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Quick Take: College Basketball's Transfer Portal Madness | Former NBA Draft Pick Heads to Baylor · Height Differential

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  Baylor signing James Naji, who was drafted by the Detroit
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  Pistons and the 2023 draft with the first pick.
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  He was then traded to Boston, then traded to the Knicks in the
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  trade that involved Karl Anthony Towns, Dante Vidi, Vincenzo and
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  Julius Randall included in a trade with All Stars, and now
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  he's signing with Baylor. Ineligible immediately.
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  Eligible immediately on top of it.
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  Can play in the spring semester. Explain it.
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  I can't, I mean, I honestly, I can't.
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  And you know, a lot of people want to blame Baylor or Scott
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  Drew or, you know, like Louisville and Pat Kelsey took a
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  kid from the G League and there's a couple other kids from
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  the G League that are that are following that same route.
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  But it's not their fault. I mean, they're playing within
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  the rules. It's that there are right now
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  doesn't seem to be any rules. Like it doesn't seem to be any
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  rules. There's no, and I think that's
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  what most of these college coaches, coaches, Tom Izzo and
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  you've heard John Calipari's comments, you know, recently.
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  I think they're more looking at the NCAA for leadership and
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  guidance and there's just nothing there right now.
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  So the NCAA doesn't want to get sued a million times.
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  And the easiest way for them to not get sued a million times is
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  to just say you're eligible. It's just gotten out of hand.
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  I mean, like, I don't see how you can be involved in official
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  league business in the top professional league in the
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  world. Like you've been traded in and
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  then go back to college. And look, and if he's an
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  American born player, he couldn't do this, He couldn't do
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  this. It's and it's.
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  Just looking at it on the surface makes 00 sense.
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  Yeah, something that would never have been, couldn't even imagine
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  it three years ago. But to their defence, if you're
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  going to let, if they're going to let you get this guy, you go
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  get it and he wants to don't play and you got the money to
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  pay. Yeah, I mean, what did?
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  Scott. I mean, he never know.
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  They told us he could play, so I'm happy.
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  Yeah. I mean, he never, never played a
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  college game. It's not like like there's a lot
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  of teams currently that have professional basketball players
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  on their, on their college rosters from, you know, leagues
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  in Germany, leagues in Turkey, leagues in Australia, like all
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  these overseas leagues that these players have played
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  professionally in Greece and etcetera that have been eligible
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  and have been playing, you know, for a year or two now.
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  So it's the same type of deal. It's just the NBA is just looked
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  at as the, the high, I mean, as it should be.
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  It's it's the top of the top. It's the greatest professional
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  league in the world. But there's no really no
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  difference between professionals from overseas playing in a
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  professional in the American professional league playing.
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  It's the same logic. Yeah, I mean, every, everything
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  changed obviously in 2021. And we knew, I mean, that it was
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  going to kind of be the wild, Wild West when the whole NIL
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  thing went went into effect. I mean, the whole point was for
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  people to be able to get paid for doing sponsorships and to
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  sign autographs and they should be able to get paid for that,
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  right. But now it's just, it's blank
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  checks, it's collectives, it's and there's nobody that is
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  regulating anything. Now there's no collective
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  bargaining agreement. It is kind of, it's chaos.
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  Good for this kid, for Baylor. He's probably not getting paid
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  that much. He's going to go make more
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  playing college basketball then he is as a professional and
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  that's the way most of these kids are that that are doing
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  this. Yeah, there needs to be some
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  sort. As are his rights owned.
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  So like this kid from Baylor, are his rights owned by an NBA
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  team? Like who was he with the Wolves?
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  Already been through the. Draft.
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  Oh no, that's what I'm saying. It's like, so if he's.
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  I would say the Knicks have his. Rights.
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  So the Knicks. OK, so if he's good.
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  I don't know for a fact. If he's good, does he just re
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  enter the draft? And if you're the Knicks and
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  you're like, hold on now. Like you don't just get him.
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  This whole thing how does? It work.
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  How does it work if you I don't? Know I don't.
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  This one doesn't make any sense. Well then the NBA.
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  But the NBA has to come out and say something then too.
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  It's like if this kid does come back, like he has to go back to
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  the team that he left would be my guess.
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  Well, and then you're telling me before we get on, I didn't even
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  know about this. Trenton Flowers, who's played a
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  game for the Bulls this year, played six games for the
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  Clippers last year, is looking to get back in the college
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  hoops. He just played on December 7th
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  in an actual NBA game, but he's never played in college.
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  Like all these kids that are coming have never played college
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  basketball and. Like it's a degree, even a
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  thought in any. Of this, no, not at all.
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  Not even. It's not even in the thought
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  process. No.
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  And, and that's what Calipari's point was, if you have a kid
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  that transfers, transfers 4 different times, is that kid
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  going to get a degree? It's impossible.
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  It's impossible for you to transfer four different times
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  and have everything transfer over and all your credits match
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  up and this and that and for you to get a degree.
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  And, and his point was spot on. It's all about following the
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  money. The college degree does not
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  matter. Nobody's thinking about that.
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  And. He made a lot of good points.
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  He did. I mean, let's be fair, like he
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  used to be a way ahead of the game back in the day.
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  And now it's a level playing field.
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  And then you get a little perturbed a little bit, right.
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  But it is unfair. Like somebody was in this spot
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  on Baylor that was going to get playing Tom.
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  And now you're getting you're getting stepped over in the
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  middle of the season. Oh, that's, yeah, that's what
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  it's really hurting. It's it's hurting a lot of high
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  school kids that aren't getting going to get opportunities to
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  play college basketball that they would have gotten past.
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  Or if they get opportunities, it's going to be at a lesser
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  school. And then the Cal talks about how
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  he's the only idiot that's recruiting high school kids
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  because that's what he wants to do because he loves helping out
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  their families and changing their lives.
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  And how most, most schools, their chances to go into the NBA
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  is less than 1%. But if you play for me, it's,
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  it's better. And that's why I'm still
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  recruiting high school kids. You can recruit 2728 year olds
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  that have already been in the league.
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  Would you rather have that than an 18 year old?
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  Yes, so when LeBron LeBron James never played a a a minute of
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  college basketball, so it 40 whatever age he is that he
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  decides to hang it up. Come on, come on back to bring
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  him to college. See.
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  I mean, according to this, he can.
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  Do it you imagine LeBron James playing college basketball?
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  I mean saying. He could do it.
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  And if we had a little more like Kyle went on for seven minutes
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  and had a bunch of ideas, I'd like to break them down a little
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  more in detail because I do think he had like, if you get 5
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  years to play Four Seasons, I agree with that 100%.
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  I agree too. And I love the idea of the fact
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  that you go to the same school for four years, then you get a
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  fifth year. Like, I love that because that's
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  what I miss the most about college hoops is the continuity
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  and getting to, say, getting to see players grow from freshman
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  to the senior year with the same staff, you know, limiting
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  transfers. I think that should be the case.
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  Now, if your coach leaves, then that grants you maybe another
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  one. Yeah, but if you leave twice
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  with the coach not leaving, then you have to sit out like you
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  used to. There needs to be some sort.
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  There needs to be guidance, rules, guidance.
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  Also pick NIL or pick transfer portal.
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  Maybe you don't get both You you signed with the team out of high
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  school, three-year. Commitment.
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  Oh, I mean I that's, I mean, I think you can write, I mean you
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  should be able to write those into NIL contracts.
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  But they're not doing it. They're not, I know they're not,
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  but I, they should. But as kid may not, may not sign
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  that because he doesn't want to be restricted like that.
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  But if you're looking for, you know, a $4 million deal or
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  $3,000,000 deal, you can sign it.
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  We'll give it to you, but you need to be here for three years.
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  Yeah. I mean, we've seen, we've seen
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  kids sign deals and not play at all.
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  Yeah. I mean, it's just when there's
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  no rules, when there's no rules, I don't know.
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  It's just it's and this is going to continue to happen.
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  It's going to get to continue. Get it more wild?