottery pick in the NBA he's going about it all wrong.